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I'm guessing you're going to have to push the engine further back (meaning modifying the firewall) or get creative with the radiator. I put a v8 in a 350z and even that was getting tight on the length.

I have the same wheels and was looking to do the same upgrade, but I see your centers are mounted on the backside of the barrels (not standard), do you think the calipers would still clear if the barrel was mounted on the other side?

Absolutely, if you're not spooling diesel you're not doing it right.

I am 99% sure it's in the valley under the plenum, I"ll have a look when I go in as I have the plenum off already. As for your code question sorry can't help you there, I do not use the stock ecu and I've never scanned it.

I'm sure the above is right but I can check my o2 sensor for a part number next time I go to my workshop, I have 2 sitting on a shelf.

Intercooler piping time, excuse the mess around my car. I will acid and clean up all the welds and polish the pipes a bit but that will happen much much later. This is mostly it for the intercooler pipes, I still need to roll a bead on the end of the pipes for the silicone joiners, weld on flanges for the blow off valves and weld on bungs for water meth injection nozzles

I moved onto the radiator and intercooler, seeing as my turbos are at the front a radiator wouldn't fit in the stock position so I got a universal radiator that fits under the radiator panel. It's a fairly small radiator but it obviously needs to be to fit under the panel and it's really thick and dual pass. I chopped off the filler neck, had to weld some legs on the bottom (it now mounts into the stock AC slots using stock skyline lower radiator rubbers), also had to weld some tabs on the top so I could mount some rubber mounts on the top. Don't really have any pics installed except for the last one here showing the intercooler but it fits nicely and makes the engine bay look a lot cleaner. I still need to tidy it up and clean the tabs I cut off the bottom. This is more or less my first time welding aluminium so don't judge me too much. My new core + ends tanks (one is missing as I already started welding it) A few hours later and I have this Mock up install, I test fit the front bumper support as well and it's a close fit I just need to trim about 20mm where the intercooler sits as it's too thick, the width is what I was more concerned about where I have the 2x 90 degree pipes up the top, there is about 10mm clearance between them and the brackets for the front bumper support so everything is good. You can't tell from this picture but the intercooler is on quite an angle, the angle follows those headlight motor supports so the bottom is tucked in quite a bit. I have been working on the intercooler piping as well, I'll update this next time when all the piping is complete from the turbos and to the inlet.

Obviously not photography but there was no other section to post this.. just thought I would share some drawings my wife has done

If it has spark and fuel then your timing is probably wrong one way or another, I've seen it before where people have snapped the half moon in the CAS and don't put it back in the right place. Take your CAS off and see if the half moon is still in tact and make sure you slide it back in at the proper position.

Progress update pic Plan is to do intercooler and piping next

Can't really comment on real world results, but after a lot of research I ended up getting falken RT615k+ they come in 255/40/17 and at the time seemed to be the best price wise to grip ratio and also apparently good in the wet, if I didn't care about wet performance at all then I might've chosen something else. I don't have them on my car yet so I don't know what they're really like.

It really is a test of my patience, when I first started this project I was pretty fast and hard but I thought I should do it right and do it once. I don't plan on selling it or making money or whatever so I'm just doing it all as best as I can for myself.

Thanks I appreciate it. I knew the single would give me the power I wanted, but it wouldn't have looked as nice and I would of had to make some holes and chop up things on the body to run the piping. That's why I call it the slow 180sx.. mainly because of how slow the build is, hopefully it's not too slow when it's on the road. If I can get it running and tuned by the end of the year I'll be very happy, unfortunately my work will take me out the country off and on for 3 months at the end of the year so maybe I won't see it running this year.

Lots of sanding and polishing and touching up the welds to get the smooth look. Thanks, I wish a had a magical source as well. The more I work on this thing and the more custom bits I make I really just wish I could buy some of this stuff off the shelf. It would make more sense to spend the money on something rather than the huge amount of time it takes. Yes all tig welded, I also have a gas/gasless mig which is also setup for flux core at the moment. It's good for the more industrial stuff and it's a lot quicker as well, too bad it's so messy and a bit annoying when you have the clean the weld if you want to weld over a section again. A bottle and .6mm will definitely be a step in the right direction, tig is too much of an investment unless you're going to be using it all the time.

Hopefully these pictures make sense. Basically it all started out as 3inch stainless pipe and some flat sheet, the pipe was cut in half down the length of the pipe and the sheets filled in the top and bottom gap. While it takes time, not a huge amount of skill is required, I am definitely not a metal sheet worker.

Rail from: http://www.vpw.com.au/Category/Index/473109 The intake is stainless and I made it.

Exhaust manifolds done And everything is purge welded for the extra 50hp

Sorry only just saw this now, from what I found they are very similar, but it looks like people can squeeze a bit more out of the apexis

I've been doing a lot of boring work on the car.. like getting the handbrake to work and modifying the cd009 shifter, I'll put some pictures of this work up later. Anyway to give myself some motivation I quickly tacked on the rest of the piping needed for the turbos and bolted them on.. they look small in the engine bay

I'm aiming for around the 350kw mark and the t517zs looked to be a good option and there seems to be some good results from them on here and other gtr sites. Really the only reason I got the apexi turbos was because I got a good deal on a rebuilt pair, if I found some good t517zs before the apexis showed up I would have gone with them, they both seem like good options.

I was looking at getting some t517z, but ended up getting some second hand apexis, the previous owner was making 470kw on stock manifolds, so I don't think you need these at all for your goal

Very small update, nothing too exciting unfortunately. I just got back from holiday and I'm trying to find time where I can. I knew I had to get bigger injectors and unfortunately the VQ30 comes with side feeds, the biggest stock ones I could find were 550cc I think and possibly 700cc de-capped and neither of those really fit my needs or what I wanted. So I decided to go for top feed and I chose 1000cc Xspurts. This also meant making sme top feed fuel rails, so I ordered 1 meter of blank fuel rail, cut it to length and so far I have only center punch the holes for the injectors. I need to go buy a 13.5mm drill bit tomorrow to drill the holes. After a small lapse in judgement I am back on track, I bought some twins that came off a GTR. I got the dyno sheet for the car these came off, it did 631hp on 1.4bar and apparently they had more left in them. I just had to rotate the CHRA around to make it work as it was pretty much 180 degrees out being off a gtr.

Pretty sure the left most button is for the wing mirrors, makes them move when you open the door