Kaveney

Another EX MR2 owner . They were good cars . Alan

Few more pics of the suspension bits from under the car . Diff bush And a quick wash . Alan

I like to explain a lot Alan

This is my road car so wanted to keep the final drive and not up the in gear revs . Will give a report on the quaife diff when I get chance to drive it . Alan

2005 350Z UK GT 94K miles 06 air box and BMC panel filter Plenum spacer DC sport S/S headers Moterdyne ART pipes Milltek Y pipe Milltek exhaust Uprev Alan

Big update time . On Thursday I took the car down to Abbey Motorsport for a few parts to be done . First up was to change the old tired camber arms Old New Hardrace uprated adjustable units . Then the rear old tow arms . New Hardrace uprated adjustable units Then was the spring bucket replacement Hardrace uprated adjustable units . They replace the inboard spring bucket that are left when using true dual coilovers . New lock out camber bolts as the tracking can be undone on the original camber bolts if hitting large potholes . Then on to the old front track rod ends . New Hardrace uprated long shaft units . Then after all of the suspension changes a full tracking session was done . Next up was the Diff . The diff bush bearings were getting and were knocking and one was leaking so needed to be changed . Old units New Whiteline bushing kit Then on to the diff . The unit in the 350Z UK car is an open vicous type and the last time I did a diff oil change the unit looked a bit tired . After doing some reading the best plan for me was not a clutch type as it is still my road car so a Quaife ATB was put on order . Old Differential unit New Quaife ATB unit . Then last on the list was to change over the hi flow sport cats for some Moterdyne ART pipes . Old Cobra hi flow sport cats New Moterdyne ART pipes . Sound clip I will load up later but the car is still nice and quite and not too loud but give a good bark on full throttle . Last up was to put the car on the Hub dyno to tweek for the new ART pipes . I was not expecting that much improvement in power but the ART pipes gave a 11.5 BHP gain and 5 LB/FT gain so very good in the end . So the car is now putting out 310 BHP and around 288 LB/FT . Regards Alan

Sorry but to fit cams into a 350Z motor is a lot of money , easier to do with the motor out in our opinion; Then if your running wild cams you need to run more compression as the static compression will be dropped as the cam is wilder; new pistons needed; I know Sasha when he was running his own company used to tune on a Dynapack. Used to throw idea between us. They used to use SAE conversion which will add around 10/15bhp to a bhp figure; Your end up with a motor with a engine with a 2000rpm power band max that will not be nice to drive at small throttle openings and low RPM's , will require rev to make it go properly; That's why us UK tuners always say go FI makes a more fun car easier to drive quickly on the road , but if the car is going to be a track car/race car yeah go for NA power but your also need a sequential gearbox to make the most of the narrow power band. I did manage to run a car on our in house dyno today and recorded Vac in the plenum , reading in Absolute KPA we saw a increase in Vac from 0 to approx 0.003 kpa at the rev limit such a small increase , my thought is it the TB or the plenum design; Same car recorded 270hub bhp thou pretty good number for a DE motor , circ approx 310 flywheel bhp , stock motor , headers, ART decat pipes, plenum spacer,stock airbox with velocity stack, Milltek system and a very good reamp with UPREV. a Stock DE will give around 235/240 hub bhp we have seen from all the cars we have run over the years. With 94 K miles on the car as well

I have this set up and it works very well GLWS . Alan

Some good work going on there

I have dc sports headers manifold if your English . Got a gain of 6 bhp and 6 lb/ft

Great bit of kit and can recemond to anyone

Back to black Friday

Ok enough said Alan

Any reason or link for the ban ? Alan Nice i didn't realize the website was live.... or that he was banned and unable to post it himself. Probably explains things

Not a nice job to do as well so the longer the better . Alan

I got the NGK iridium ones for a good price £ 23 odd I think . Alan

Is that 10 % off supercharger and install

I got this last Christmas . Great bit of kit . Alan

£ 70 - 80 to fill it up on the super

Just put two in at the weekend one in the boot and one behind the front seat . Alan

Small update . A few more things have turned up ready for next month . On to this weekend and a small service of oil and filter change and fuel system cleaner and engine flush . Also cleaned out the BMC air filter . And gave the MAF sensor a good clean . And to finish off some dehumidifiers .

Miltek hfc miltek y pipe and dc sport headers I have and the sound is spot on

Stock looks FTW . Alan

Or the engine power and torque rpm

I give it 3 weeks till you start upgrading parts ☺