Space Cadet Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Quite fancy keeping the Z normally aspirated, have had a few turbo’d cars and fancied a change with the Z, anyway have messed around with cams in the past on NA cars and if it’s set up properly can be wicked. It seems to be the trend on the site to go down the supercharger or turbo route but has anyone fitted for example the Nismo cams or any others? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Removed Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 not in the UK afaik. In the US there are some proper NA cars with all sorts of mods, in fact some cars who are well into the 300whp region. cams are apparently a very worthwhile mod, but very time consuming to install, for what I've read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest prescience Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 Not AFAIK. But I do know that this is a distinctively non-trivial install; will find out how many hours for you See here http://www.my350z.com/forum/showthread. ... ost2082601 just the first post I came up with which concurs with my 10-12 hour recollection of install time - the UTEC is a side issue in this context Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest prescience Posted February 13, 2006 Share Posted February 13, 2006 The main problem being how do you tune for them - presumably (but I do not know) if you just did cams, you would get all kinds of warning lights if you had no standalone or piggy-back EMS in tandem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Cadet Posted February 13, 2006 Author Share Posted February 13, 2006 If the cams are not too extreme then the standard ECU normally works ok. Poor example I know, but with my first car a Saxo VTS it was happy with some mild cams (and pulley wheels), with approx. 20% increase in BHP (But with gradually higher lift cams the car would be virtually undrivable until I needed a stand-alone ECU and end saw approx. 60%, but with a full engine build). Nismo do various cams for the Z and with an experienced garage I wondered if it would be fun having a mild set put in, I think the car feels a bit lethargic, I don’t mean lacking in power but needs it to rev more and more freely. Anyway, just wondered if anyone else had fitted cams rather than going forced induction which I don’t want to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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