homeslicej2

Where are you dynoing it at?

s14unimog

Balanced Performance

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jr_ss

Thursday right?

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s14unimog

yup. 9am

It's make or break now...

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homeslicej2

Awesome. I had Scotty at Mainstream tune mine with NIStune. So was just wondering. Hope you make goood #'s and looking forward to the dyno graph!

codyace

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s14unimog

Right on; I've heard they do good work and are an authorized dealer of Nistune. I've been going to Ed over at balanced since I boosted my KA back in 05; the guy does contract EMS work for a number of race teams so I've just come to trust his work over the years. So I just keep going back.

lol Cody, good shit. The heat is on baby!!

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jr_ss

Cody, lol, wtf man? That video is whack...

Good luck tomorrow, looking forward to seeing some numbers.

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codyace

Man, you guys have some bad music taste I happen to play that daily! LOOOL


In for the good news for tomorrow!

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babowc

Do you live near/around Athens?
I think I saw your car on SR316 the other day, coming down from UGA...

homeslicej2

Yeah, having a tuner you can trust is always nice. I've heard only a little about Ed, but it's all been good. Scotty is the most convenient for me and I know he's been tuning cars for many yrs with great results. Only other NIStune authorized dealer/tuner was Derek at Lethal, but that's a really long drive for me. Looking forward to the numbers & graph.

jr_ss

Updates dood!

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garagelu

I'm not sure when you talked to Balanced last but is Ed still tuning there? Last time I was there tuning, Ed told be he wouldn't be tuning at Balanced anymore because he is on the road so much with race teams. He said he still works with Balanced but just not a daily basis.

s14unimog

^ right. That´s the story I hear too. I went back and forth with Ed when I was trying to schedule a date but it didn´t work with his travel schedule. Chris, his apprentice, actually tuned it this time. He seems like a cool guy and seems to know what he´s doing; all went well.

The car ran great for the tuning and runs like a scalded ape down the road but I´m still not satisfied. See, I´m running a 1 bar actuator with no boost controller and its not popping like it should. The car made 383whp @ 16psi and 300wtq. On the last pull, I got down and stared at the actuator, it´s creeping open and killing my mid range potential. Out on the road, you´d swear that wasn´t the case but I know it could be better. The plan now is to source a 10psi actuator and get another EBC. Either the case, its a beast and I´m back!!!

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turbos hate dynos

there i said it

its official


scaleded ape...we say raped ape up north Still badass INC.

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ya... There is some disconnect. The car drives nothing like it looks on the graph.

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whitepony22

Car looks amazing. I'm glad to see you finished it. It has often been motivation for me to get back to work on mine.

Pinggg

Sounds good! Suck to hear about what happen on the dyno but at least it drives like it should on the road!

ixfxi

bump for a great thread, bring this shit back with some updates

jr_ss

I agree... I want some feedback 3months later.

If you haven't sourced an EBC I have a Blitz SBC ID I don't think I'm going to use. LMK.

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What's happened since I left off... Well for one, she still runs and runs strong. I have been using the car often and have been through roughly 4 sets of rear tires since my last dyno. I will admit that this summer and my latest project have kept me a bit distracted from modifying the 240 lately. And to be honest, I needed to get away from working on it for a bit and just enjoy the damn thing.

Here is the quick and dirty on my latest project. Click HERE if you want to see the entire build. I'll admit it, I love to build something.

Bought this 1997 Seadoo XP for a steal with a blown motor, no trailer and left for dead. I figure, I always buy a sport bike every year to rebuild so I wanted to try something that both the wife and I could enjoy. She likes a ride (giggity) but I can't let her take a crotch rocket down the street.

Before...

• 781cc w/ shattered forward piston
• no trailer
• faded gelcoat and tired vinyls
• generally nasty as hell

Now...

• 796cc w/ .75mm overbore
• Galvanized Wesco trailer w/ new carpet & runners
• polished hull - no stickers
• new track mats, new seat cover, generally clean as whistle

Now with that puppy broken in, it's very hard to do much more than crash the lake every weekend. I've probably put about 40-50 hours on it since the rebuild and it runs like a CHAMP! It'll indicate 60-65 on the speedo but I suspect on GPS that's just south of 60mph. It will scream tho, believe me. I plan to sell it at the beginning of the season next year.

Okay, back to the car. What's been done as of lately

For one. I had a little accident with my hood. If you'll recall, I had ground the stops off of my hinges to allow it to go completely vertical. I told myself that I will design a prop or gas shock mount but never got around to it. Welp... I was sitting at a show with the hood up on the standard prop when the wind picked up. I was standing near the car, and quickly noticed the hood threatening to come un-hooked from the prop. So just as I started over to arrest the hood, the prop un-hooked, dropping the prop rod and hood alike. I reached out under the hood and would have caught it, if it had continued to fall. Well it didn't. The wind took it and blew it back across my windshield; breaking both corners of the hood. FUCK!



So... I set out to solve the hood prop situation. Not to mention, I needed to get to this so that I could situate my oil cooler mount / cooling panel which required me to ditch the factory prop. Plus, who likes that prop? I don't.

Since I put gas shocks on my Jeep's hood, I stole its prop and came up with this...








THAT is what Nissan should have done!

With that done and out of the way, I have turned my attention back to the damage. I had a very informative conversation with Mike from Kognition and he directed me towards some materials to repair the damage. I plan to give that a go here in the next few weeks. I can't say it enough how much I appreciate the time he took to discuss the damage and help me out. If they ever plan to mfg. a Zenki hood, I will buy one just b/c of that. You hear me Mike?


Uh.... what else?

Here is a recent picture of the car


Oh, I made another garage entry video. Considering it got so much attention last time, I thought it was only appropriate to make something a bit more up to date to my modifications. That solid mounted subframe sure does make a huge difference on clearance. Check it out.



Other than that, you guys are up to date. I have plans to track the car on Monday at Roebling Road in Savannah, so I am very excited about that. I plan to do a lot of filming. So once I get a chance to sort through that, I'll post up some video.

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KoukiMonsta

Hell yea! Glad to hear she is going strong.

Always loved your re-build and great infoyou provided me with!

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verticle hoods................................ only in georgia. :-)

CamryOnBronze

Awesome build, man. Makes me want to build my bottom end. I better get out of here! lol.

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jr_ss

You know damn well that building your motor has crossed your mind, at least a few times, act like it hasn't, ha!

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codyace

the fact you ripped the tires made it all worth it. the tool was a nice choice too

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s14unimog

No problem buddy, I'm glad I could help.

Ah, come on... It's useful as all hell. Plus, I had to ditch the standard prop for my oil cooler mount. It's a product of necessity.

Thanks! You should talk, I covet more than a few pictures of your car. (no homo). If I can say one thing though, build it and balance the entire assembly (dampener, crank, rotating ass'y, clutch, flywheel, pressure plate, etc...) You'll thank me later.

I aim to please. It's a damn good song

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Well, Roebling went without too much pain. The car ran flawlessly through the whole day and I went through almost two tanks of gas. I've amassed over 16G of HD footage, so its going to take me a minute to get it all organized and cropped into video. Once I get something together, I'll post it up.

If anyone knows the track, then these figures will mean something to ya. My best lap was a 1:25.2 with a top speed on the front straight of 148-150mph (GPS indicated) on the 2.02 mile track. I was running 235/40 Federal 595's @ 32psi and only killed about 3/4" of them but slid out very often. Unfortunately drifting has been banned at Roebling so I was only able to sneak in a couple power slides through turns 5 & 6.

I must say, the experience was eye opening. There is nothing like running your car wide open for lap after lap after lap. You really gain a lot of knowledge about what you've assembled and what it takes to get through a turn quickly. I plan to do this as often as possible. The event and the people made it all the better too. No scene-fan emo boys in their skinny jeans here. Just decent guys, with good jobs and a real interest to go fast. They were practically perplexed by my car and only had good things to say. I learned from so many people and have created valuable friendships for the future. I may just very well stick to this for the future; we'll see...

Video to come.

On a side note, I got a chance to go head to head with a new C6 Z06. We did a slow lap, both rolling onto the front straight at a little under 80mph. We both laid into it and by 150mph he had pulled almost 2 car lengths on me. Unfortunately for me, he was running 285F/315R DOT slicks, ABS, ASM and TCS so I had no chance in the turns. All in all my lap times were about 4-5secs slower than his; although he claimed identical times to me when he ran on street tires.

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Conrad 2NR

Does that mean you're gonna put on similar slicks compound for when you hit the track in the future?

Congrats on a problem-less run.

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mostdopes13

makes me really miss my zenki. looks good bro