Exhaust\Intake setup - needs some advise

Chuck33079

Get an OBD scanner or water temp gauge, then. Switch to straight water and water wetter. Then see if the water temps are in line with what you should be seeing. The stock gauge isn't linear, and it's kinda hard to tell exactly how hot it's running. A vented hood would do wonders as well, especially since rain really isn't something you should be too worried about. Given your climate, if you plan on a lot of track time Z1's power steering cooler might need to be on your list as well.

At the end of the day, gears and a better diff would make you faster around the track than swapping out bolt ons.You can switch to TPs or headers, but you'll only pick up ~10whp over the HFCs you have and it's not a cheap move once you factor in labor.

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AlWakRa

He should be an idiot to not know how a vq37 should sound.


Appreciate the informative replay, I will be looking in OBD scanners to get for sure, vented hood is something I was looking for, I checked if I can get a lightweight + vented hood but looks like I will be going on having vents on OEM hood.

Yeah labor cost is a consideration, but If I am going to spend, I want to make it in one go, however I found art pipes somehow locally, I will try to work it out and I will do the swap and sell my HFC, otherwise I will stick with what I got.

Coilovers, alignment kit, diff, gears would wait until I find the car limiting me.

Rains this year were more than what we used to but I drove the car just one time in rain (returning from track), climate isn't bad, but I don't want the car to limit me when it's quite hot. Mostly, it will be under 30 Celsius (86 F) because the season begins on September, but there is odd days where it could reach 40 C (104 F). This summer some claims it has been as high as 140 F .


So, this decides it, either Z1 or Stillen CAI and position Mine's air scoops to blow air on them directly. Prefer them as dry filter is an option

as far as hood, yeah it is consideration, right, as we are already talking about track setups will a vented fenders do their job?




Thanks a lot JARblue and Chuck for being informative

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JARblue

AEM and R2C make a dry filter for the stock air boxes Although the R2C ones have been virtually impossible to find, I just recently heard there was a ship somewhere in the Atlantic with them on its way here.

I doubt vented fenders by themselves are sufficient for full on track brake cooling. Stillen makes a brake cooling kit you want. Although you'll need a Stillen or OEM non-Nismo front bumper to install it without modification. And the kit for the OEM bumper costs extra.

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BGTV8

^^^ I agree