{"id":492,"date":"2010-08-21T21:44:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T04:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2013-09-15T15:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:04:35","slug":"jim-cliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Jim &#038; Cliff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TT.Netters may recognize the red car as being Jim Nichols Z32.\u00a0 That would be Dave N.&#8217;s dad.\u00a0 Jim, Dave, Cliff, and Ben all came down to get Jim and Cliff&#8217;s Z32s tuned.\u00a0 Jim has a very clean Z with standard bolt ons and still has factory CAT pipes.\u00a0 His basic engine mods are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-494\" title=\"JIm Nichols Z32\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimn.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimn.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimn-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stock Turbos<\/li>\n<li>SZ Downpipes<\/li>\n<li>OE CAT Pipes<\/li>\n<li>740cc Injectors<\/li>\n<li>JWT Single POP<\/li>\n<li>SZ Catback<\/li>\n<li>Boost Jets<\/li>\n<li>Stillen SZ Modded Intercoolers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nothing crazy but makes for a nice solid Z car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimnicholsgraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-495\" title=\"Jim Nichols Graph\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimnicholsgraph.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimnicholsgraph.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/jimnicholsgraph-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cliff on the other hand has a 96 2by2 that he himself converted to a TT.\u00a0 Cliff has our full SZ 2.5&#8243; exhaust setup, Z1 Stage 1 turbos, Nismo 615cc injectors, larger intercoolers, etc..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-496\" title=\"Cliff's Z32\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliff.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliff.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliff-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cliff&#8217;s car came in with a terribly lean AFR, this was corrected however along the way we suspected his VTCs were not working.\u00a0 His low end power was lacking.\u00a0 After some tests we concluded the valves behind the cams were MIA.\u00a0 Cliff went back home, tore it down and fixed the problem to come back and get it finalized.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a graph showing the difference with VTC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliffgraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-497\" title=\"Cliff's Graph\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliffgraph.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliffgraph.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/cliffgraph-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Blue was without VTC and red is with VTC.\u00a0 Big difference!\u00a0 Thank Nissan for implementing VTC for the VG30DEs.\u00a0 One of the many advantages over the RB26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TT.Netters may recognize the red car as being Jim Nichols Z32.\u00a0 That would be Dave N.&#8217;s dad.\u00a0 Jim, Dave, Cliff, and Ben all came down to get Jim and Cliff&#8217;s Z32s tuned.\u00a0 Jim has a very clean Z with standard bolt ons and still has factory CAT pipes.\u00a0 His basic engine mods are: Stock Turbos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-300zx-z32","category-dyno","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2382,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/2382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}