Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

car as it stands now.....shocking photo

BBS center caps are absent.....had a set of red/gold ones sent from overseas - and had the black ones off in preperation......they arrived on thursday and girlfriend accidentally threw them down the rubbish chute with a bunch of other rubbish before i got home.....devestated! new set on order :/

IMAG0044.jpg

Edited by SMOKEYC34

I bought a new headunit, pioneer one with USB and Bluetooth for $200 cost it was last years one. Pretty happy with that one

I also have a word of warning to ppl thinking of getting alloy radiators, I don't think they can be cleaned like conventional radiators. Mine has blocked up and now heats up on the highway or going uphill for too long :( fml

car as it stands now.....shocking photo

BBS center caps are absent.....had a set of red/gold ones sent from overseas - and had the black ones off in preperation......they arrived on thursday and girlfriend accidentally threw them down the rubbish chute with a bunch of other rubbish before i got home.....devestated! new set on order :/

:O

Lesson learned: ALWAYS get car parts delivered to work (dependant on work site of course).

Oh, and nice looking Stag! :)

:O

Lesson learned: ALWAYS get car parts delivered to work (dependant on work site of course).

Oh, and nice looking Stag! :)

ALWAYS!(needed to be repeated)

my mum nearly put my GTR brakes in hard rubbish lol

car as it stands now.....shocking photo

BBS center caps are absent.....had a set of red/gold ones sent from overseas - and had the black ones off in preperation......they arrived on thursday and girlfriend accidentally threw them down the rubbish chute with a bunch of other rubbish before i got home.....devestated! new set on order :/

Car is looking awesome dude, time for a new gf though? tongue.gif

thanks - it looks much nicer with the caps on and the front lip installed, but had to remove that - driveway entrance to the apartment is too steep and it scrapes.

next step will be vinyl wrap on the roof and mirrors, then detail the engine bay.

got maxima gas struts for the bonnet, and a radiator air guide to install this weekend.

car as it stands now.....shocking photo

BBS center caps are absent.....had a set of red/gold ones sent from overseas - and had the black ones off in preperation......they arrived on thursday and girlfriend accidentally threw them down the rubbish chute with a bunch of other rubbish before i got home.....devestated! new set on order :/

IMAG0044.jpg

Looks tough with those BBS; very nice.:thumbsup:

Time for G/f retraining.:whistling:

well, i decided to get stuck into my stagea exhaust once again,

i currently have a huge Jasma rear cannon AND a set of twin 3" blast pipes that i change between(jasma for long trips, blast pipes for fun)

But the car has been running the blast pipes for the last month or so and i have been getting sick of the massive drone at low revs.

I concocted a simple plan....make some bigger 3.5" blast pipes with hidden hot dogs.

Since i work at a Holden dealer i grabbed a couple of discarded VE SS hot dogs, these are 2.25" and are of high quality.

DSC01513.jpg

i bought a couple of short lengths of 3.5" pipe, and one larger length of 3".

DSC01515.jpg

Previously i have bought premade 2 into 1 collectors, but i figured i'd save some money and make my own

DSC01526.jpg

DSC01527.jpg

the 3.5" pipe was the exact same diameter as the hot dogs, which works well for stealthyness plan

DSC01530.jpg

i attached my homemade collectors, which still had to be trimmed up.

DSC01531.jpg

DSC01536.jpg

after a bit of smoothing with the angle grinder aand a flapper disc, they got a coat of heatproof black paint and were fitted up to my old rear section.

DSC01540.jpg

after running the car for a little while to bake the paint on i took it for a test run.

thecar sound exactly the same, maybe a bit depper, but my annoying drone is all but gone.

and it now pops bigger flames because my tailpipe area is retaining more heat :thumbsup:

You and your flames...

Looks great Robbie, you going to keep them on for the cruise?

definately, these ones have no more drone and a nice note, so they can stay on for good.

my jasma cannon is going to be relegated to the defect clearing section of the shed :whistling:

car as it stands now.....shocking photo

BBS center caps are absent.....had a set of red/gold ones sent from overseas - and had the black ones off in preperation......they arrived on thursday and girlfriend accidentally threw them down the rubbish chute with a bunch of other rubbish before i got home.....devestated! new set on order :/

Looks great man. Excactly what i was going to do.... Are they 19 x 9.5 +22 (per chance :whistling: )From a guy in Brissy??

after running the car for a little while to bake the paint on i took it for a test run.

thecar sound exactly the same, maybe a bit depper, but my annoying drone is all but gone.

and it now pops bigger flames because my tailpipe area is retaining more heat :thumbsup:

Note to self: Don't drive behind Robbie on the next cruise!

the stagea got a fresh sump full of oil this week, the new exhaust, some fresh tyres and a wheel align.

And i finally pulled the centre of my dash apart to fix some rattles and re-route my ipod and av connectors to the centre console.

It turns out that the little tray under the lid is the perfect size for an iphone or ipod :thumbsup:

On the hunt for an immobiliser. And desperate to get it on ASAP due to the recent mass car jacking that took place here in Canberra the other nite. FFFUUUUUU!

I got one of these from an SDU group buy from the US:

http://www.yulontech....asp?infoid=122

It provides location if the car is moved out of a set area...(will send you an sms message with its location) or you can phone it to ask for its location. You can immobilise the car remotely with your cell phone etc etc

was on the Monash Fwy today behind a truck and something fell off it...I had no chance to dodge and it went under the car.

Made some loudass bangs.

Now when I accelerate hard my car makes clicky/rattling noises...great >_<

Checked under the car and now I have 3 bigass dents in the exhaust system...farrrk.

Dropped the oil and topped up with Motul. As usual the filter was on too tight by the previous guy who did it (RVO auto) and I had do the whole stab the filter with the screw driver thing...made a huge mess...arrgh.

also raised the rear suspension by a few cm...hopefully that'll minimise anymore scrapage...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Yeah the ACL and similar formable heat shielding materials are really nice. But most people do not have the patience or talent to do a good job like that. Almost anything is better than nothing though. Even if you didn't form it closely like that and just had a slab of it slipped in between the manifold and somewhere/thing you wanted to protect, you would gain benefit. There has to be a market opportunity for people like Artec to make formed heatshields to suit their cast manifolds. The fact that they are cast means that they are consistently the exact same dimensions and they could add bosses to the castings like you see on stockers to allow heat shields to be firmly attached yet floating away from the manifold itself.
    • I've seen some stuff like this as well, not sure if it's a good idea or anything but it does have more standoff from the piping than the conventional fiberglass wrap:  
    • Jap premium will be 100 RON. You should use 98.
    • The exhaust gases are at their highest temperature as they leave the exhaust port and enter the manifold. They cool as they flow through the manifold because they transfer heat to the manifold and the manifold loses heat to the surrounding environment. Thus, inevitably, the exhaust gases are cooler as they enter the turbo compared to when they entered the exhaust manifold. So, yes, the exhaust manifold can easily get as hot as the turbine housing. Having said that, you will generally see the highest temperatures where the exhaust gases have to slow down or they are concentrated into one area - which is usually the collector on the manifold and in the turbine housing, because the gases slam into the metal at those places, increasing the convective heat transfer coefficient and transferring even more heat to the metal than they might just flowing past elsewhere. Exhaust manifold heat shields are a good idea - certainly for the stock manifold they are there from the factory. People seldom have anything like that on a tubular manifold because they are hard to achieve. Some might wrap a tube manifold with fibreglass tape - but this has a reputation of leading to cracked welds. The best case is generally to put ceramic coating onto the manifold to prevent it getting as hot (internal coating) and radiating/convecting heat into the bay (external coating). All the real heat from a turbo comes from the exhaust side. The gases entering are at ~800-900°C and the steel/iron gets nearly that hot. The compressor side is only going to heat the charge air up to <<200°C (typically not much more than 100°C). So that's nothing, by comparison. The compressor is not a significant source of engine bay heat.
    • Late to the party, specifically joined this forum as I just bought one of these and this thread has been a gold mine of info. If the OP is still around, mind if I ask what gas you been putting in yours? Mine has a Japanese sticker in the cap saying premium but it seems to get way worse mileage on premium (95) than 91. I always thought it was meant to be the other way round🤷 I do think Nissans claimed "6l/100km" is a bit fantastical 😂
×
×
  • Create New...