Page 5: starting the turbo project

Turbo manifolds are not available for my car so I will be using this box of mandrel bends to make mine from scratch.

I started tacking a few tubes together to route the exhaust to where the turbo will soon sit, right next to where the battery used to be. The car in the pic is not my car. It's actually another maxima that I cut the front end off of. I'm using this car to mock up the turbo setup so I won't have to take my car off the road untill the day everything is fabbed up and ready for a quick install.

I welded the turbo flange to a peice of 3" pipe and then to two 2" pipes that will be fed by the front and rear cylinder banks.

Did some more work on the manifold today (5/10/09). Its about halfway done. next I need to  plumb it to the rear bank.

This is how the turbo sits in the engine bay of the test car.^

Finally got the manifold fully assembled except for a little finish welding I will do first thing in the morning tomorrow. (5/16/09)

Added a waste gate flange just below the turdo flange.

Manifold pressure tested, ceramic coated, and wrapped with header wrap^

battery relocated to trunk to make room for the turbo

I started installing the setup in my daily driven Maxima when I got home from work tonight. The manifold bolted right up as expected and the turbo looks awesome under my hood.(6/17/09)

                                                                     Oil feed T'd of oil pressure sending unit

Got the intercooler and piping done

Walbro 255 fuel pump                                     Oil return fitting welded to oil pan

The stock 290cc injectors were replaced with the purple top 370cc injectors. The Jim Wolf Technnology ECU has been tuned to work with these injectors and a Z32 mass air sensor to deliver the extra fuel.

UPDATE: I actually finished it today and drove it. Everything was actually perfect. It's set at 10 pounds and it is just ridiculous. I had so much fun driving it today that I stayed out till 11:30 just driving around punching it on every straight away. The sound and raw acceleration are indescribable. I plan to make a video so people can see what I'm talking about.

boost gauge out of sight to the competition.

Brake rotor cracked. I blame the turbo.  Hopefully these brembo's hold up a little better.

This is just a short video of my car in the parking lot at one of meets.

The next step after finishing the turbo was a turbo-back exhaust. I needed full 3" for this horsepower level so i had to build it myself.

I upgraded to a larger Precision Garrett T3/T4 .63AR turbine, .60AR compressor.

Page 1: Old exhaust pics

Page 2: Struts, springs, interrior

Page 3: Clutch/flywheel, transmission

Page 4: Sway bar, short shifter, underdrive, brakes

Page 5: Turbo, full 3" exhaust

Page 6: New motorand lightweight battery