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Can anyone shed any light for me...have recently bought a 350z totally standard, what are the best mods for me to do? i was thinking exhaust cat back...but also thinking of just taking the cat off as mot isnt a problem for me, have ordered air filter. Not sure though if i have a de cat if it will spoil the sound of the car and just make it stupidly loud...which i dont want, but i do want the extra bit of power. :)

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Will need an UpRev remap to get gains from any mods, do all breathing mods first then get it mapped. So filters, HFCs/decats, y pipe and mid pipe and backbox. Looking at anything from 10-30bhp gain with all of this.

 

You won't get any gains without a remap, as above the ECU will adapt to anything you add.

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so im guessing will get a 10-15bhp gain off cat back exhaust and air filter?

 

Not unless you remap afterwards.

 

350 has an intelligent ECU and it adapts to dial back power to it's OEM setting.

And UpRev remap is the way to get around this. But if you are spending money on that then you may as well go the whole hog prior to it - Panel filters in OEM housing, exhaust, HFC's, and a plenum spacer.

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Where does the heat soak bit come from? heat soak only takes place when the car is stationary or slow moving and the airflow is slow, once the car is at normal speeds (providing that you don't have a cone filter that doesn't have a decent cold air feed directly to it from the outside air)

The airflow will prevent any detrimental effect from heat.

The std air box with a decent filter will be far better, as it has a reasonable cold air feed, which can be improved with a little ingenuity.

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I have plenum spacer, de cat, cat back system done by longlife, cosworth filter and remap and have 310 hp on a DE engine to give you a rough gains estimate, the bloke at h-dev said i have the same setup as him and have about 4 more bhp with decat instead of berks hfc's

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IIRC from GCSE physics, heat can transfer by conduction, convection and radiation. So when the car is moving I'd expect heat soak to be reduced for conduction and convection, but not eliminated. Also as radiation heat travels through a vacuum (sun's heat to earth) the heat 'reflectivity', as well as the specific heat capacity, of the materials must also be a factor in heat soak, whilst in motion.

 

It's been a while since I did GCSE physics, so that could be wildly apocryphal :lol:

 

Edit: typos, sorry for sub GCSE English skills :(

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IIRC from GCSE heat can transfer by conduction, convection and radiation. So when the car is moving I'd expect heat soak to be reduced, but not eliminated. Also the radiation as left travels through a vacuum (sun's heat to earth) so the 'reflectivity' as well as the specific heat capacity of the materials must also be a factor in heat soak whilst in motion.

 

It's been a while since I did GCSE physics, so that could be wildly apocryphal :lol:

 

Exactly, thats the reason I polished up my Pop Chargers heat shield, not because it looks pretty :D

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The real questions are:

 

Do aftermarket bits weigh more and negatively impact power to weight ratio?

Even if they weigh less, do they impact weight distribution and balance negatively?

Do they impact airflow, air pressure or turbulence and increase drag at all?

Or negatively impact any intended air flow efficiencies nissan intentionally designed in?

 

I fear we may never know ;)

 

I just buy shiny things and loud things :lol:

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