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Easily dropped 30lbs off the car by switching from the stock large resonator mid-pipe to the coupe mid-pipe. The exhaust has a slightly deeper tone to it so there's probably a little better flow. The front part of the piping rests against the tunnel support (driveshaft catch bar). Planning on hammering that bar up just a tad to provide the needed clearance in order to cut down on the vibration and noise experienced with the exhaust touching the body of the car. -
The Crawford plenum. They offer it coated black for less or polished for a little more. Looks nice and should do the trick. https://www.crawfordz.com/premiumplenum.htm
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Okay, I've just seen the Crawford plenum and now I'm thinking that would be better than the Kinetix V+ and the spacer. Anyone have experience with the Crawford plenum?
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I must have confused that with a different exhaust system. Yeah, I found the Nismo for US$750 here in Japan. Not bad at all. I may go that route a bit later.
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Okay, good to know. If I find one used I would be interested because a Nismo full exhaust probably runs $1500-2000 and I'm not putting that much money into my Stagea exhaust system while I have a drag R32 GTR that demands most of my resources.
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As much as I would like to do a CAI, it just rains too much here in Okinawa. It's very tropical and we have typhoons that dump a couple feet of water on us in one day at times. I don't need the filter getting wet and hydrolocking the engine. What's the deal with the R2C filter? I know it's not oiled. Does it perform that much better than the oiled ones (K&N, JWT, etc.)? Will an R2C filter fit inside a Stillen box?
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I already have a Blitz drop in filter and opened the front of the stock air box. But I want something with a venturi and a Z-tube at a minimum. Not really sure whether that's going to be a stock V36/Z34 air box or a JWT pop-charger or a Stillen.
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As far as the exhaust, I don't want to do too much with it because I don't want it excessively loud. So I think the coupe mid-pipe fits perfectly for what I want out of the exhaust for now. If there are other exhaust upgrades that will increase flow without increasing the sound to a ridiculous level, I'm all ears. I'm thinking headers and maybe HFC (high flow cats) but not sure. Does anyone know if the Fujitsubo is the quietest cat back exhaust available? Does the resonator canister (not the piping) hit the driveshaft hoop? If so, a hammer might help that problem. Since I got the pipe cheap, I don't mind roughing it up a bit to fit.
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Same brake kit as Erop's post above mine. Silver Infiniti calipers. I will post up some photos to the garage section and link the photos to the post later. Yes, the kit includes the calipers, slot rotors, pads, hardware kit, and SS lines. I NEEDED front brakes at the time because my stock single pistons needed to be rebuilt and my pads and rotors were shot. I still have some pad life left in the stock rears so I was going to wait until the rear pads are almost gone before ordering the Akebono rears. I think they run $700 or so from Z1 Motorsports and the SS line kit I have from ordering the fronts included the rear lines. Impressions? Night and day difference. The Akebonos are AWESOME. No more brake pedal pulsing and spongy brakes. My GTR's had me spoiled so I had to upgrade.
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My car does have a rear sway bar. The point I was making was that if the sway bar is different from the Skyline sedan and it fits, I could swap it so the coupe mid-pipe won't hit it.
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Upgraded the front brakes to Akebono from Z1 Motorsports in the states. It ran about US$1100 including SS lines and Hawk HPS pads.
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Everything I've read on the stateside forums say that the coupe mid-pipe is a good, easy, and cheap upgrade in both flow and sound for the sedan. But I haven't heard about any fitment issues so I wonder if the sedan sway bar will fit in the wagon? I can get a stock rear sedan sway bar from the junkyard for cheap so I may give this a try. As another alternative, I may order an aftermarket sway bar set, but will the sedan ones fit? See this is why I created this thread. Stagea parts are very hit and miss compared to the parts available for the V series Skylines. Yes, I planned on cleaning up the plenum once I order and receive either the Kinetix V+ plastic plenum or MD 5/16th spacer. I haven't decided which one yet. I am also going to block off or make the EGR hole smaller and add an oil catch tank to cut down on the crap entering the plenum. And I'll order the Stillen cold air box intake with Z-tube at the same time.
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When you say that only the Stagea exhaust will fit the Stagea, are you referring to the muffler (axle back section) only? Because I just eyeballed the the coupe mid-pipe I have and it is the same length and shape (piping -- not resonator which is the point of switching it) as my stock Stagea. Also, what about the headers? The cat pipes and y-pipe look the same as Skylines as well. Am I missing something? Keep in mind that my Stagea is RWD.
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M35 Nismo Ecu For Sale!
rickskylinebnr32gtrjp replied to Lakes101's topic in For Sale (Private Car Parts and Accessories)
No doubt. I have an NA VQ30DD so that 2.5 one wouldn't work for me. Osiris (USA) won't do a tune on my ECU either. Any other suggestions? -
Wtb . M35 Rear Wing.
rickskylinebnr32gtrjp replied to jacknessA31's topic in For Sale (Private Car Parts and Accessories)
I would like to get one too, but they are crazy expensive and not very many options. -
M35 Nismo Ecu For Sale!
rickskylinebnr32gtrjp replied to Lakes101's topic in For Sale (Private Car Parts and Accessories)
Are these Nismo and Impul ECU's for the turbo models only? -
Well, I tried to swap my Stagea huge brick mid-pipe for the coupe one (made in China copy it appears...from eBay so no surprise really). I had problems removing 2 of my 4 exhaust bolts. The nut stripped on one and the other one stud snapped off with the head still pressed into the flange. UGH!! I guess that's what I get for trying to work on a 12 year old rusty exhaust. Going to try again on Saturday morning to cut through the stripped nut and drill through the remaining part of the pressed in stud. If these had been standard bolts instead of pressed in studs, I would have been able to overcome with the limited time I had to work on the exhaust yesterday. I miss the old way Nissan used real bolts...(R30, R32, etc.) Now I'm running around with a rattling exhaust due to one of the flanges only having one bolt holding it in place... Thanks for the advice on the headers. Assume you are talking about stock parts, correct? And I would imagine that the 3.5 headers are the same as the 3.0. I think I heard something about aftermarket headers not always clearing because of the steering rack rod being on the other side of the car than the US Spec G models. When you refer to V, do you mean V35/36? And G refers to G35/37? G models are shorter than V models meaning the US Spec are shorter than JDM spec? Not sure if I'm following the logic.
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I am in Okinawa, Japan and have an M35 Stagea 300RX RWD with VQ30DD. I have done a few mods to it and was very interested in what types of after-market parts will work (cross reference) from the Skyline VQ series, G35/37, and VQ series Z cars. So far, I have added a JP Simple Style front lip, Infiniti G37S Akebono front brake kit, R35 GTR early model 20-inch rims, Tein suspension. Right now I am interested in intakes, plenums & engine/harness covers, and exhaust systems. I believe that most if not all of the plenum (spacers) and intake mods (Z-tube, Stillen, JWT Pop-charger) should bolt right up. I was debating on whether to go with the Kinetix V+ plastic plenum or to go with the MD 5/16" spacer with ISO thermal kit. And as far as intakes, the Stillen w/ Z-tube looks best considering the cold air box and how hot it is here most of the year. Do all of the front strut bars from the Skylines and Z's bolt up with no issues? I realize that there is somewhat of a selection of exhaust systems for the Stagea, but would the G35 sedan exhaust systems match up? If not, what is different? I just ordered a stock G35 coupe mid-pipe so I'm hoping that it bolts right up without an issue. I heard that all of the mid-pipes measure the same length except the Z cars which are shorter. Is there any more info that people can share? Are the headers, cat pipes, y-pipe (or xyz? pipe), and axle back mufflers all basically the same from one car to the next? I was considering getting an axle back muffler like HKS or Fujitsubo offers for the Skyline 350GT sedan but not sure if it will fit.
