Iam not having trouble with heat but I no when I pop the hood after coming back from a good canyon tour you can cook an egg on the motor, heat rises so it makes sense to vent or else it just heat up intake pipes and temp,and then so on and so on, plus the hood looks badass :happydance:

Plus a stillen front bumper and fast intention tow bar cuz that stock tow bar cuts intercooler in half, it's a must have

Tow bar? Front bumper reinforce bar .... that's covering the intercooler.... I didn't think that would matter since the bumper is covering it anyway ....

I took my reinforcement off and well air gets in front of all you car when it goes into your bumper so essentially it is covering it and was gonna ask you guys if it's worth running a heat shield for the intake underneath and also I've always wondered after how many miles do we need to change the supercharger oil? Don't worry I haven't had the kit on for too many miles lol

Belt/Fluid/Filter is every 50,000 miles per Rotrex, but honestly, I would cut that in half. I went through belts every 20-25k miles anytime I did that I changed fluid & filter.

Heat at the intake were my issues during the dyno tune. I 'm not so sure heat would be a problem at speed. But on the dyno, a floor fan is going to help a lot! I did not have a floor fan when I tried tuning with the 88mm pulley. Hence, I could not get power out of that pulley.
Back to the drawing board.

Not sure if the heat shield will help for the intake temps in that location ..mainly need it to protect the filter from melting ....and what would be the essayist way to change the supercharger oil ..I don't really see any drains...so do you just drain the resivor?

Tow bar, reinforcement bar same thing, your tow hook threads into it if car happens to fail

Even the stock front bumper scoops up air to your intercooler, that's the reason for the intercooler, to allow outiside air to pass thru it to cool charge air, that's why hot intake air causes things like detonation and loss of power. You pack a supercharger or even turbo under our already saunas for engine bays and you are upping the temp big time of the incoming air to our plastic intake manifolds, don't get me started on those lol.

Yea I know how the intake temps affect everything ... just didn't think removing the row bar would help very much

Take a look at the one fast intentions sells, could easily be replicated, my reinforcement bar covers a lot of my intercooler,like at least half

In my opinion, I can't see that heat would affect the S.C. intake when at speed.
Idling, yes.. Lot's of heat there..
The crash bar is behind the bumper so I don't know if there's much effect there ..
Somewhat unrelated, I use a Spal fan on my oil cooler. Makes a huge difference.

You guys really don't think that covering half the intercooler has any effect on intake air temps? Even at speeds?

Guess I'll be the guinea pig, carbon fibre ts vented hood and stillen bumper. See how it works out.

Not sure how your guys cars react but on a decently warm day at speed if you don't turn ac on the z gets crazy warm in cabin,almost like the heat from the engine bay has nowhere to go, kinda like the Dodge Vipers back in the 90s, just my opinion.

Yea cover the intercooler woukd affect its cooling ability ...I was saying that even with the bar gone that section will still be covered with the bumper...

Take off supercharger fluid line from the reservoir(the one on top) and place it into empty bottle. This will be your waste fluid. Have your new fluid ready. Have a helper start the car for you. At the same time the old fluid starts to drain into the waste bottle, you keep adding new fluid into the reservoir until you have about 1/4 bottle left of new fluid. At that point have you helper shut off the car. You want some left just incase you need to add it for proper fluid level. Hope that helps.

I have a TS vented hood, with OEM coupe front bumper and standard crash bar.
Sitting in traffic in Houston for over an hour my temps are usually this:
-Water 210F
-Oil Temp 220F
-Intake Air Temp varies depending on outside temp mainly but stopped traffic I over 20-30 degrees over what the car states is the outside temp. I move forward a bit or roll 5-10mph and it drops quickly to 15-20 degrees over ambient

A vented hood works great in the heat and traffic and on the great 100+ days here in Houston can be a life saver, though I try not to drive far on those days or get stuck in traffic.

Oh ya I agree, iam hoping the stillen bumper will help pick up abit better flow thru the intercooler.

Also even if the ts carbon hood doesn't make a huge difference it looks amazing :tup:

I don't really have heavy traffic where I'm at so even on 100+ days my oil temp stays 220 or less and water temp by the OEM gauge is little less than half. I would consider those "normal" operating temps but I think main thing is keeping the intake/charge temp lowest possible. Hottest parts are the location of the intake filter under the header....then the intercooler having most flow to it possiable .

Ya I have my car on the hoist and am trying to figure out a way to incorporate a heat shield for the sc filter.

Jinxx did you drill into your intake for vacuum for your cj fuel regulator?

I T-ed off from the blow-off valve

Damn you guys my oil temps are 180 cruising and the highest I've seen it get during the day while driving for a while is like 190ish- 195 then it drops back down but when I drive I have a Mishimoto 25 row and I live in Florida

Hmm first time ive heard about a fuel regulator what's the point of it I don't think I have one lol

Ordered my fuel return system today... Fast Intentions Fast 500

I have the z1 25 row oil cooler .. but I'm also boosted .. it's location is on the driver side under the headlight .. if it was in the front it would cool even more .... fuel regulator is for the return fuel system upgrade

I'm boosted also and my temps are low my oil cooler is in front of my intercooler if you wanna check out my build my instagram is @dean_z34

200-220 isn't a bad temp ... and I wouldn't block the intercooler to run the oil temp in the 180 range but that's just my opinion on it... and really any way you go .. would it be noticed ?

You just got a 4 T joint instead of the 3 T that comes with the sc kit? Tied it in there?

I had my oil cooler before in the same location as you with a spal fan cruising my temps will usually be at 220 but if I hit it they would rise to like 240 oil cooler just doesn't get enough air to the right side and 180 range is perfect cause it's operating temps but that's also only at night during a hot day it will be around 190

I used 2 .... 2t joints ...to keep them closer to the components

Mine holds at 220 in the hottest days ...even when running aggressively ...I also have my fans tuned to come on sooner so that may be the difference

What oil do you guys run I run motul 5w40 you guys think 5w30 is better ?

I run redline 5w30

I still use stock synthetic oil since dealer gave me free oil changes ...the 5/40 might be too thick in colder temps in Florida it prolly wouldn't hurt ...

I live in south Florida it's always hot here never cold lol

Hey jinxx did you cut your fuel sending unit base?as per to fit a bigger then 255 walbro fuel pump.

Yea I had to cut the base for the 255 pump to fit in and the section that holds the sending unit I used a dremmel to trim it out for the larger sending unit

Hey tiller how's the upgrades coming ever made it to a Dyno yet ? ... I'm been toying with the idea of water/meth injection for mine but worried about chance of it failing ... my boosted performance kit should be ready in a few weeks for my 2017 hoping it does cut my white cars a** too bad lol

Hey jinxx, the new pulley is amazing, lots more torque and comes on real early,like 2700rpm early, just waiting on seb for a retune, weather here is perfect, 16 to 20 degrees Celsius, makes crazy power in this weather, now for some 2 piece z1 rotors to lighten things up on all 4 corners :tup:

i been thinking about adding water/meth to try to increase the torque and hp ...not sure what else I can do for tq.....just got half of my boosted performance turbo kit for my 2017 nismo......that install is just around the corner

Don't know much about the water meth, I know you could go with jwt exhaust cams, there supposed to increase torque

Keep me posted on the single turbo build

Installing this kit was the biggest pain in the a$$ of anything that I've done to this car. And I've done all the work except the clutch. At every turn this kit fought me. Maybe if the engine were removed it would have been a breeze... sheeesh
85 mm pulley change tmrw then start up. I see that my intake filter is melted... Heat wrap next on deck....

Finally got all the pieces in for the boosted performance kit ... will be installing starting June 30 and shooting for startup July 2