Making a run down the 1320.

Rudy brought in his Z34 for some tweaking on our Dyno.  Mods include SSR wheels, K&N Typhoon Intake System, HKS Hi-Power Catback, Kinetix HFCs, and Stillen Engine Oil Cooler.

His K&N intake didn’t pose any lean running condition associated with some intakes.

A nice average of 9 to 10 whp across the board after the tune.

Late last year Aimen came in with his G35 for some NA tuning action.  Needless to say with his NA mods untuned the car was running like complete crap.  Happy camper after the tune…..until the whooosh called.  Fast forward to last week Aimen came in with a custom SPA Turbo Kit.  From what I know about it, the turbo is made by SPA from Brazil.  Very interesting to see something non Garrett or Mitsu.  We’ll see how long it hangs on.  Besides the turbo kit he had the Blox 5\8″ spacer, ported & polished plenums, DC Headers which make their way to the SPA turbo, 3″ single Apex’i Catback, UR UD Pulley, JWT Clutch\Flywheel, and grounding kit.  I was pretty surprised how well it worked.  I think Aimen was too!

Mimicking the Turbonetics kit.

Whoooooosh!!!

The beauty that is boost, this was Aimen’s G before boost (blue) and Aimen’s G after the gift of boost (red).  Almost  100 whp and over 110 torque to the tires.  All this on 6 PSI.  Time for a boost controller!

This graph is showing the difference between Aimen’s Turbo G35 vs. a G35 boosted by a Vortech SC.  The power that is TURBO.

Chris Berry has one beautiful G.  He’s brought it in several times for dynoing and AT valve body upgrade.  It has a plethora of mods including a Vortech SC and Cosworth Intake Manifold.

Clean enough to eat off but why make it dirty doing so?

Jesse brought us his clean G for some fine tuning.  No surprise that this car was running uncomfortably lean.  After some tweaking to not only AFR we came up with some nice gains.

Good solid gains of over 11 whp and 10 torque.

This JDM rockin’ Z33 is a pantie dropper for sure.  Sporting Seibon C.F. fenders, Volk TE37s Seibon Edition Wheels, and other assorted C.F. ware.

Under the hood it has a gnarly whine that suggests it isn’t all show.  A Vortech snail resides under there willing to boost it with the rest of the mean machines in our shop.  Along with Stillen Headers, factory CATs, and HKS Catback.  Vithorauk (the owner) called on us to tune his Z machine for optimum radness.

Luckily for him he laid off the gas pedal until it was tuned.  It came to us with the UniChip piggy back.  It was a no brainer to yank that thing outta there and get the party bumpin’ with UpRev hawtness.    After swapping out the factory plugs with colder ones and inspecting a few other things it was time to make some boost.  The baseline run with the UniChip had to be prematurely aborted due to unwanted mean and way too lean AFR.  A damn good thing Vithorauk never laid into it.  After some much needed massaging this baby was ripping it hard.  One thing about superchargers is that they do sound f-in mean.  Especially in our dyno room.

The before & after transformation…………….

Self explanatory……the blue run is the baseline on how it came in and red is where it came out rockin’ it hard.  Smooth power delivery and some sweet AFR to go with it (red run).  We made 369 whp & 308 torque with 7 psi of boost.  Props to Anthony @ Antelope Valley Nissan for a job well done in the installation department ( I didn’t have to redo much).

Juan from Bardabe brought over his 2007 350Z MT HR for some basic pulls and left with more power and a safer car.  Looking at his baseline dyno (in blue) it was way to lean to do a full pull.  His Z had his custom cold air intake, test pipes, and catback.

I don’t remember what catback he’s running (Greddy?).

We ended up with 293 whp and 261 wtq.