Modified by Ajax at 8:16 AM 4/19/2009

Modified by Ajax at 8:17 AM 4/19/2009

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I am actually making some progress on my car and before too long I will need to make a choice on the intake. I'll update my thread with more pics soon.

The manifold is in, and the car runs, but as Dave mentioned, there are quite a few little things that miffed me about the design.

It seemed to me like the Q45 throttle cable bracket was an afterthought, it interferes with the fuse/relay box cover, and it is very flimsy. Snapping the throttle causes it to flex a great deal. A more permanent solution will need to be fabricated.

The coolant temp sensor. I almost have to wonder if they had a KA on hand while building the runners. A pretty good amount of metal needs to be removed from the back of the front cover just to clear the coolant temp sensor. There is no rhyme or reason to its location either, they could have easily moved it a 1/4" further out, and it would have fit perfectly.

The fuel rail mounting. I am greatly displeased with the lack of thought that went into the fuel rail mounting. It took me 5 trys to get all the injectors to seal without vacuum leaks, and I'm still not 100% satisfied. It almost seems to me like they threw it together at the last minute. I'm not impressed.

Any one of these issues would be no biggie, but put them together with the grip of other things I had to Finn rig, and you end up with a not so happy Ian. I think Xcessive could be on to something, but they need to sit down and do a little R&D. I guess I will reserve further judgements till I see the dyno results.

Enough of my whining... Pictures.

I only got pictures of the manifold installed.

Beauty and my beast.

Quote, originally posted by Ajax »

Hope this helps, not very good quality- only have a camera phone

thats wat i was looking for...NOTE..the heater core hose outlet pipe or "hole" in this case ,Is plugable to bypass the heatercore cleanly...i allready bypassed mine using expantion type freeze plugs and a cut off wheel...thanks for the pic man..intake looks great..might be more benificial for a KA_T set up thou..as for the fitment issues..thanks again for clarifying what others have complained about..i think ill pass on the intake myself.

Somebody has got to be the guinea pig right?

Have you gotten the intake tubing all put together yet? I want to hear that baby roar.

Yes the Z MAF is a little overkill as far as flow reading is concerned, the real benefit for you is the internal diameter. If the N62 has the same internal diameter as your intake piping, then you could easily drop down to that. Hell, I have a S14 KA MAFS that has a decent diameter, if they are the same internally, you can have it. I just dont remember the specs.

Here's where we ran into clearance problems with coolant sensors.

And the grinding- make sure that aluminum doesn't migrate...

Install is straightforward except for the minor clearance issues.

Yup, the q45 intake is big.

Here it is installed and running. As you can see, I need to fab up a new intake pipe. I'd like to fabricate an intake that is fed through the piggy nostrils- ram-air effect anyone?

Obviously, with the q45 TB and plenum, there are some hood clearance issues.

Here's the hood to attempt it- Origin Type II. I also just ordered Xcessive motor mount tabs which should lower it just a bit more to help out.

As a bonus, changing the filter will be cake. I'll even be able to replace the knock sensor without much trouble.

So my engine bay used to be shiny red. Then the bodyshop decided flatblack would look good- "I got a way to spray it that doesn't take much time," "okay." End result- would have been better just steam cleaning it- the paint was already decent. If it ever gets painted again, the bay will be resprayed red, and there will be a major wiretuck job.

How's it run?

Not yet, but I did get to see the car drive for the first time in almost a year. I even got pictures to prove it.

AMS Tuning date is now June 29th. And now that the coolant is flowing and the car is aligned, it should just be a matter of some underhood trimming to be ready for the trip to Chicago.

I knew i shouldnt have left you two in charge of finishing up the coolant lines, you cant trust an SR boy to do anything right the first time....

pretty spiffy.... now we just need to make you a new intake pipe ASAP. Something that compliments the runner lengths, and a cold air box to put it in.

Oh yeah, i forgot to ask, did you put in those s***ty plastic velocity stacks? I dont know if i would have. First reason, those stacks werent made out of the same material as they do on motorcycles, etc, it seemed like some regular a** HDPE. Reason two, like i side before, they radiused the lip on the inlets already. so when you put the stack over that (to increase the runner length really) the seal made between the two pieces is terrible. I cant imagine how much turbulence is developed in that area.

Modified by DjPantsSpecR at 7:41 AM 6/12/2009

You know i have a toyota supra radiator sitting around, i'll go take a look at it.

EDIT: supra rad is about 3-4 inches too wide

Modified by DjPantsSpecR at 9:52 AM 6/12/2009

Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.

Who you calling boy?

Hahahaha, those coolant fittings are in such piss poor locations, there is absolutely no good way to route the hose. I was using what we had that night. It didnt kink until he drove it.

I ended up using 2 90 degree fittings, and a piece of hose with a 90 in it, just to make it not kink.

Ideally, the upper fitting should come out at 90 degrees, pointed towards the rear, as apposed to going straight down, where it interferes with everything. If there was a 90 fitting there, then all you would need, would be a U shaped hose.