Same size blower, or one that can move more air?

I have the largest that fits (c38-81) unless I can get the GTM motor mounts that give it the extra space to fit the c38-91.
Bauer used the 81 with an 88mm pulley (and some of the other 1.5 upgrade pieces) and got to 500whp. Sourcing the new intake piece & pulley is the tough part from GTM, emailed & called so far but have not heard back.

If it all falls through I can just dump a new 81 with the same pulley/injectors/etc and touch up the tune for a new SC, but seems like a waste with having to rip it all out already.

Jtran could fab you a new motor mount if that's all you need.

I emailed Amber this morning on the parts list of what I need.
Two things I have found out while working on this upgrade:
-GTM may have customized the pulley offset of the rotrex unit, so they are not off the rack Rotrex pulleys.
-To upgrade to the 91 unit I need their engine mounts

The 1st one I am hoping that with my SC I can either salvage the custom work off it to fit the pulley or have a shop reverse engineer it, and the 2nd I am unsure of so asking around.

It might take sending the car to Jtran for them to tear it apart to see what they can do. Apparently I need to redo the intake piece from the filter to the SC as it has a couple bends that hurts airflow when trying to do smaller pulleys. One reason GTM put the intake filter right under the headers, the other we all know why....:stirthepot:

I live in Texas too. I heard they might do away with that silly law but in the meantime, i yanked that license plate off the front. Only problem now is I have holes in my bumper because the dealer had butchered it.
My son bought a 1998 Mercedes-Benz E300 Turbodiesel and yanked the front license off and when he went to take his driving test the Trouper at DPS refused to let him take his test because he had no license plate on front. He had it in the front window. He will try again next month. A month's wait to go take again. nice..

A quick update, Langley helped (and by help he did most of the work) get the SC off.
Now to send it off and begin looking at upgrades while the car is on jack stands.

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Well time almost an annual update, the Z is slowly being put back together with the help of Chuck. We had some fun with the new engine mount for the 1.5 upgrade kit, but somehow were able to get it in and secure properly. Hoping to tackle a huge chunk of the remaining re-install this weekend and then comes to fun process of dumping fluids that have been sitting for over a year.

We also learned that the original pulley off my seized SC is smaller than the 88mm, and assume it is the 84mm based on the size comparison and quick tape measure measurement. This could get interesting since the 88mm was already pushing the limits of the Rotrex unit but since we have the 84mm we may put it on and will see what happens when we tune.

Goal this go around:
-1.5 kit upgrade
-Migrate to ECUtek
-Flex fuel upgrade (injectors/plus/fuel pump/return) and tune

Love to help out too. This weekend is booked but if you extend into next weekend or beyond hit me up.

Will do, hoping to get it all buttoned up on the re-install this weekend but once that is complete we will stop, then comes the task of dumping all the fluids & fuel and re-loading. We figure the re-install is one weekend, take a break, and return to double check our work and then do fluids, so might be good to have you come and do a look over with fresh eyes before we do fluids.

Just let me know

Well, for those in Houston, Langley is back working in the car world and send the Z off to be put back together by a professional. Life being busy I just want the car together so I can enjoy her again, hopefully start the new year off right.

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Glad to hear and see you getting back in the game in real way! Looking forward to hearing about the new journey.:tiphat:

SHE'S ALIVE!!!
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Looks like she'll be back on the road soon.

Yep, Langley only started the middle of last week on the car, was waiting on a new SC oil cooler and then the fittings on the old one were frozen on so that took another few days.

Going to run it a bit as is, get some running time on the car and then decide what we want to do with the fuel setup. Still looking at e85 but the snowball keeps getting bigger, might look at picking up a GTR manifold which requires other upgrades....:shakes head:

Can you run it as-is without the fuel upgrades?

Yeah, the last tune we had done probably covers 80-90% since in the end, the charge pipes Gamma sent were wrong so the only real change was the new intake pipe to the SC. We think that if we stay under 4-5k and no hard pushes (basic driving) the tune & car seems to run the same. Especially since boost does not even start building until 3,000 RPMs so really it just runs as a normal car with a big whiny piece attached.

Hopefully we managed to give Jason a decent head start putting it back together.

Yeah, saved him a few steps on already having the SC in and the motor mount, he basically bolted the rest on and got her started very quickly. Did uncover that some alternator wires were burned up so needed to replace those and did some cleaning & re-routing of wires with the new SC intake to make sure nothing rubbed or got over heated.

Was he able to get that hose on the sc without pulling it back out?

I think so, he had to take the alternator out I believe to do so but much better than removing the whole thing.

Much, much better. We were going to have to basically start over again, and those damn allen key bolts did not like being tightened and loosened over and over again. We were going to strip one of them out at some point if we had kept at it.

Yeah, those bolts....probably would have been smart for us to take off the exhaust manifold but who wants to do it the easy way.

Dreamer are you planning on running the 1.5 kit with the stg 1 2.5" charge pipes or are you waiting for gamma to send the right ones? Both you and Kentmo280z received incorrect parts, making me a bit skeptical about pulling the trigger on this kit.

Yeah, we'd have been done by day 2 had we bit that bullet. Oh well.

Currently running the stage 1 charge pipes, but need to follow up with Gamma, thank you for reminding me.

Live and learn was fun to wrench and chill in the 100 degree Houston weather a few weekends....:icon14:

As been a hot minute since I gave an update on my Z, a lot has changed on the Z and in life.

370z Finished:
-Nismo wing, side skirts, and front bumper
-Zspeed undertray
-Finished GTM 1.5 kit upgrade
-Re-tune

370z In Progress:
-Hotchkis sway bars
-Transmission mount
-Diff bushings
-Rear subframe bushings
-Catch can

The car has been going strong with a little over 103,000 miles now, since COVID hit the car has turned into my 'daily' but really it is just going to the grocery store so I can get some drive time.

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Dude! Good to know your not dead as there are still a few of us old timers still hanging out and playing the Z game. A lot serious builds going on these days and glad to see you completed yours and that you are still enjoying the old girl.

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I have been hiding and reading on some of the new FI builds over the years, spooler has some great info.

You still driving a fun car? Last I saw was a GT350.

Yes sir, still rocking the 350!