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Hanso

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Hey Leon, I have some good news regarding your oil leak mate; check PM's :D

I'm a little reluctant, as I will not take money out of Scotty's pocket on this one. If Scotty is ok with it; I may look at it.

The other issue is as Scotty has said; this one will not support maximum power, and you'll need to start again if you want to shoot higher than the 240odd kW mark.

Thanks Dale, that oil line should fix me up nicely. :cheers:

Fair enough on the intake production, but that power level would satisfy most guys (those that didn't want to go down the F-Con / Emanage path). Whoever decides to make them should get quite a few orders.

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Hey Leon, I have some good news regarding your oil leak mate; check PM's :D

I'm a little reluctant, as I will not take money out of Scotty's pocket on this one. If Scotty is ok with it; I may look at it.

The other issue is as Scotty has said; this one will not support maximum power, and you'll need to start again if you want to shoot higher than the 240odd kW mark.

I'm not worried mate, yours looks the goods if you can replicate it on the bench. It's only replacing the lower part anyway and requires you to use the stock rubber pipe right?

Personally I hate that rubber U bend (flow would be woeful) and decided to fabricate the whole intake in 3 inch, as the inlet of the turbo is where massive gains can be had. Obviously this only works if you have control of the ecu as Leon said, due to afm cut and requiring more fuel.

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I'm not worried mate, yours looks the goods if you can replicate it on the bench. It's only replacing the lower part anyway and requires you to use the stock rubber pipe right?

Personally I hate that rubber U bend (flow would be woeful) and decided to fabricate the whole intake in 3 inch, as the inlet of the turbo is where massive gains can be had. Obviously this only works if you have control of the ecu as Leon said, due to afm cut and requiring more fuel.

Ok mate; yeah it's not too complicated to reproduce in a jig, looks like I might have to fine tune it a little if there's a few to make.

It does use the rubber pipe; but it doesn't have to. I just needed the bottom section first up. I'm going to make the top part, then see how it goes.

Yours uses that extra diameter effectively as a "plenum" for the turbo, which has a couple of benefits; not the least of which is a big improvement in response.

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If thats the case Dale, why did you do it in 2.5"?

Just to avoid afm cut?

Because it was still a huge improvement over the stock piece, and I knew it would fit through the gap left by the stock piece.

A 3" version will not fit through that gap, and requires a 3" to 2.5" reducer off the flange, along with being much more problematic to route due to it's much larger diameter.

Standard mandrels are not tight enough to use; so you must either cut them tighter, or "Lobster Back" straight tube into tighter bends.

To fit the equivalent of 3" cross sectional area through there; would require fabricating a 2.5" version, then splitting it through multiple planes, then filling the gaps with sheetmetal and purge welding all over again. A lot of labour; a lot of cost.

So it wasn't going to be a simple afternoon's work.

Avoiding the AFM cut was a rather happy coincidence; I didn't really want to trip over it, because I can't tune around it yet, and I'm almost at the limit of my injectors.

Sometimes you're lucky; sometimes you ain't. This time I was.

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Not lucky, moar flow required mate. lol.

On this topic, those of you with the stock computer should be fine but if you run a Nismo, Impul or similar you should really chuck it on the dyno to make sure the injectors aren't maxing out. We don't want another Jetwrecker incident... The stock ecu has that fuel cut for a reason...

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I have done a bit of wrapping of the centre console, door pulls and rear upper tail lights. Install DRL's, LED parklights and swapped the Transmission tiptronic shift pattern to forward down, backward up a gear. Installed Nismo Springs lowered about 30mm.

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I have done a bit of wrapping of the centre console, door pulls and rear upper tail lights. Install DRL's, LED parklights and swapped the Transmission tiptronic shift pattern to forward down, backward up a gear. Installed Nismo Springs lowered about 30mm.

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Hey, the carbon wrap on your console looks sweet.

Was it difficult to get looking OK?

I have been looking at the terrible woodgrain in my Mrs' Maxima with aesthetic sadness for quite some time and this might help.

Even it was just black with a less defined 'weave'....

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I've been customising and building cars since ages ago, This was my first go at doing wrap vinyl, it will be better as there are bits I can notice that aren't good enuff and I will redo soon.

I removed all the parts to be wrapped, and used a hair dryer, as the heat gun was far too serious.

I will wrap the roof as I intend to put a roof rack on as well.

The wrap comes in carbon white, silver, black, charcoal, red, yellow, gold I think they have colours covered, and then there are normal colours and even change colour stuff.

I put it on because I had ordered the car with a single DIN for a NZ stereo and the facia was grey and did not match the brushed silver alloy of the

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Not "my" Stagea per se; but in any case.

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Flange is only tacked in this one as we needed to do a test fit prior to finish weld.

Fitted perfectly (once we had some tools)

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And baking prior to ceramic coating.

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So I did an oil change in preparation for this: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/402815-sauwa-skid-pan-day/

After having my car now for 25000 Kays and getting it serviced by pros to hopefully find any major issues I have confidence in the car now...

I no longer have confidence in mechanics though, my sump plug was finger tight, i just touched it with my 14 and it moved....

Explained the drips on my floor.

Also made an RB rookie mistake and spewed oil on my floor getting the oil filter out.

I thought I had it but my hand got jammed on the way up,

Spent another 20 minutes trying to clean up the front diff and steering rack while the kitty litter did its job on the floor..

Also also I know believe the service turbo cars at 5000 mantra.

The shit that came out of my sump after 8000 was like coal.

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So I did an oil change in preparation for this: http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/402815-sauwa-skid-pan-day/

After having my car now for 25000 Kays and getting it serviced by pros to hopefully find any major issues I have confidence in the car now...

I no longer have confidence in mechanics though, my sump plug was finger tight, i just touched it with my 14 and it moved....

Explained the drips on my floor.

Also made an RB rookie mistake and spewed oil on my floor getting the oil filter out.

I thought I had it but my hand got jammed on the way up,

Spent another 20 minutes trying to clean up the front diff and steering rack while the kitty litter did its job on the floor..

Also also I know believe the service turbo cars at 5000 mantra.

The shit that came out of my sump after 8000 was like coal.

What oil were you using Shane? Should have been fine if you used a good quality oil.

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Also made an RB rookie mistake and spewed oil on my floor getting the oil filter out. I thought I had it but my hand got jammed on the way up, Spent another 20 minutes trying to clean up the front diff and steering rack while the kitty litter did its job on the floor..

It will always drop oil on the diff and rails....always.

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