And so it begins
 

Begining my journey to join the boosted club tonight.
I purchased TopgunZ's used set up his SC, fuel pump, fuel return system, ID 1000, fuel rails, GTR PLUGS and of COURSE his A2A upgrade kit.
I am beyond excited to see how my car reacts to it.
Wish me luck, and I am open to suggestions and advise on things to look out for during the install.
Seb will be doing my tune again and already have the base tune.
:happydance:

In a few weeks I'll have some parts to sell, like G3 intake, Berks HFC with oil and dry filters.

I plan on taking a similar journey next year...F.I. TT and all the fixin's from Specialty Z.

Enjoy the Ride!

Made decent progress Friday and Saturday. Replaced fuel pump, fuel rails and injectors, installed the supercharger and 34row oil cooler and the 19row trans cooler. I need to make a different mounting bracket for the trans cooler it got in the way of the A2A intercooler. hopefully I will have time tomorrow to make it.

Can you just add on a couple rectangle pieces of aluminum with a hole drilled in each?

Are you going for a local tune or remote? Seb's done several of these and would be a great choice.

Seb tuned my car when I had all my bolt on's and has already sent me a base tune. I agree Seb is DA man for tuning!

I Finished the install yesterday, walbro 340 fuel pump, return fuel system from CJ Motorsports, ID 1000 injectors, Stillen SC, and TopgunZ's A2A upgrade.
What an experience for me and my Son, couldn't have done it with out him. Now I need to data log as much as possible for Seb to fine tune it. I'm not worried how much horse power it makes, it was more for the experience with my Son.

I have been very busy at work and haven't been able to log for my remote tune . So it's a slow process, Sebastian has been more than patient. I was able to do WOT today and holy moley she is a beast. Can't wait to have it all dialed in.

Just wait till you put the higher psi pulley set on. A whole new smile will appear.

Congrats on the fun!

Soho made 515

Frandy made higher than that on stillen injectors and pump and meth. He said he was going to post...waiting

post some pic..

I will post pics as soon as I remember how to.
I know you have to upload them to a hosting site then link them here.
I haven't had time to research it yet.

I seen this car is running without a filter also to make those numbers. In the FI finished build sticky he states it has an "intake delete" and you can see in the pic of his bay there is not filter on the sc. In doing so he is also making 15psi to get there on the water setup. How long is that motor going to last? Put a filter on there and it will drop to 9 or 10 psi and make around 450. The 378 tq is kinda low and that would drop to the 320's.

Im not trying to bash it, just dont want to see others think that is a good idea. Not worth it.


For what its worth...if you want to run filter-less on the A2A kit it will make over 600whp. Or 500's and 400's tq with the high quality K&N filter it includes.

The customer is planing on running a turbo gaurd as they were three to four weeks behind when he contacted them to get one.

Is it a track car only then? Turbo guards protect just that, the turbo, they do nothing for keeping dust and other small debris out of the engine bay. My friend ran one and after a summer we pulled the intake off and you could wipe dirt off the sidewalls with your finger.

I would think this coats the intercooler fins internally also, decreasing efficiency.

Why not do an A2A and make that kind of power WITH a filter? He already lost CARB cert anyway. Plus he would pick up some torque and he could upgrade and make even more.

Hey guys very. Interesting debate going on weather using an air filter or not is worth the gains verses damage to the engine.
But you mind not thread jacking me.

Sorry, The FI section has just been so dead lately...lol.

Ok, almost done with the build for now. I just received the last piece of hardware, my custom A pillar pod made by Jason Gale@3Gcustoms for my A/F and boost gauge. I am going with the AEM fail-safe A/F and boost gauge in one. Tuning will go faster now that I don't have to have someone riding along and watching the A/F ratio on my laptop to make sure I don't hurt the motor. It will be nice to see what my boost numbers look like also.
Galeforce does great work looks factory but nicer!

Nice, don't forget the sheet when dyno is done. really want to see what the out comes.

You were going to go less aggressive at first correct? Didn't you go back to the stock pulley setup for now and then down the road you were going to put the setup I had on, on?

Yes using stock pullies until I can have the A7 built by level 10 to handle the torque.
Next year built trans, pulley swap and E85.
😀

I know I haven't posted my results yet but their is a good reason.

I dislocated and broke my ankle BOTH bones in late November. I had to have a plate and 9 screws put in it to hold it all together till it heals. I am now able to walk with out crutches but still wearing one of those HUGE walking boots you pump up. Hopefully in 3 to 4 weeks I'll be able to drive my baby again and I'll get her on the dyno and post results.

Wow!! Just get better buddy.

YzGyz

Updates, car has been running awesome very conservative tune since I have a stock 7at.
Well Pat at level 10 is building me a bullet proof trans rated at 1000hp. While the trans is out I'll be installing the 9lb pulley.
Should be an even more fun daily for me.
Looks like I'll need to be saving up for tires and lawyers for the tickets.

The combo of a quality radar detector and laser jammers have kept me ticket free since boosting =)

Did you get the 928motorsports super vortech premium upgrade? That would go well with the pulley swaps :D

What is your solution to prevent belt slip?

cupcakes, no I Have not done the 928 upgrade i have the vortech SI impeller, that and the 9Lb pulley should be more then enough for a fairly reliable daily ride. Cant wait to get my Transmission back.

Is our stock trans unable to handle pulley swaps for more boost? 7AT trans?

Pulley swap, the trans can handle. I hope to be right around 500/375ish with the 9lb pulley, the Si trim impeller and TBatt's no-slip setup

Add E85, 928's impeller and overspinning it more, and you're looking at crossing the line. Looking at threads pre-SC install, it seems that 450wtq is the average limit for the stock A7.

Oh okay. I was asking because I am having a mobile mechanic who is experienced in SC rebuilds, rebuild my blower for me with the 928 super vortech upgrade I ordered. That and then I will do a pulley swap.
I still have a stock trans that ill replace next year (the 1000whp trans from level10).
I do have a stage 4 IPP engine but no upgraded trans yet.

Im sure I wont exceed 450 torque wirh what Ill have
a2a kit and 91 octane for now. ill run e85 later next year when i decide for a trans upgrade.

Thanks for the information!

Si trim sc, 9lb pulley, I hit 386 torque on 91 octane. Adding e85 brought it up to 440.

I wondee how much diff is in torque and WHP the premium 928 upgrade for SCi trim versus the sole SI trim is without 928?
And then SI trim WITH 928 is probably better than both of the said listed above I assume!

Like if I did triple pulley swap with no e85 but had 928 premium upgrade on SCi?

And 91 octane.

Pulleys being:
3.0 and 3.47 on supercharger side
9psi pulley on jackshaft side (directly on the otherside of the 3.0 inch)

I made 454 WHP and 330 WTRQ for 3 days before the motor quit with only 18K miles, Granted this was 6 years ago and before we all knew the MAF's where really in the wrong place :/. I guess I could say I help with us knowing how faulty the kits was :(. I also talked a lot with Top gun before he released his kit :). I wish his kit was available back in 2012.

http://www.the370z.com/forced-induct...00-whp-20.html

What? Your motor gave out because of the bad locations regarding the MAF's?
Or was it because too much WTRQ / WHP with what you had in your car?
Or both?

And yours was AT or MT?

7spd auto,, Cyl 3 toook a dump , I was driving getting off the hyw and heard RAPPING noise of the guard rail.

We all know why cylinders drop and the MAF's being BEFORE the SC doesn't help with metering air intake temp and pressure I was running 13 PSI I had all the necessary upgrades. Upgraded heat exchanger, UP graded MAFS. injectors and pump and still BOOM

I have been running stillen sc with topgunz air to air upgrade with stock pullies for 20, 000 miles so far with a stock 7a trans. It's a conservative tune just over 400whp and my trans is starting to slip and have issues. I'm getting the level 10 upgrade in the next 2 weeks. I thought the trans would hold up with the SC being low torque and a mild tune but it wasn't to be. After trans upgrade I'll install my 9 lb pulley and tune more for performance. I can't wait to see how she reacts!

Gives me something to look forward to.... 8k on mine now, with probably less conservative of a tune