Project Darkline Underway

[NA_R33]

sorry bout the hijacking, the VH45DE is from a Nissan Infinity Q45, nissan's version of the holden statesman, ill be using the standard ECU to start with and if money permits a motec, and if it doesnt a microtech. The engine is all alloy including the heads thats y its so light.

[Guest RedLineGTR]

maybe try and remove some weight from the car in some way or another...about 50kg less makes my car feel so much better..its a cheap way to make it run faster...in acceleration wise.

[Guest RedLineGTR]

also try a emanage...fule and ignition timing...might cost about 1k or a little bit to get it tuned as well...but u can get it with all the parts for like $800+tuning etc. Its around that mark anyways.

[Safra]

From memory I think the US delivered Maxima's also carried the VH45DE. Inparticular the 1991-96 model. I think the post 96 models carried the VH41DE.

dont quote me on those stats though

rod

[Greg]

Darker have you done any of the mods you planned? particularly interested in if you have fitted kings springs yet as i'm planning on getting new springs soon cheers

[nismoman18]

king springs are a good mod greg, not super lows tho they will **** ur shocks totally, just 1.5 lowered, great handling on the track hey!

[Darker]

Heya greg

springs are being fitted on thursday, so I will let you know how she goes then. I have driven a friends line with just kings in, on standard shocks, and it was fairly firm, and not too bumpy, but handled better again, thankfully my shocks are in really good knick according to pedders, so I should be able to get a bit more out before i get some shocks to match.

Exhaust&Cat are being fitted tomorrow. I got a price of $540 for a 2.5" hi flow cat&pipe&muffler and quality too (gotta love knowing the right people) I was waiting on the extractors but they're gonna take another 2 weeks and i wont have any free time then, so that will be later still

SAFC is awaiting install an tuning, but dont wanna do that until the extractors are on.

$$ took a little longer than expected to come in, but this is my big week for getting stuff done.

Cheers

[skyla]

Hi,

I have kings fitted to my car, and still using the standard shocks.

They really help to improve the handling of the car, miles better than standard and not bumpy at all.

It was great to start with, but noticed very quicky (2 months) the deterioration of my factory shocks, now 12,000km later my factory shocks are totally buggered and need to be replaced.

So in my experience, if you can afford to do the shocks at the time you get the car lowered, you might as well go ahead and do the shocks. Just wish we had done it then:(

[Darker]

=)

Exhaust is on, and sounds as great as was expected. I have only really noticed a drop in revs for my normal crusing speeds, and a heck of a lot better response into 3rd and 4th. All in all, very nice.

Springs have been put back to tuesday as they are coming from over east, and the first order is "missing"

[Greg]

update?