Murray_Calavera

Everyone has their own definition of what is fun and what isn't. As a guess, people saying big power builds aren't fun on the street is because when driven around obeying the road rules, the big power car is slow as hell. Then when you want to use the 450kw, you can't put the power down. Finally when you do manage to put all 450kw down, it turns out your doing 150kph+ on the motorway...

Is it all being done under warranty?

Sounds like they were just selling their R35 brakes. The big bucks are in the carbon ceramic rotors, those are about $20,000. When you're going for max looks, gotta have those carbon ceramic brakes. I don't see Attkd selling a carbon ceramic option, so do you really have any other choice then the R35 kit at this point?

R35 GTR brakes with carbon ceramic rotors look the best for sure. https://www.alphaomegaracing.com/product/r35-gt-r-brembo-adapters/ https://www.amsperformance.com/product/alpha-performance-r35-gt-r-carbon-ceramic-brake-package/ Some say you can't put a price on looks. Others say that you can and it's about $35,000. But think of the value because really, the looks are priceless.

Rhymes with Bishitomo.

Couldn't hurt to post up the R33 wiring diagram again. R33_Wiring_Diagram.pdf

Lots of good advice in here already, so I'm probably just repeating what others have said. My 2c. If you are chasing lap time, I'd strongly recommend starting with the tyres first. Street tyres will want a different suspension setup, compared to semi's, compared to full slicks which all want something different. Once you've got the best track tyres your budget and class of racing will allow, then I would go about extracting the maximum performance from the tyres by setting up the suspension for what the tyres want.

The uploaded photo is pretty low res, so when I'm squinting at it what I've circled in yellow looks like rust to me.

Very sexy!

I suppose you don't need fancy gloves, but spending more gives increased comfort. Pre-curved fingers and external seams are nice. I use RPM XTech 2 gloves and think they are totally worth the price of admission.

Another vote here for half cage. Helps stiffen up the car nicely too.

Let us know what your thoughts are after you try out the gloves.

I've never played with them in person, probably a question for Invidia or the retailer.

Close, they are 200 cell.

I'll just leave these videos here...

So now you need to price in a manual conversion as well lol

Sounds good, I think I'm on the same page as you now. Working with your current list, I would consider going for the Link FuryX over the Xtremex. You'll want wideband o2 support, if you buy the Xtremex you'll need to buy a wideband controller which will likely cost more then the price difference between the 2 ECUs. Start having a think about what you are going to do fuel setup wise and what sensors you'll want to run. These costs can blow out crazy quickly. I'm not saying to do this, but just as an example of what you could do, all prices are from Haltech's website (because I'm a Haltech fanboy lol) - Fuel temp/pressure sensor $218 Oil temp/pressure sensor $218 Coolant temp/pressure sensor $218 Flex sensor $287 4 bar MAP sensor $219 Air temp sensor $59 Wideband o2 sensor $230 That's $1,449 just in sensors. It's a similar situation for the fuel system, it can get expensive surprisingly quickly. What brand of rail or will you keep it stock? What injectors? You could spend over 1k on the injectors alone. What fuel pressure reg? what lines will you use? You could use Kryptalon hose, it's about $100 a meter for -8 then suddenly your fittings are $50 a pop. Start adding up how many fittings you'll need and things get silly quickly. Of course there are lots of other expenses to consider, but off the top of my head those are the 2 that can be surprisingly expensive.

That price I listed was for a high flow turbo, have a closer look at the hypergear website. Sure a basic highflow starts at $950, but that means you don't want a ball bearing CHRA, you don't want to run high boost, you don't want the most powerful option. In any case, as long as mentally you have accepted that this journey is likely going to run you 20k, then it's fine for you to delude yourself that you can do it all for 6k. The reality is you'll just end up with a car that doesn't run due to missing XYZ parts and you can either set it back to stock or keep spending to finish it off. On a side note, I'm a little scared to ask but I am curious, what is the nasty china intake manifold can be had for $500?

Link Engine Management G4X Xtremex - $2,634.50 Hypergear high flow (tick options for big boy power, ball bearing CHRA, high pressure actuator) $2,070 Just those 2 parts are $4,704.50. How are you getting everything else on that list for $1,295.50?

https://www.efisolutions.com.au/3-port-mac-valve-boost-control-solenoid

If we consider these as factors, your car is currently stock, you buy a quality inlet and quality high mount exhaust manifold, you pay for tuning and wiring, I don't think you will pull this build off for less then 20k. If you go low mount, keep the stock inlet and exhaust manifolds, yeah it could be done for sub 20k. Things get a lot more affordable if you learn to wire up the car and learn to tune. Neither are hard things to do, just takes a bit of time to learn. If you were doing all of the work, wiring and tuning you might be able to pull off the high mount setup for 20k.

Are you happy to spend 20k on this build? It sounds like you'll be doing the mechanical work yourself and paying for any wiring and tuning involved? Is that correct?

The crank collar is an engine out job, is the engine currently in the bay? What are your thoughts on aiming for around 450kw? It will still be quite responsive and the high mount turbo and all the other parts will then make sense. The funny thing is, what you are describing to build vs a 450kw setup will be very similar in price.

I'm guessing you already found this option? https://www.prospeedracing.com.au/Invidia-Catted-Test-Pipe-Nissan-350Z-Z33-07-09/370Z-Z34/Infiniti-G37-V36/FX30/FX50/QX70-HS09N7ZTPC

Lets start taking bets. I'll put my money on high flow cats.