Turbo X-trail

[XxNinjaxX]

This is a sweet idea, i work at nissan and x-trails are quite a nice car to drive. i believe if you love your car who cares what it is! its YOUR car and obviously means the world to you. like ive got a 1993 R33 gts-t, its lowered, booted to 10psi,has a frontmount and 17" drift teks...i wouldnt trade it for anything cause its my pride and joy. good on you mate for being unique!

[thrtytwo]

This is a sweet idea, i work at nissan and x-trails are quite a nice car to drive. i believe if you love your car who cares what it is! its YOUR car and obviously means the world to you. like ive got a 1993 R33 gts-t, its lowered, booted to 10psi,has a frontmount and 17" drift teks...i wouldnt trade it for anything cause its my pride and joy. good on you mate for being unique!

so true, doesnt matter what car it is, might not be meant to be a sport car or anything, if you love it, and modify it nicely, i got respect for that

its just wankers in family cars that are STOCK that think theyre hot shit that get on my nerve (stock v6 commonwhores)

great build mate ! cant wait to see final power figure and 1/4 mile time

[Bunta]

Who ever sent that PM is a douche, your project is different and has been executed well. Your end goal is not to have somthing to beat a GTR in outright performance but rather have a practical daily car with better than average poke. So congratulations person who sent the PM you are a squeezer who has totally missed the point.

[NA_Goodness]

There you go Cam, the positives have far outweighed the negatives here! It's hard to stand out and be different these days, but you've very much succeeded! Plus I've seen this car in the flesh, and I'm telling you now this isn't just a thow together job! The whole thing is quality, no denying it.

I've had that before mate. At a large car show a year ago where the majority of cars were V8s. As we were driving in, one of my mates heard two old guys saying "This would have been a great show, but that Jap Crap just ruined it". Just ignore them mate, they'll never say it to your face!!

Keep up the excellent work

[StealthX]

nawww I'm getting all emotional here! haha

cheers fellas!

More progress:

test fit:

water lines:

manifold with new t25 flange:

engine bay now:

new vs. old:

check out all the oil i found in the turbine housing of the old turbs:

booked in @ hyperdrive for the 16th

Edited April 9, 2010 by turbo x-trail

[zebra]

looking good.....its funny how close the physical size of the 2 are...almost identical

[StealthX]

yeah true, but even more strange how the Garrett flows almost 100hp more air!

The big difference is obviously the centre housing and the compressor housing is heaps more chunkier!

Edited April 9, 2010 by turbo x-trail

[zebra]

Have you driven it with the new turbo yet?

Just watch you dont get an funky boost issues with the new flange welded on.

[StealthX]

Nah havn't driven it yet 'cos the dump still needs to be modified to suit a 5 bolt, the old turbo was a 4 bolt.

Plus it's not tuned for this new turbo yet...

Should be fine (I hope) 'cos the guy at the exhaust place tapered the edges of the flange for better flow.

I'll watch out for it though, good point...

[R34 -_-]

people expect GT-R's etc to be fast so when he's driving around and he boosts it im guessing alot of ppl would be like " ohhh is that it???" haha then you drive past and they'l be like "pssh this thing wont be fast...." vssssssssssssssshhhh pssssshhhh " DUDE THAT THINGS TURBO'D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SIIIIIIIIICK" lol i rest my case.

[NA_Goodness]

Yeah, what he said...

Looks like I might have to crank out the camera again soon!

[Lucius]

Very nice build.... home grown X-Trail GT of sorts..

[StealthX]

Yeah I'd love to own/modify a GT... So rare though... Only 500 ever made and they're in crazy demand for their SR20VETs...

In other words I've gotta beat all the other Silvia owners to one, cos a heap of people wanna buy a full GT just for the engine!

This build has really opened my eyes up, cos with the coilovers and some decent wheels, along with the 240whp I hope to make, I don't imagine it'll perform that bad at all... I never thought that a big, lofty SUV could perform well. But at the end of the day it's only 1350kgs, got AWD, independent suspension, and some decent power to go with it!

Plus I've always been a fan of sleepers too!

I'm almost done with the turbo conversion, just need to wait for the water line adaptors to come in the mail, I need them before thursday cos it's booked in for the new dump to be made on Friday and also booked in Friday arvo to go to Hyperdrive for the tuning, and I don't wanna move the tuning back another week!

More pics soon...

[chykan]

Hey mate love the car.

I drive a 2004 Ti-L as my daily driver, I have an RB25det 240Z, used to have a 300ZX.

Get an Alutec Strut bar for your X-Trail it will be the best $250 you ever spend on it. I run standard Suspension.

I drive my car 43km to work each way on a Targa Tasmania Stage. The strutbar takes all the chassis tram out, I do not have juddering front wheels now when I take a corner hard.

The Xtrail does not get me to work much slower than the 300ZX used to and it is corners all the way. 25mins-30mins to drive 43km (at the speed limit roughly, on windy roads plus 3km of gravel)

I also upgraded to Bob Jane 19" rims with Federal Super Steel 595, 245/40ZR. Holds like crap to a blanket now even in the wet. I am always catching up to cars not them me.

You will have to be careful with your rim selection for your X-Trail, Bob Jane would only sell me Load Rated rims for my Xtrail, but for some reason with the 2002 model I do not think you have to have Load Rated rims.

By the way I only skimmed through your build. Do you have a set of exractors for a non turbo X-Trail?

Edited April 18, 2010 by chykan

[StealthX]

Hey man thanks for the advice! I've been meaning to get a strutbar asap, just havnt got round to it yet. It's the next thing I think. Your advice has tipped me over the edge lol

I don't have my old extractors I sold them... I've got a pair of standard ones but I doubt you would be interested in them... I had OBX ones on my car before the turbo and swore by them... Cheap on eBay if you wanna have look.

Everythings done now except for the tune... Goin in on Friday.

Here's a video of my turbo's flutter revving I neutral...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1o-WXLleJ

p.s. Can someone tell me how to embed a YouTube video in a post? I can't figure it out with BB code...

[ahh 33 s2]

i dont no if its just me but that youtube link is not going to a video, just some other page

[chykan]

Hey man thanks for the advice! I've been meaning to get a strutbar asap, just havnt got round to it yet. It's the next thing I think. Your advice has tipped me over the edge lol

I don't have my old extractors I sold them... I've got a pair of standard ones but I doubt you would be interested in them... I had OBX ones on my car before the turbo and swore by them... Cheap on eBay if you wanna have look.

Everythings done now except for the tune... Goin in on Friday.

Here's a video of my turbo's flutter revving I neutral...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1o-WXLleJ

p.s. Can someone tell me how to embed a YouTube video in a post? I can't figure it out with BB code...

I sent you a pm regarding the extractors before I read this post, please disregaurd.

Do you have any details and pricing for the extractors. I know there is a full exhaust system for sale on xtrails australia. but $2500 is a bit much really, for a daily point A point B car. Especially when I have a RB25DET powered 240Z and a few other cars.

I have done some reading on the X-Trails and by the looks of it the Australian delivered X-Trails were detuned. Do you know of a chip that can bring the engine back to JDM spec? or would you just buy a JDM ECU that come from a japanese X-Trail?

Also those GT Xtrails with the SR20 VVL Neo motors in them look the go, too bad there was only 500 made and probably rare as rocking horse shit to get hold of.

[StealthX]

Nah the series 1 xtrails that came in australia had 132kw, the most for

an NA engine in an exy, then the series 2 (late 2003 - 2007) were down tuned to 125, which is what they make now. They are down tuned by a second cat converter and different fuel trims. There's no chips or anything that give you that extra power, the best thing I'd do is put a decent full exhaust. Don't pay that 2500+ for that one on Australian xtrails it's wayyyy over priced... Get a 250-300 set of extractors from eBay then yet the rest cutsom made, my 3" stainless steel turbo-back exhaust with a decent stainless cat converter and some good mufflers, cost me less than 800 bucks. Then you'll pick

up about 10-15wkw plus you'll have a great note! The QR25 has a great sound so bring it out as much as possible...

I'd love to get a hold of a gt, but it's pointless now cos I'm making more power than one would anyway!

SR20vet.... Hmmmmm... :)H

[chykan]

Nah the series 1 xtrails that came in australia had 132kw, the most for

an NA engine in an exy, then the series 2 (late 2003 - 2007) were down tuned to 125, which is what they make now. They are down tuned by a second cat converter and different fuel trims. There's no chips or anything that give you that extra power, the best thing I'd do is put a decent full exhaust. Don't pay that 2500+ for that one on Australian xtrails it's wayyyy over priced... Get a 250-300 set of extractors from eBay then yet the rest cutsom made, my 3" stainless steel turbo-back exhaust with a decent stainless cat converter and some good mufflers, cost me less than 800 bucks. Then you'll pick

up about 10-15wkw plus you'll have a great note! The QR25 has a great sound so bring it out as much as possible...

I'd love to get a hold of a gt, but it's pointless now cos I'm making more power than one would anyway!

SR20vet.... Hmmmmm... H

Ok, I thought I noticed a bit of a power change when I got my 2004. with the fuel trims is that a computer contolled setting or a harware thing?

[StealthX]

Computer controlled. The whole purpose of the 2nd cat converter was to pass stricter emissions testing, (EURO 3 I think...) so along with the 2nd cat, the state of tune was somewhat subdued... I'm not sure exactly how Nissan went about this, I'm guessing they just took some timing out and/or made the mixtures a tad richer/leaner.

If you want to get that 7kw back (and a few NM of torque too - that's probably what you feel the lack of in the '04 model), the best way to do it is get either an after market exhaust make up that rids of the 2nd cat converter, AND find an ECU from a < October 2003 x-trail. But if i were you i wouldnt bother, the potential risks outweigh the gain - those fvcking electronic throttles are soo sensitive... Just get a decent flowing exhaust/single cat and live with the fact that your car no longer has factory emissions