nissanman312

Well it's been a while and the project took a turn the engine did go back in but then a rotrex equipped car became available so I bought it and returned it to standard and removed and sold the stillen kit I then fitted the rotrex kit to my car The end result looks much better and the kit is much nicer under the bonnet and with the built engine the car feels so much Keener it rips to the redline it's actually pretty frightening to drive now when you keep your foot in. At 14psi it made 540 and 585 at 18psi but couldn't push as fuel pressure was dropping out I've since discovered a split fuel hose so hopefully that's sorted now Anyway a couple of pictures

Cheers mate All credit has to go to @350Butcherto this point🙌

Engines back at the car 🎉 Dressed up and ready to go back in at the next opportunity

In a bid to tidy up the engine bay on the new build I thought I'd powered coat the pipework to match the stillen manifold

My head gasket let go at 14.5 psi but the internals looked perfect when we pulled it apart

I had a new impeller fitted and used vortech themselves in the states I took the opportunity to upgrade to the si impeller over the sci which netted a few more psi I definitely wouldn't trust anyone other than vortech to do the job and I don't think they will sell you parts This being said I did come across a UK guy the other day thats rebuilding a load of chargers and seems to do things correctly so might be worth a chat with him regarding the aftermarket impellers you talk of https://www.facebook.com/UKSuperchargerRepairs Good luck

Engine will be done end of march hopefully in and running end of April Just fitting it in around all of life's commitments 🙄

Few more pictures from butcher performance @350Butchers aka marts shed 💪marts doing a lovely job and his attention to detail is second to none Nearly there few more bits and we'll be heading back to my shed 😄 to get the engine back in.

This had me on my first one First thing on did on my current one was pull the fuse. Don't wait pull the fuse 🤣

Dose it offer all the trick features that it dose on the 370z Closed loop etc

New OEM

Bit of progress yesterday and a few quality hours in @350Butcher aka butchers performance shop/shed and the heads are on Just need to clean a few more bits this week and then hopefully get it closed up. Some close ups of the ARP 625s and the dynosty gaskets hopefully they will never need to be seen again 😁

Cheers Dave sure is the best man for the job The civic is one hell of a car in almost every way ....a proper b road muncher. but I can't wait to drive my z again 😁

Block was bored to take new JE pistons and we used the black ...I think they are grade 1 bearings on the crank

Long overdue update on this. life well and truly got in the way this year and I ended up buying a stop gap love or hate the looks what a car it is to drive and dose all the family duties realy well so think it might stick around for a while. Anyway you're not here for that! now life has settled down a my focus is back on getting the z ready to enjoy next year so here's some progress pictures I have also had a koyo rad matted to the stock ac condenser to keep things cool