First I started off in 2000 when I bought the car (GS with 110 000kms)
I didn't had any plans for it at the time, I was 17 and didn't knew much aobut car and stuff. The only ideas I have was mostly esthetics and that's where it begun. At first I wanted only to do car shows, started with a body kit and paint job, rims, suspension etc..
I was frustrated though to have a car that had good looks but didn't had much power in it. I wanted to shut a couple of mouths around here so I made the big step at the time (klze swap) very few people had one but now it's the opposite, very few have the stock engine. I bought it from a friend Darren Hyderman wich was also a member on this board (Spydie for the oldschoolers).
Went like this for a year pulled great, went like 4-5 times at the track best time was 14.554 @ 94 mph not to bad consdering the car had a klze with almost no other modifications. Now I had a little project of a klze turbo on low boost (around 6psi) So I started gathering parts for it and stuff like that.
Then the engine went on me, I was driving the car normally when I miss shift one gear (going from 2 to 3) and well ya engine began running like crap and stuff. once I got home, took the compression tester, 210 on all cylinders except 1 wich had 0 yes 0 so well ya took the cams off and hlas and yes what expected that happened had happened. Broke 2 intake retainers and bent one valve.
That's where TEH MOVE was made. I parked the car earlier this winter (in september) and decided to build the crap out of it so it won't do it again.
I started up with the heads, I bought titanium retainers from czt and went with a set of interprep springs since I got a good deal on those. I put the duratec felpro valve seal in place instead of the stock one because they were 1- a direct fit, 2- cheaper than mazda 3- better design and quality. I had the heads cleaned at my local machine shop.
Then came time with the bottom end. I was desperate to finish this project so I work rediculous hours at work so I can pay for it.
I bought the compelte engine kit that CZT was selling, wich inlcuded, Wiseco 8.7CR forged pistons, wiseco rings, scat rods and clevite rod bearings. and also bought toga HP main bearings and trust washers for IPP. Now I bought another klze from a guy on this board wich was lying around his house because it was ticking and stuff. I got it for cheap. Then another friend of mine gave me his ze bottom for a service I made to him. So I had 2.5 ze engines in my garage for while. I tore all of them apart (mine becausae it was busted, the other because it had major knock, and other one well it was only the bottom end so).
So I took the my machine shop the bottom end that my friend gave me (didn't knew where it came from) so they could start boring it 0.020 over.
One problem happened, there was a tiny crack in one of the cylinder wall that was noticable to the human eye. He noticed it when he was boring it something strange happened at that place and he noticed he was cracked. So I had to scrap this engine and bring them the one I had in my car wich I knew the only problem was with the heads. He bored it and all and put it all together.
That is were another problem occured. My crank dimensions were dead on stock specs so he thought the bearing that came with the kit fitted. Wasn't the case since the rod I am using are mustang rods so the bearings are undersized. The one I needed was half a size and we couldn't get them. What that meaned ? take the engine apart again, grind the crank, and put it all up together. What's the shitty part is ? I had just paied 400$ for having it balanced with the pistons. !
Anyhow we finally got it all together.
The actual fun part began, I had to put this stuff all together
I painted the engine bay before putting that engine in
Then the engine went in:
While all of this was happening I had tons of parts ordered for the turbo set-up (including MMI pipes, turbo, and all those goodies) and I had almost everyday something that came to my door literaly. the ups guy knew my name by heart !!! lol
after I install of this while swearing it ended up like that
Then trouble shooting taged along
I had a major problem leaking like a mofo in the exhaust !!
well to make this a story short I had 6 bad o-rings at the injectors, and the k8 ecu wasn't helping at all !!
so I ran like that for several weeks,
then another friend taged along, electronics
I had to install my megasquirt with my msd igintion system. how long did it take to install all of this ? 1 day, how much time till it ran good ? 1 month. because of what ? a freakin shitty connection I made. one suggestion for all those futur MS users out there. SOLDER everything
I still could only run 5-6 psi because I didn't had any injectors to support higher boost but I could get used to MS so that ws ok. that's where I got into those nissan injectors, I began modding them and I FINALLY got my rails in by CZT so I could run higher boost
the 550cc finally went in and I started to tune this thing a bit and finally made it to 20psi. OMFG that thing was fast. it was only tuned so I could run it not for performance reasons, my WB wasn't located at a good spot and had problem reading it through MS.
A mistake by my part came along. everything was running fine on 20psi, good timing and all. but for some reason I can't remember I dropped the boost a bit to like 15. The thing is with MS you have to run one map for the psi you're running, this map won't work on another psi. so I forgot to chnage the map and was running the timing for highway (higher timing for better fuel consumption) wich was bad and ended up with bad rings becausae of detonation.
this is where I stand right now. car stored, bad rings. I jungled with the idea of selling it but dropped that idea since I would lost too much (over 20k invested)
so this winter I'm chaning the rings, the cams, and couple of other stuff.
I'm adding water injection for octane booster and to reduce intake temps, to prevent detonation.
I jumped into the Colt cams group buy for a set of turbo grind.
I'm changing my t3-t04e 57 trim to a GT35/40R ball bearing turbo
changing the pre intercooler piping to 2.5" and turbo back exhaust to full 3" mandrel bent
port and polish on the heads, changing my type s bov for a hks SSQV
This is all in the process of being done right now.
Oh and the interior is GOING BACK TO STOCK, can't stand the white s--- anymore, and the car will be repainted too with other rims
Well I know this was a long read but you know everything about me now.
and I know many of you will say or already ask what times, videos, numbers !!!
I don't got any of them mainly because the car was one week on the road one week in the garage. I had plans for that but didn't do anything this year.
Thouhg this spring first thing is dyno, then track, then videos
I'm expecting around 400whp at 20psi maybe more, maybe less (wich I reall doubt)
I'll post pics again as things progress
this is the list of mods so far:Engine:
Block:
Aluminum block bored 0.020" over
8.7 CR Wiseco 4340 forged pistons
Wiseco plasmamoly rings
Wiseco floating wrist pins
Wiseco Spiral-lox
Scat forged I-beam rods (magnaflux and shotpeened)
ARP rod bolts
Polished and balanced forged crankshaft
Clevite 0.050 undersize rod bearings
Toga High-performance main bearings
Toga High Volume oil pump
Entire assembly balanced
Heads:
KLZE heads (soon P&P)
CZT titanium valve retainers
CZT chromoly valve locks
Interprep 195psi valve springs
Stock KLZE valves
Colt cams turbo grind:
INT: 210°@ .050 .355 LIFT
EX: 200° @ .050 .350 LIFT
Duratec performance valve seals
Completely rebuilt heads
Blue powdercoated valve covers
Other:
Polished, knife edged and gutted Millenia intake manifold (bientot nouveau intake MMI)
CZT modded and powdercoated fuel rails
Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator
Unorthodox underdrive pulley
Outlaw engineering phenolic spacers
CZT 67mm throttle body
MBX fuel rail adapter
MSD 8.5mm spark plug wires
NGK BKR7E-11 spark plugs
Custom 2.5" mandrel cat-back (bientot 3")
CATCO hi flow 2.5" cat (bientot testpipe)
Dynomax 2.5" muffler (bientot 3")
TURBO related:
Garrett T3/T04E 57 trim turbo -0.50A/R cold side and 0.83A/R hot side (waiting for my GT35/40R)
Tial 38mm wastegate
Greddy type s blow off valve (soon HKS SSQV)
Bar and plate 28x8x3.5 front mount intercooler
MMI stainless steel turbo manifolds (hot pipes)
custom intercooler piping
-mandrel aluminized steel 2.25" pre intercooler (soon 2.5")
-mandrel aluminized steel 2.5" post intercooler
nissan 550cc injectors
Walbro 255LPH HP fuel pump
Turbonetics manual boost controller
Stainless steel hoses and Earl's fittings for oil feed and drain
DRIVETRAIN:
Stock G25M-R tranny (working on getting lsd in)
Mx-3 17lbs flywheel
ACT Z62-HDSS clutch kit
Corksport stainless steel clutch line
Pacesetter short shifter
Urethane filled engine mounts
SRD engine mounts bushings
SRD shifter extension rod bushings
Upgraded axles
ELECTRONICS & ENGINE MANAGEMENT
Megasquirt & spark stand alone system
Pentium 266 laptop w/ windows 98
AEM UEGO single chanel wideband
MSD 6a ignition box
MSD blaster 2 coil
klze disty
Greddy turbo timer
Autometer Ultralite A/F gauge
Autometer Ultralite 20psi boost gauge
Autometer Ultralite 0-150 Oil pressure gauge
Autometer Ultralite 0-100 Fuel pressure gauge
Optima yellow top battery
PRO 12"dual slimline fans mounted as pushers
HANDLING/SUSPENSION/BRAKES:
17" eagle wheels
205/40-17ZR falken 350's
Suspension techniques springs (1.3 F/R)
ZX2 (tokiko) struts
Rear strut tower bar
Solid endlinks (F/R)
4 wheels crossdrilled rotors
Ceramic Akebono brake pads
Stainless steed braided brake lines
Blue painted calipers
EXTERIOR:
Pakfeifer front bumper
Pakfeifer side skirts
Pakfeifer eyelids
Pakfeifer hood scoop
FX designs rear combat bumper
Z3 fenders
Corksport clear turn signals
Altezzas
Babyblue paint job
All shaved emblems
INTERIOR:
A pillar dual gauge pod
Custom dual gauge pod in center console (to come)
Racing steering wheel
White vibrant shift boot
Whole interior redone in white/babyblue
Indiglo gauges
Brushed aluminium gauge bezel
Custom checkerd plate floor mats
Battery relocation kit
