My 4th intercooler/intercooler piping setup

[bazeng]

hey guys

im quite happy with this install
although i thought it would have been quite difficult being a 300zx and all but i guess after doing them a few times u get used to the angles / you get more of an eye for these stuff..

first time on my vr4, my pipes were nasty!!!..

I'm considering buying a welder and doing more of these..

here are some pics

i dont have a welder so i dropped off the bits at the exhaust place to weld..
picking them up this morning..

ill post pics of the finished product!

i love it when things go right first time!..

aiming for 12's with bolt ons in the 300zx...
and i personally love these cars..
so much torque..
comfy
one of my favs in the nissan family.. (very underrated)

 

[matress]

got any pics of the piping and stuff baz?
did you get it done in mild or stainless?
i'm going to need some done soon aswell... let me know a price you think you could do it for, plus mounting the cooler... I'm awaiting a price from Chris Meek aswell to see if one of his kits will match up to my cooler.

 

[CLuTZ]

one of my favs in the nissan family.. (very underrated)

They look like giant slices of pizza, big fat heavy ones!!!!

 

[olly]

might be a stupid question but does having two pipes into and out of the cooler give it better effect?

 

[tharaka]

might be a stupid question but does having two pipes into and out of the cooler give it better effect?

its a twin turbo

 

[olly]

ah yeah i know that but if u split the pipe into 2 pipes that go into the cooler? would that prove any good or just useless?

 

[tharaka]

ah yeah i know that but if u split the pipe into 2 pipes that go into the cooler? would that prove any good or just useless?

more piping = more lag

 

[bazeng]

here is the finished product!

got it done today..
perfect fit

painted black for stealth.. (should paint the cooler also)

as a result, more lag... but ALOT more top end!!.. just keeps on going..
need to up the boost still.. still running the stock 7psi

i ordered the hardcore super massive type clamps in 2.5", but they bloody sent me the 3" ones... so i had to use crappy clamps..

hopefully ill get them soon....
dont like the use of these clamps on intercooler piping..

OLLY:
the reason its got 2 inlets / outlets is because it has 2 turbo's..
the 300zx uses a V6 which also has 2 seperate inlet manifolds (2 x 3cylinder manifolds) therefor its pretty much like having 2 x 3cylinder motors...

with the gtr's and supra's.. they have a straigh six and one throttly body / inlet manifold therefor 2 can go into 1...

as for splitting, on a single turbo car, maybe it would help distribute the air equally over the cooler but that could be done with end tank design anyway..

next mod.. dump pipe / boost gauge / boost / safc..

i've done some reading and with the listed mods, they should make close anywhere between 180 - 250kw's at the wheels..

 

[-GLI-747-]

Holy **** that looks awesome mate, nice and clean.

But it's hardly stealth... the HUGE ASS cooler and blue hoses give it away :lol:


I might of missed it, but is it auto or manual?

and wind that boost up

How much did it end up costing?

 

[3zercrowd]

Good job Baz

How bigs the airfilter behind there?

 

[Entaran]

Things to say...

Front mounts on 300zx's are a whole lot of trouble if you don't replace the lost airflow. This can be accomplished through two measures both of which are more or less considered "required" if you add a front mount.

Measure 1: Buy a heavily vented bonnet.
Measure 2: Get a fluted nosecone

also you can get a radiator air guide if you wish.

300zx's are NOTORIOUS for cooking the motors due to insufficient engine bay cooling. I've personally seen this happen 3 times on the 4 zed's I know with front mounts.

Also, the 300zx responds better to 2 inch cooler piping compared to 2.5 inch cooler piping. Top end isn't much affected and you get a far stronger mid range.

 

[bazeng]

its still using the z32 afm so its using a 3" pod filter (which is quite small)

the front bar covers the thing up nicely so its quite stock looking.. which is good these days..

he's owned this zed for 6 years now and this is his first engine mod!!
cant believe it..

 

[rob323]

300zx

My friend found that the auto's start to **** themselves at about 12 psi. If its a manual, no probs though.

 

[doommachine]

Mm.. Z32. Love them. Anyway, to minimise lag, wouldn't it be (obviously too late now, just an afterthought) better to have two long skinny intercoolers? In some car magazine I was reading a guy had twin turbo'd a focus, and he had a big intercooler and a little one (the car had two different sized turbos).

 

[Entaran]

Mm.. Z32. Love them. Anyway, to minimise lag, wouldn't it be (obviously too late now, just an afterthought) better to have two long skinny intercoolers? In some car magazine I was reading a guy had twin turbo'd a focus, and he had a big intercooler and a little one (the car had two different sized turbos).

The two cores on that big intercooler are completely seperate. The air doesn't flow from upper to lower.

 

[bazeng]

it is pretty much like 2 skinny coolers
effectively, its a height of 150mm x width of 300mm x 75mm thickness for each turbo..