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2 hours ago, Ekona said:

Nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure. 

You've gotta love a Sci Fi geek 

I think it may be the most hideous thing I have ever seen ever ever 

I was thinking about putting a couple of discrete vents in my bonnet but was concerned that it might look gaudy that puts everything into perspective 

I think it may be car fanatics bidding on it so they can scrap it and put it out of it's misery

1 hour ago, Ortega_9 said:

Well this is about the Best Way to start the weekend.

 

just Got this from my tuner.

 

The car makes over 400 PS and 500 NM at the hubs on the dynopack @0,4 bar at only 5000ish revs. It's gonna be more when he does a full pull...

 

Excellent glad to see all of your hard work paying off

16 hours ago, Jake.Lowther said:

Anymore progress?

 

I now have the UTEC fully working in my car and the Wideband reader installed, strangly the UTEC isn't showing the widebands reading in the logs is this something you come across?

yes you have to go to the tuner menu and log through that to include the afr data, check your email I sent you the manual 

Oh and no. no more progress slowly slowly catchee monkee as the saying goes and sadly most of my projects 

20 hours ago, Jake.Lowther said:

Seen this in person looks like the dogs bollocks, can't wait to hear it in person 

I agree it does look the dogs danglies but I am somewhat biased 

1 hour ago, Bakkums said:

Any updates yet? Can't wait to hear the beast growl again.

Sorry not really any updates I'm still tuning and coming across little things I hadn't thought about that require me starting to tune again from scratch and little niggling problems like having to fit an idle air valve since going over to cable throttle, of which I'm on my third (air valve) but it's getting closer all the time so I will hopefully have something for you soon

Hey just got caught up with this, excellent work looking really good 

I've seen this a lot on here and have had the same issue myself on the 350 and other cars but have always found that cleaning up the caliper PROPERLY has solved this 

EBC and BREMBO both good quality components these should fit perfectly (Just my opinion)

what suspension were these bought to fit ?

44 minutes ago, scobie140 said:

I can't believe they sell a kit that requires this much work to get to work! 

However your the right man for the job and has made this an interesting read along with your other projects

yea I don't think it's right this is copied straight off the ebay listing

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OBX-Individual-Throttle-Body-Fit-For-02-13-Nissan-Altima-3-5L-VQ35-V6/181799772529?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

• Precision casted and machined/ Direct bolt-on kit*

and in case you were wondering the asterisk relates to this

*Foot note: The straight air horns will not fit under the OEM hood.  Modification to the is needed. Some assemblies will be required.  The operating wheel will need to be taped and tread to desired position. 

I wasn't actually expecting the direct bolt on bit but the precision cast and machined bit would have been nice

2 hours ago, RobPhoboS said:

It's brilliant checking this out !

I'd be worried about the foam filters getting sucked into it though

 

 

no the filters will be fine (Probably) 

this is the conversion to throttle cable instead of drive by wire

I welded a short piece of 1/4" bar to the accelerator pedal for the cable I was going to go almost straight on the end of the arm but this would come out behind the brake servo

as you can see it's pretty close to the servo and really hard to drill as it's on a sloping bulkhead and generally inaccessible from inside or out

yes I know I used a rusty old screw for fixing it but it's all I had at the time I will change it later

and there you go just waiting for my idle air valve and I can start it up

9 hours ago, Keyser said:

Just had a catch up - looking good, a quick thought - is it not possible to gear the actuator down to increase torque or would that result in to little travel?

 

Keep up the good work mate

 

yes exactly as you said i could and it would 

Ok I've been a bit quiet for a while as i've been having a few issues, the return springs needed to close the throttles properly to ensure stable idle are just too strong for the modified 350z actuator so far I've burnt out 2 of them and have no intention to do a 3rd so I'm going over to a cable setup it means I lose the cruise control but I don't use it anyway also I have to fit an idle air valve to control the idle for cold start, aircon and power steering load etc

finding a route for the cable is being a pain but I think I have it sorted now I hope to have it running again this weekend.

2 hours ago, Ekona said:

Shame, if you were a bit closer I was going to say pop round and we'll get on it together and see if we can figure it out  

ooh er get it on together

sorry dan I'm easily amused 

and I've had a really boring day

yes exactly

is that swarf around the air temp sensor you don't want that getting in the engine

Got the air filters sorted today

I like it 

also took it for a quick spin up the road and back need to do lots of tuning 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nobsound-Lepy-HiFi-Stereo-Multimedia-4-Channel-45W-4-Bluetooth-Power-Amplifier/253316388066?hash=item3afad554e2:g:BaQAAOSwCtJaNZgi

this is the same as the one I bought mine was cheaper though

12 minutes ago, Bakkums said:

Looking good. Isn't it an idea to make a kind of intake box so hot air won't be entering the itb's? Saw this somewhere and thought this would really help the heatsoke problem. Just an idea 

yea I have a few things in mind for that but it will wait until I get it running properly

people seem to run throttle bodies either without filters or with sock type filters which look like crap I think this looks better and no before someone asks they aren't the screws I'll be using

tiger ?

I have been progressing with this project sadly I'm currently waiting for parts, a spring specifically you'd think I could just pop up the road and get one but no. well I have got quite specific requirements anyway while waiting there was an issue with the end throttle bodies where the throttle position sensor would go the problem being my sensors are in the throttle servo so I needed to cap and seal this shaft i think the Jenvey items come with plastic caps and mine obviously come with nothing  so this is my solution

 I have also tweaked the vacuum lines from the throttle bodies as I was getting too much pulsing so I now have four lines coming from the bodies to the manifold the signal is much more stable now, the Evaporative emisions  line is also connected and I have tapped one of the velocity stacks so it will be drawn in between the air filter and the butterfly I've run it in a clear petrol line for now as it's the only hose I had in that size but will change it later.

I've also sorted out the PCV system the rockers are now vented to a catch can and again goes to a port tapped into another velocity stack sadly again in clear plastic for now as I've run out of black

Ok enough for now as I need to go and order some plastic pipe cause that clear stuff looks like crap

4 hours ago, Dracostan said:

That must have been lot of work to try and sort the welds, but those rails look so much better than the others. Glad you got them to fit

 

 

Now, where is the obligatory vid for us ?! 

No video yet I'm afraid I'm having some major idling and balancing issues and have had to strip a lot of it back down to sort it out