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A lot of work on compiled into a few pictures. Great job dude...your FX sounds even more like a whining cat now. What numbers did you put down?Leave a comment:
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Fluipdampr crank pulley
Walbro GSS342 fuel pump upgrade
Factory fuel pump assembly
Disassemble the plastic components to release the factory pump
The pump is coming out
Walbro on the left
Remove the sock fliter from the factory pump
Modify the Walbro
Install sock fliter onto the Walbro
Enlarge the swirl jet
Enlarge the regulator outlet
All done. Ready to go back into tank
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Coolers installation (oil, trans, an SC inter-cooler)
SC inter-cooler
Oil cooler
Trans fluid cooler
All three coolers mounted
Inter-cooler coolant pump
Oil cooler sandwich adapter
Stillen Stage 4 Installation
Stock plenum
Re-routed the crankcase breather hoses and installed the 4 rib pulley
Stillen lower plenum mounted on the lower manifold
Underside of the Stillen top plenum with the cooler
Tada
Oil catch can
Fabricated a bracket to mount the can
Goodyear EZ-Coil installed onto the two inter-cooler port to keep the coolant hose nicely bend
I'm ready for the dyno!!!!
On the dyno
On the first dyno run, we found some serious leaks around the inter-cooler coolant ports due to aged seals and rear portion of the supercharger. The tuner made remarks on Stillen had an upgraded the the pulleys nose cone 4-rib pulley to a 6-rib pulley to help the belt slips. Since the leaks will results in taking the supercharger off the car, the opportunity for the 6-rib upgrade kit was ordered.
Here is the Stillen 407350-02-6 6-Rib Upgrade kit
Old 4-rib pulley
Cooler removed from the Stillen top plate
The underside of the Eaton MP62 supercharger
The new Stillen 407350-02-6 top plate. I stack the new top plate over the old plate to show hole the change to the plate. The new plate moved about 1/8 inch toward the rear as you can see the picture
The supercharger mounted onto the new plate
Top view of the new 6-rib pulley installed. The new bushing was installed onto the pulley shaft and it hidden from view. It is under the timing belt cover.
Old and new belt tensioner bushing
The belt tensioner with new bushing
Remove the 4-rib nose cone pulley
New 6-rib pulley
New 6-rib upgrade completed
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I'm back.
Summer 2014.
The car has been dropped off at my buddies home garage in Chicago.
Install GTSPEC braces
Mid chassis
Front lower engine
Installing rivet nut onto frame
Braces installed
Replace Radiator and coolant flush
Disconnected the trans cooler lines at the bottom of the old radiator
Out with old
Here is new...Denso radiator
Existing fan onto back of new radiator
Flush supplies (2 gallons of 100% coolant and 5 gallons of distilled water... I think!)
Forgot to take picture of old coolant when draining the old radiator.
Open this plug (corner of passenger side fender and firewall) as you slowly refill with fresh 50/50 mix coolant.
Refill until fresh coolant until you see coolant in the plug opening. Reinstall this plug after each refill. Continue to refill up to the neck of the radiator cap opening.
Don't forget to empty, clean the coolant reservoir and refill with proper amount of fresh 50/50 mix.
Drain from the first refill of fresh 50/50 mix.
Drain of second refill of fresh 50/50 mix.
Drain the third refill of fresh 50/50 mix
Retrofit paddle shifter
Remove airbag
Clock spring
Naked steering column
Driver side paddle wiring
Passenger side paddle wiring
Finished paddle shifter, clock spring assembly
Passenger side steering column cover cutout
Driver side steering column cutout
The cover is on
The relays
Ready to be install onto car
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Paddle shifter back onto steering column
Relocate the steering column tilt switch
Not sure what this stuff are. :smile (2): Looks like a custom custom dash center console and after market headunit
The relay is tucked away and wired up
Transgo shift kit installation
Getting ready the drain the trans fluid and remove the valve body from car
The never ending "waterfall of toxic strawberry death syrup"
Trans fluid pan
Magnet in the pan
Valve body
Ready for the real fun
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Replace valve covers
Tape up the lower plenum to prevent foreign objects to fall into the chambers
Driver side valve cover removed
Camshaft sensor
New valve cover
Passenger side valve cover removed
Leaky old valve cover
Colder spark plugs for Stillen SC
Install bigger injector upgrade for Stillen SC
Fuel rail and injectors
New injector o-rings
Old and new injectors
Ready to reinstalled
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I normally **** these as well, but damn yours looks amazing, and I like the mudflaps myself! Keep up the good work!Leave a comment:
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What really caught my eye at first was how meticulous the dinoc was laid on the center column. The attention to detail here is infinite. Very sharp fx.Leave a comment:
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I'm back. It was huge PITA project for me.
I have been thinking to change the lip and barrel color, since I don't have any chrome on my car. So I was debating between gold/black and brushed/black scheme, but decided to go with brushed aluminum and black.
First I cleaned and prepped the barrels
Masked everything off
Primed
Painted with Rustoleum Automotive gloss black paint
Wrapping the lip
All done. I didn't like how it came out. It just was a mix of gray colors
Decided to wrap the face in black brushed aluminum
Didn't like the look at all
Way off
Painted the faces with Rustoleum gloss black and satin Dupli-Color clear coat
Looked great at first...
...but I messed up the drying time between coats and and it came out like this
The only way to go was to strip everything off. Here we go(5 days of labor)
getting close
and done
I repainted everything correctly this time, applied the custom Infiniti decals, but didn't take any pictures(I think there are plenty here already
. Also got a new set of Muteki Burning Blue lug nuts with locks.
...also installed new Bosch evolution wipers
Polished the windshield with Zaino glass polish
...applied the Aquapel on my windshield
Unprocessed cell phone pictures
And a mini photoshoot after
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I honestly think that FX35 is one of the ugliest things ever... having said that you have completely transformed it mate!
It actually looks ... great (I can't believe I like it)!
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Winter updates!
Installed the SPRTFX rear license plate LED's. Very happy with outcome.It was hard to capture the light output, but these LED/s are very bright.
Before
Left SPRTFX LED's, right regular LED's
Left and right SPRTFX LED's
Also installed the 7W Q5 Cree Backup LED's. Very bright, highly recommend, and they only around $5 shipped for a pair.
Was bored one day and wrapped the cup-holder in 3M brushed aluminum. Came out nice IMO.
Prepared the car for winter
Put the mudflaps back
Fixed my rusty spring buckets
Before:
Sanded
all the rust that came off from my spring buckets
pressure washed
applied the POR-15 rust preventive paint
this rusty piece of metal fell off from the bumper support
fixed it and painted over with POR-15 also
painted the rolled rear fenders with POR-15 also
Sprayed the ACF-50 anti-corrosion lubricant on my coilovers
...and installed the new winter wheels, got a REALLY good deal on them. These are Falken(FK Wheels) RT-7M wheels, 8.5 wide with +35 offset. I kept the 19mm adapters on. Tires are Bridgestone Blizzak 265/50/20. Thanks to guys from my local Discount Tire store.
Washed the summer setup. Going to change them a little bit for the next season.
new winter lug nuts
Quick photo-shoot just outside of town.
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