Okay so this has now been a 1.5 year build and counting thus far and I want to get everyone up to speed on this project. I need to explain beforehand, why I’m doing the build this way. The build was originally going to be done on my true right hand drive, not a conversion, S14.5 but do to a shop screwing me over (selling the parts off the car and sending the rest of the shell to a recycling yard even though they were supposed to be just doing the cage hah) I no longer had that car to build. The reason I had no idea that this was happening, was because back on December 7th 2010, my house burned down which had me a bit distracted from my car. Also, the fire destroyed 90% of the remaining parts that I was going to be placing on the S14.

Here is a quick story about the fire.

At 12am on December 7th 2010, the fire alarm went off. The garage had caught fire do to a wrongly installed heating system the week before. It was a massive fire, the fire department said it is the worst fire they had ever seen. 23 fire departments had to come out, over 300 fire fighters, and 50+ fire trucks and water tankers. Also, the fire lasted for nearly 8 hours. About 2 hours in the tankers and trucks ran out of water, so they pumped water from every place available...they pumped the water out of the pool, out of the lake, and they were even pumping water out of a creek down the street. also, the 25mph winds that night didnt help at all, it was blowing it towards the rest of the house and was only stirring up the fire more. Luckily, no one was hurt and the fire fighters were able to save the oldest part of the historic house which dates back to 1740, but unfortunately two thirds of the house were considered a complete loss.

Here is a picture of the house before the fire.



During the fire.







The morning after the fire.





Though the outside doesn't look to bad in the middle section, it was actually gutted by the fire along with the third floor on the big porch section.



At that point, I was basically building a car from scratch (except I already had money sent out for the new engine). I went through a long search of looking for a car…but I wanted to build on a chassis that I haven’t built yet. So, I looked for r32, S15, m3 e30, but I ended up finding a well-priced and 100% rust free 350z that I was able to pick up.


As for this car build, it is doing to be my modified class time attack car…and maybe see the street on an absolutely perfect day. NO CHEAP PARTS and NO CUT CORNERS will be done on this build. DON'T bother saying any negative comments about the engine/chassis combination. An SR is lighter than a VQ and is able to sit further back/lower in the engine bay giving it a better center of gravity along with a better 50/50 weight distribution. also, this car will not have any power issues (i will show you with some of the future updates) should have plenty of power for the car. one of the big things im trying to do with this build, is to be a bit different then everyone else. im trying to pick parts and do things to the car that most people dont do...that will possibly explain why I'm doing what im doing LETS GET STARTED!

This is how the car looked the day I got it!




It was also a turbo 350z at the time when i bought it but i sold all of that right when i bought it.


well, shes jacked up and ready to start getting ripped apart.


time for the engine setup to come out and go bye bye! (VINs got cut off since we are ripping the tubbing out of the engine bay, will weld VINs back onto the firewall before paint)



The Mazworx SR22VE-T is in!

Engine Specs:

Head!
Mazworx Fully Built p11 sr20ve head
CNC ported combustion chambers
Competion race 5 angle valve job
Supertech everything:
Supertech 116lb dual valve springs
Supertech Titanium retainers
Supertech valve guides
Supertech Inner valve spring seats
Supertech +1mm oversized valves.
Gasket matched and opened up exhaust ports to match intake ports
P12 cams
Greddy Adjustable Cam Gears
P12 valve cover
P12 cam angle sencor
New OEM guides
Tomei Solid Pivots
Mazworx 1/2" headstuds

Block!
CP Piston 90mm 9.0:1
CROWER I-Beam Rods
Power Enterprise 90mm head gasket with fire ring
Calico Coated ACL Bearings for Main, Rods, and Thrust Washers
ARP Main Studs
New OEM Nissan Oil Pump
Darton Ductile Iron Sleeves
New OEM Nissan SR20 Crankshaft
Nismo Pilot Roller Bearing
Oil Groove Machining
19mm Rod Bearing Machining
Check, Polish, Balance Crank
All new OEM Nissan freeze/block plugs.
ATI Damper Pulley
Greddy Oil Pan (depending on the budget, I may end up going to a dry sump system this year instead of next year)
Extended oil pickup






Mazworx intake manifold


I'll add more updates in a bit

 

HERE IS THE KEEPING IT COOL UPDATE!


the new C&R radiator which is a double pass 28x18.5x2.5



I also had the Mazworx water pump block off plate, since I will be running an external electronic power steering pump.



so, like i said in the first post, im going for being a bit different with this build...trying to do things a lot of people don't do. so i decided to go with a liquid to air intercooler setup to be a bit different but to also try it out since i have never personaly tried this type of cooling before. This setup is rated for 1200hp, so im sure it will work fine.

heat exchanger (radiator for the intercooler) 26 X 7 X 3.5
Liquid to Air Intercooler 15 X 6.5 X 6
Ice Box (for track days)
Bosch Cobra Pump
dual fans for the heat exchanger


Electronic water pump setup





Setrab series 6-25 row oil cooler for the engine oil and a Setrab series 6-7 row oil cooler for the power steering fluid.


Nismo differential cover

 

ELECTRONICS UPDATE!

well, it took awhile to get alot of this stuff in, but its here!

RacePak IQ3, 32 Channel Data Logger


RacePak Vnet Interface Modules for AEM Standalone


From Racepak, I had to get a 4-channel Module so I could hook up the fuel sender and a few other sensors and have them show up on the Racepak IQ3 data logger. Also had to get another V-net harness to go from the module to the IQ3



Got a fuel lever sender from ATL so I could actually know how much fuel I have lol


ARC 8000R Switch Pannel


HKS EVC VI Boost Controler


Chase Bays Mil Spec Connectors


AEM Series 2 EMS


Spa Designs Boost/EGT Gauge


Spa Designs Water/Water Temp Gauge


Spa Designs Intercooler In/Out Temp Gauge


AEM Water/Methanol Injection Kit


AEM 5 Gallon Tank


HKS Turbo Timer


New starter for the SR


New 110amp Nissan Quest alternator for the SR.


AEM coils

 

amazing project...keep us updated!

 

DRIVETRAIN UPDATE!

so the Mazworx Z33 to SR transmission setup came in today! looks great!




should definitly do the job till it gets ppg gears put in next year.

Got an Exedy triple plate clutch.





tilton hydrolic release bearing



Tomei 2-way differential with a 1.5-way conversion kit
the back story to this is that the U.S. branch of Tomei had no idea that they even sold a 1.5-way conversion kit of it so they had to call the Japan branch to ask if they even sold a kit to make it a 1.5-way...turns out they do

 

SUSPENSION UPDATE!

I bought almost everything from SPL

front upper arms V3
front lower arm bushings
front compression rod bushings
front outer tie rod ends
front stabilizer end links
rear toe arms
rear camber links
rear traction links
rear knuckle bushing kit
rear stabilizer end links
solid differential bushing set
tein inner tie rods



Stance XR coilovers with Swift springs


car came with hochkis stabilizer bars already. I have a set of Powered By Max wide angle kit coming over from japan and should be here in a few weeks.

 

That looks like a top build. The 350 has a pretty nice chassis to work with.