R33 Stock Turbo Upgrade

[MrIrons]

No worries I'll steer clear of it. Thanks

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Don't 3582 if its a daily. Will need plenty of supporting mods including Ecu.

It's a huge turbo compared to stock

I drove an unopened RB25 with a 3076 bolted up to the side and I thought that was hella laggy, can't imagine how laggy a 3582 would be lol...

nothing, nothing, nothing, (4500rpm) something, soemthing, (5000rpm) BAM LIGHT SWITCH ROCKET, rev limiter

[MrIrons]

What are you guys (those of you running highflowed/bigger turbos) running in terms of ECU? Have you just got a remap or are you running aftermarket ECU modules like Wolf3D or Microtech?

[cherring]

I'm running a Nistune, works great, lot's of people have PowerFCs from what I can tell, and the Link G4 seems to be gain popularity, especially amongst people who want to run flex fuel tunes.

[Moodles2]

A highflow at 7psi (depends on the highflow profile) shouldn't trigger R&R, it might on a very very cold night.

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

What are you guys (those of you running highflowed/bigger turbos) running in terms of ECU? Have you just got a remap or are you running aftermarket ECU modules like Wolf3D or Microtech?

if you're going highflow and want to keep the stock injectors/afm etc.. and don't want crazy power.. just get a nistune or toshi to reflash your stock ECU (he uses some funky daughter board that's not nistune and solders it on)

[MrIrons]

Yeah looked into nistune. For the price and what I want that's what I'll be getting. Thanks, everyone's been super helpful

[Toshi]

I have Nov and Dec special.

Nistune Z32 ecu tune for std turbo $1100 include ecu and nistune board.

Nistune Z32 ecu tune for hiflow turbo only $1150 include ecu and nistune board.

This price only 4 cars.

R33 ecu tune is from $700

[Fornoyd20]

I hi flowed my 33 turbo a few years back and bolted it back up ran around 9-10 psi and car did not like it at all so I had to upgrade ecu,luckily enough the American dollar was crazy good at the time and I ended up getting a pfc delivered to my door for just under $1100.

[MrIrons]

Okay, so I pulled my intake apart this afternoon... Shaft play isn't overly bad, but it's definitely present. Gonna fabricate up a catch can, install it, clean the intake out and check the intake again in a few weeks and see if the oil is still present. My plan for upgrade (now I've researched it, I kinda wanna do it anyway) is to get Hypergear to highflow the turbo and install a NIStune daughter board to the ECU and tune it for 10psi boost. Should cost around $1700.

[GTSBoy]

Mental note....you can't put a Nistune board in your R33 ECU. You have to get a Z32 or R32 ECU and use that. Z32 gives you VTC with no other hassles. R32 means you need to add a window switch to control the cams. Other option, as posted above, is Toshi funkying up your R33 ECU. But I'd tak him up on his Z32 Nistune option if I were you.

[MrIrons]

Right. Well that's another curveball. Price goes up to around $2150 for highflow and Nistuned z32 ECU. Sigh.

[t_revz]

Chances are once you clean intake and fit catch can it will be fine...

[MrIrons]

Mental note....you can't put a Nistune board in your R33 ECU. You have to get a Z32 or R32 ECU and use that. Z32 gives you VTC with no other hassles. R32 means you need to add a window switch to control the cams. Other option, as posted above, is Toshi funkying up your R33 ECU. But I'd tak him up on his Z32 Nistune option if I were you.

Does the Z32 ECU plug into the R33 harness or do you need to re-wire it?

[75coupe]

Just get a std turbo rebuilt to std specs otherwise as your finding out the price goess up fast and the mod bug will bite you... Once you start you cant stop...

And if you cant stop with the mods youll find the nistune and hiflow wont be enough and your simple daily will turn into something else, im sure many people on here have found this to happen...

Keep it simple and things will stay simple and relatively cheap

Start to modify stuff and it wont stop and does get expensive and time consuming

[MrIrons]

Yeah I'm starting to see that. I don't wanna start throwing money at it if it's going to be an ongoing thing... Trying to save for bigger things (i.e house). Almost everywhere I've spoken to says they will highflow it as well as rebuild (hypergear included) so what if I get it installed, install a manual boost controller and just retard the boost to 7psi if it tries boost higher after the highflow.

[wolverine]

Drive it till it lets go. I reckon there is little chance that the oil in the intake is related to the health of the turbo.

If it ever lets go at stock boost (which is unlikely), install second hand turbo.

Save money...win.

[ae86 boy]

to all those recommending putting a hi flo on - he wants to run stock boost so putting a hi flow on will only increase lag with no benifits of extra power. and +1 for it being normal for a bit of oil to be in the intake...

[Moodles2]

A stock turbo has the benefits of.... failure of the ceramic wheel and ceramic dust taking out an engine.

[t_revz]

My hi-flow done by gcg had next to no response difference to stock.

Depends who does it and to what spec