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cheers... just stumbled upon this instruction video: would have been handy to have watched before I started my install... had to go down a bit of a different route for my install Think I might do the writeup after all Can't wait to open her up!

Video: old video when I didnt have the intake/ecu/cats etc: Not sure the sound does it any justice...

Well I won and old cat's lost Sounds is amazing (Dont think the neighbours will like it) Can feel a massive difference in low end torque and mid range. Not had a chance to do proper road testing yet. ALL good, might do a writeup for this one too having just started the one of my plenum / manifold it might just take a while before I do that... Will post up some photos though. (oh and SOUND!) photos: note the bleeding bolt! http://picasaweb.google.com/ALNPHOTOS/350ZCats#

Sounds like the way to go, hardest part was under the car trying to get a good position to actually twist the damn nuts around. Also damn hard to get the car high enough with my jack stands. Only bonus will be that I can state I did it myself also saw that I need to talk to the lads over here making custom exhaust for the rest of the way, cant have two shiny new cats and connect them to a rusty single exhaust to the collector in the back now can I

I so would have handed it in if I'd known! Prob would have costed me double though.

How much is it to hand this into a garage? I've had so much pain trying to get these rusted bolts of the car... I'll write a 'andlid howto' later, so far cat vs andlid fight is proving a hard one! rounded nuts hours of painfully trying to get the stuff off has resulted in a somewhat strange result (had to cut off the leads for the 02 sensors too...) More to come....

why have you done that!

Will I need a 20" or 12" extension bar to reach those mother bolts on the org cat? Dont have either in my stash yet, looks like I gotta work tomorrow and been to lazy doing other sh*t instead of installing these yet hopefully tomorrow afternoon I'll get to do this. I did however manage to get my new plenum installed yesterday

how can I check any of above>>? typical cost>? not to bad so, will drop it down to a mech asap.

how can I check any of above>>? typical cost>?

read the tsb's for the car and check if they've been sorted. best of luck with it! (also if you want to drive faster then 180km/h make sure its de-restricted) What else has been done to it? bet it's not standard exhaust on it Ask them for the original auction report from Japan, it could tell you alot. best of luck!

hmm where do I start, tried starting the car today after sitting in a carpark all day (drove only about 10miles this morning from home) car started up fine and revved a bit higher then normal around 2k, then it just died. Tried to start it again and it just kept cranking over without starting. (panic) Stopped cranking since I didnt want to flat out the battery, pressed the accelerator to the floor and started cranking again, almost stopped it when it finally revved up and started... scary... stuck in 1st gear... felt a bit hard to get in... drove off and the car juddered, kind like it hand problems engaging/disengaging the clutch? drove off and sat in traffic for a little while and from N to 1st I now couldnt for the life of me get 1st gear in, had to brute force it in to get going when it went green. Started then to 'fell' the gear changes and now feels a bit hard to get gears in, no sound from sync or gearbox noise. What could be wrong? Think the start issue is dirty plenum and throttle body so that will hopefully be fixed when I get time to change the plenum The judder/gearing issue : old clutch oil? Don't think that's ever been changed, nothing in the service book regarding changing anything like that in JPY. CAR: 2003 JDM import 66k/km on it. Any input/ideas?

think I need to clean mine out again pain in the hole, can take some snaps and do a write-up of anyone wants it?

get those bolts out! # Step 1 Heat the connection with a propane torch if you can do so without any risk of damage or fire. It helps draw penetrating oil into the threads (see step 2). # Step 2 Apply a liberal amount of penetrating oil in and around the joint, then wait ... and wait ... and wait. It can take anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours to loosen the joint. # Step 3 Strike the head of the bolt or nut with a cold chisel to shock the connection. # Step 4 Apply an open-ended wrench or socket of the proper size, and rap its handle sharply with a rubber or wood mallet.

pics of install? cant wait to fit mine, so much work that I dont get any spare time to do it in though

Import I presume? can you get me the ecu number , we are working on the de limiter on the JDM car,s at the moment , I have a JDM car that we are trying to sort out the limiter. Will keep you in the know as to speak now who want,s a cheap deal on a remap then , Early UK car with exhaust system, mainfold spacer and air filter kit? Mark yup JDM it is, is there a better way to get the ecu number then having to look at the actual ecu? I'll PM you the nr.

id be interested in a base map without any fancy adjustments and no dyno on mine... just to see if it takes off the speed limiter!

fuel map and ignition map and think they messed around with the cam's...

vista is mine does it now and again, i just reboot the router and off it goes. how old is the router and what make?

330 on the fly mate, surely thats not highest worldwide??? not running e85, running e5 at the moment. pre haltech I think was 265, dont think I got a soft copy of it but do think that I posted it here at some stage, will take wander.

excellent, Going to do a retune some day, after i get the new ssv fitted and the race cats... hoping for 330 or 320 on RON95

keep it to the comment thread sorry should have said, the 'before' is when it was just switched in, the after is after the actual tune

nice, best of luck with her... bet she's was at a pretty good price too!

Model: 2003 VQ35DE (JDM) Mods: Apexi filter,Pure Plenum Spacer, ZEES Exhaust, Haltech Platinum ECU Dyno: dyno dynamics / couture auto Ireland BHP: WHP: 267.11 / FHP: 323.4 Torque: 304.59 lb/ft (E5 Petrol)