What Have You Done To Your Stagea Lately?

[zelda]

Nah plenum isn't painted, just gave it a hit with a scale remover and autosol haha..

Bov pipe is a 3" straight alloy, I picked up a couple of nipples and gave to the welder with the original pipe so he could re create the same angles etc came out really good imo.

However i do get a bit of flutter at lower boost with the kompact if I drop the throttle.. Anyone tried softer springs with success?

[scotty nm35]

Softer springs will help with the flutter, but it will open more at idle and cruise with vac behind it. If the flutter isn't bad just leave it, otherwise ring Turbosmart and get them to ship you the next softest spring.

Mine doesn't flutter at all, on the evo or the Stagea.

[zelda]

Meh screw it, just drive round full boost or no boost

Gas is at a low anyway and it is a weekend car

[zelda]

Softer springs will help with the flutter, but it will open more at idle and cruise with vac behind it. If the flutter isn't bad just leave it, otherwise ring Turbosmart and get them to ship you the next softest spring.

Mine doesn't flutter at all, on the evo or the Stagea.

Plus your on over 30psi bet it's pretty quick

[scotty nm35]

Plus your on over 30psi bet it's pretty quick

Actually makes more noise the less boost I spool the turbo to. Still almost silent using the stock airbox though, in both cars.

[Zedone]

Nissan factory aero wing

Yeah man, I'm after one, was wondering where he got it from. I reckon they are a nice subtle touch, you think so?

[Brick]

Yeah man, I'm after one, was wondering where he got it from. I reckon they are a nice subtle touch, you think so?

Yep I love it, my car has one. He cpuld be like me and had it come from factory like it

[Z33Fairlady]

And gave it a wipe.. Nice day for it

Hi Zach,

What specs are your wheels (size, width and offset)

[zelda]

Yeah man, I'm after one, was wondering where he got it from. I reckon they are a nice subtle touch, you think so?

Hey mate, this was a random score. I joined a Facebook group "stagea owners club" it's NZ based.

One of the lads on their was selling his car which has the spoiler and kindly offered it for swaps with an original and cash his way. I went straight to the ATM lol.

I know lots of people after them and for some reason they are dam hard to get. Good luck on finding one.

As for the wheels they are wolf s36 18x8.5 and 9.5 245/45/18s offset I'm a little unsure measures roughly 20/30p. Lowered on bc golds no rubbing etc

[Zedone]

Hey mate, this was a random score. I joined a Facebook group "stagea owners club" it's NZ based.

One of the lads on their was selling his car which has the spoiler and kindly offered it for swaps with an original and cash his way. I went straight to the ATM lol.

I know lots of people after them and for some reason they are dam hard to get. Good luck on finding one.

As for the wheels they are wolf s36 18x8.5 and 9.5 245/45/18s offset I'm a little unsure measures roughly 20/30p. Lowered on bc golds no rubbing etc

Damn, I'll have to keep looking. I was hoping it may have been a site online, I don't really want to see if I can get one from Nissan direct ($$$$$$$$$$). I may see if I can find that group, being in NZ myself

Also, that plenum looks good, a flapper disc and autosol you say? hmmm.

[Lakes101]

Fitted up my oil cooler today fits nicely

[zelda]

Replaced cam cover gaskets today, new plugs plfr6's, new oil and filter ( royal 5w 30) and gave it a good degrease/ clean. Chuck the boost T in tomorrow and see if this turbos gonna handle 1bar haha.

Talk about carbon build up huh?! Too scared to lift the cam caps :s

[Daleo]

Fitted up my oil cooler today fits nicely ImageUploadedBySAU Community1425361070.906607.jpgImageUploadedBySAU Community1425361105.141098.jpg

Looks nice Nathan; did you have the lines made specially?

Just one thing; I have always oriented fittings toward the top of coolers, gravity takes care of bleeding all the air out of the core.

[Brick]

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nah, you have to click on the 'View more Emoticons' link

it's this one--> :|

everytime i used this--> :mrgreen: i never saw that neautral one, untill tonight

Did you just buy a kit or buy separate parts? Does the sandwich plate have a thermostat in it?

[KiwiRS4T]

Nice install Nathan but cooler needs ideally to have fittings to top or will work with fittings to side but upside down can result in airlock which means that some or much of the cooler is not working.

[Lakes101]

Thanks Dale and KiwiRS4T.

Dale yeah I got the lines made up at Pritek.

Brick I bought all the parts separately and yeah the sandwich plate is a Mocal thermostatic one.

Didn't even think about an airlock issue I'll have a look how much play I have with the lines to try mount on top of the Reo bar. The lines are quite stiff though as they are steel braided inside and fittings are fixed in there orientation. Having to buy new lines to run in a different mounting spot will suck but I'll take a shit at it.

[Lakes101]

I was just thinking back where I saw the mounting orientation with fittings facing downwards and remembered it was on the mishimoto 350z install they did. So mounting the cooler with the fittings downwards is guaranteeing an airlock??

[Z33Fairlady]

As for the wheels they are wolf s36 18x8.5 and 9.5 245/45/18s offset I'm a little unsure measures roughly 20/30p. Lowered on bc golds no rubbing etc

Hi Zach,

That's "interesting"...running different width wheels...have you had any issues with respect to the Attessa?

[Lakes101]

Hi Zach,

That's "interesting"...running different width wheels...have you had any issues with respect to the Attessa?

I'm running 9.5 fronts and 10 rears for over 2 years now with no Atessa issues.

[scotty nm35]

I could barely notice any vibration caused by my mismatched rims using the same tyres. There was a slight vibration under acceleration though, only when the transfer case kicked in hard.

The more power you run, the more torque gets transferred, meaning more pressure goes to the clutch pack in the transfer case. This is likely to cause vibration as there is no slip on the clutches to accommodate the mismatched tyre sizes.