Pipe dream (turbo that is)

mantree

Wheeling
Location
Fort Collins
Link to turbo kit
Someday I hope to make this a reality on my x. But it will have to wait untell I have the engine in rip top shape and have the cash and time. It would make going over wolfs creak pass much easier if I could get boost starting about 1k and top out around 3k. I could go with a super charger off a 1.5 gen but I realy feal that the turbo would suit my needs better. I was looking at manifolds for the turbo model of the z searies that used the vg line of v6 engine.

Wolfs creak is almost 11k feet so NA engines struggle at the top and by the end of the desent you start to see brake fading from the heat, last trip we had to stop at he gas station at the end to let the brakes cool before contenuing on to durango for rafting.

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mantree

Wheeling
Location
Fort Collins
I think I have figured out what I need to do mechanical side of this (exhaust manifold, turbo, intake, fuel delivery and a upgraded map sensor) but now I am trying to figure out the ecu side of it. Dose anybody know what it takes to flash the ecu for the vg33e in our trucks? I don't plan on going to extreme with boost just a bit to help make up for altitude and give me a bit more passing power for highway driving.

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ElPincheGuero4

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Cohoes
Well people supercharge the 4.0 so it can't be too much different that what is necessary for that. Maybe you can use that as a starting point as I have no idea lol
 

Prime

Shut up Baby, I know it!
Admin
Location
Denver Adjacent
No one does anything for the ecu on the 3.3. What you'd have to do is swap to a z31 vg30 computer and then the world opens up because that engine actually had aftermarket support. Even this turbo kit is built for the vg30. What I'd actually do is run vg30 cams and heads as they had a design that was built to handle a turbo to begin with. The vg33 is the same block just with a bit more stroke.

All that said, why a turbo? I only ask because if you wheel, a turbo isn't going to do you any good unless you're running at Baja speeds. And actually a roots style supercharger that the X was available with makes a lot more sense seeing for extra grunt down low.
 

mantree

Wheeling
Location
Fort Collins
300zx guys run vg33es that they turbo charge but they have the stock Vg30et ecu they might have used the Vg30 heads but I'm not sure as they didn't go in to much detail. I am got the idea from a guy that built a 22ret for his t100 to give him some better power for on road. He used a tdi turbo to build low end power for climbs up passes. The x has plenty of power for me offroad but it dose need a bit of help geting up mountains. I like the idea of using my exhaust to build boost when needed wihout the parasitic draw of the supercharger. My over all gole is to eventually use a JDM turbo diesel engine but that is a bit out of what I can aford right now

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harryron

The Grumpiest of Mid-Westerners
Location
ohio
Just use a few leaf blowers. Lol

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Rhaas

Need Bigger Tires
It does work they tested it on road kill. They ran 4 leaf blowers.

sent from the middle of a corn field.

What if you get a trailer and put 20 of those industrial leaf blowers on it and have them all connected to the intake via aluminum tubing for super cold air intake at a high velocity.
 

harryron

The Grumpiest of Mid-Westerners
Location
ohio
What if you get a trailer and put 20 of those industrial leaf blowers on it and have them all connected to the intake via aluminum tubing for super cold air intake at a high velocity.
You mean something like this? Yes the used a built small block chevy in one episode.
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sent from the middle of a corn field.
 
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