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Thanks man, yeh it handles like a sack of shit lol

but coilovers, a lowered ride height and a strut brace should fix that.

im thinking some upgraded sway bars too, maybe just the rear to cut out that understeer if its not already fixed.

Got a call from andrew today, and he said the car's all, running well minus a small throttle issue that i know how to fix (needs idle air re-learn)

he was getting to tune it either this arvo or tomorro morning, either way, ill have it back on saturday, hopefully with about 250whp to go with it...

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update: got the car back form hyperdrive and its about 2/3 done, just need to iron out a few little issues.

namely injector o-rings, 'cooler piping (keeps blowing off dammit) and a small boost problem.

it made 212whp on 7psi, on a VERY basic tune, it has almost no ignition timing (less than 5deg across the board)

its fine to drive around atm but needs to go back there in the new year for a final tune once i can fix the issues.

so far (today) ive done the injectors, sorted out some decent cooler piping.

but now is wants to idle at like 2.5k rpm, which is a Stinger problem, caused due to me taking off the IM (and throttle body), so the throttle needs to be re-calibrated, but ive got no idea how to do that, ill leave it for andrew to do...

tune in mid January for a BIIIIG update (videos, dyno charts, etc...)

Been driving around for a few days now, maybe about 300kms in that week, and no issues apart from a high idle from a vacuum leak, fixed easily.

Going on holiday for two weeks down south and taking the Exy with me, 3 nd a half hour drive there and back on highway will sort out if there's any problems or not. all of that is cruising at 100-110kph, mostly under no load, so I can't see any problem arising, *touch wood* ill be fine. I'll monitor fuel economy closely too, hoping for about 10-11L per 100kms, considering I'm not exactly raping it everywhere with it not being 100% and being double demerits. That said, fuel economy was never my goal, I wouldn't have put a turbo kit on if it was lol

Merry Christmas and happy new year to everyone!

This year's bin amazing for the car and me, you guys have helped invaluably with this build, and I'm very thankful. Have a safe festive season, weather or not you believe/celebrate Christmas...

Cam.

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thanks fellas...

@ munt...

i know of 2 GTs in aus, both of which in NSW, one of which has had some mods and makes 211kws @ all four. through a CVT auto, on 13psi IIRC...

but yeh they're soo rare, only 500 were ever made, AND THEY'RE ALL AUTOS!!! :):rofl:

and theres no hope of a manual conversion kit either, cos the manual gearbox in the x-trails doesnt bolt up to the SRVET's bell housing. unless you want to fork out $$$ for a custom bell housing that is... :)

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I have to say that I have never liked X-Trails... But this is one I could live with :(

Nice work, thinking outside the square and doing something that not many other people would even think of... Make sure you keep updating (I wanna see this when it's all finished).

Cheers :worship:

Hey rhys. Yeh things are all good.

Ive got a throttle problem, the fly-by-wire system is f**king around, and it wants to idle @ like 3k rpm, but I'm ditching it and putting an SR throttle body on next wednesday, the last few weeks have been searching around for parts (bracket, cable TB, TPS wiring etc...) Got most of them from trust ol' Ben @ KYP lol

It made 212whp on hyperdrive's rollers with a base tune and 7psi. Ive driven cars with 250+ whp and this feels soo much more than only 212, probs cos ive got 4 wheels to drive, a transfer case and, plus bigger tyres to turn. It's almost quick enough for me, i think 10 psi will be a good number im hoping ill be satisfied then. after i get this throttle system figured out, im gonna up the boost to 10, get andrew to finish the tune and wind in some more timing(providing its not pinging) + clean up the AFRs - they're all over the place...

Thinking of coming along to the next SAUWA cruise if people don't mind, so hopefully very soon after, ill take it down to motorplex and hope for some low 14s or 13s...

just some pics for y'all...

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installed some bonnet spacers for a cool look and bit o' heat treatment (yes it does work to get heat out of engine bay)

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ripped off that nismo sticker, dunno what i was thinking...

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this is that throttle cable i was talking about. its from a GTi-R (FWD SR), the bracket mounts on to the firewall perfectly. and to my suprose, there was a hole in the firewall already (oh joy!) p.s. excuse the cable tie, just needed to secure the cable for driving around before the TB...

[EDIT] the pics are thumbnails, click and get enjoy some fullscreen love!

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