The Nissan N12 Pulsar ET comes with the E15et engine, a 1500cc SOHC turbo engine developing 74kw from the factory at the engine. The car weighs about 950 kgs so with light modifications the power to weight ratio starts looking pretty good. Unfortunately the car is built very lightly and flexes on driveways and over judder bumps.
I got the car for $500 from my mate (Phil) with the standard e15et ecu connection issue fixed the car ran well adn had done just under 90,000 k's. On it's first WOF it failed due to rear shocks seeing my chance to replace all the sloppy haddit factory gear I changed the suspension to kyb's front and gab's in the rear (it was hard getting the suspension in New Zealand) and King Spring lows all round. The ride is quite harsh, but it handles okay and 10 times better than the tired factory equipment it had.
I then did the air flow meter relocation which included a spaghetti can somewhere in it and used a greddy filter. The vehicle was sluggish between gears so hoping to fix this I fitted a greddy type rs blow off valve. Disconnecting the TPS seemed to fix this.
One cold night i thought i would give it a blast with the waste gate disconnected.. this was a big mistake and a knocking piston reared it's head. I ignored the knocky piston and installed a modified rx7 series 5 intercooler mounted where the battery was, after the relocation to boot, and piped air from the bumper up to it and lifted the rear of the bonnet.
With the t2, 12 psi and a hot day it ran a best of 15.6 but seriously overheating.
The piston is still knocky and the engine is using a lot of oil. Now it's now time to do things properly as i've been involved at the drags prior to this, i thought it was time to rebuild with the intention of only drag use in the future. That gets us to today and the planning stages of the build.
The intention is to have a car that runs 11's can be driven on the street although a pig and aiming for 350 hp at the fly.
