A little help for a stranger to KA-T's

[Koby]

I've been skimming and browsing through the many different nissan forums out there, this place stands out for having some knowlegable guys who accually can help me

Alright, I'm not a nissan guy. I'm a DSM owner :-/ But I'm helping out a friend do his ka24-t install. He is new to turbocharging, but I've been around it for a few years myself.

He has most of the expensive stuff already:

50trim t3/t4ex. manifoldintercoolerheavy duty clutch (not sure what brand)hks ssq bovtial external WG

But now I need to come in and finish things up. He is a on a tight-ish budget, so the less the better.

So far I've gathered that I'm going to need the following to get up and running in the 7-8psi range:

370cc injectorsSAFCoil lines (feed/return - i've read the very handy guide you guys have here for it )

Besides that, I'm not positive if a fuel pump upgrade is going to be needed with low boost (7-8psi)... I know that us dsm guys do fuel pump re-wires to get a bit of extra flow from our stock units cheaply.

Besides these couple things, I think this should be pretty easy and fun. I hate to get complicated with a guy who is new to nissans. Stand alone fuel management is not needed. He just wants to get it up and running.

Thanks

[Mustangs_Suck]

I've been skimming and browsing through the many different nissan forums out there, this place stands out for having some knowlegable guys who accually can help me

Alright, I'm not a nissan guy. I'm a DSM owner :-/ But I'm helping out a friend do his ka24-t install. He is new to turbocharging, but I've been around it for a few years myself.

He has most of the expensive stuff already:

50trim t3/t4ex. manifoldintercoolerheavy duty clutch (not sure what brand)hks ssq bovtial external WG

But now I need to come in and finish things up. He is a on a tight-ish budget, so the less the better.

So far I've gathered that I'm going to need the following to get up and running in the 7-8psi range:

370cc injectorsSAFCoil lines (feed/return - i've read the very handy guide you guys have here for it )

Besides that, I'm not positive if a fuel pump upgrade is going to be needed with low boost (7-8psi)... I know that us dsm guys do fuel pump re-wires to get a bit of extra flow from our stock units cheaply.

Besides these couple things, I think this should be pretty easy and fun. I hate to get complicated with a guy who is new to nissans. Stand alone fuel management is not needed. He just wants to get it up and running.

Thanks

Hey Koby - Xindra from OT : good luck finding those things...there tons of **** for sale in the classified section of this website. if not - try some of the websites located on the site as advertisments...that's about all I can say.. some others might have some better recommendations though.

Good luck with everything

[Structure240sx]

i jsut recently started a thread about hardwiring the fuel pump like you were talking about, but i still invest in a walbro for sure

[NissanIntl]

Although im new to the KA-T world, even with turbo hondas,toyotas,etc.... ive heard time and time again, that fuel is something that shouldnt be used in the same sentence as "cheap". Ive heard of people rewiring fuel pumps to get more power also. But isnt working a fuel pump like that a good way to decrease the life of it? I would invest in a new fuel pump too, as id rather not risk blowing a stock pump, which could lead to other "blown" parts.

hope that helps. Besides, a $100 for a fuel pump isnt too bad.

[Koby]

Rewiring a pump just up's the voltage it gets. Say in a 10 year old car, it is probably running about 11-11.5v instead of the factory specs of 12v.

Running some really low-resistance wire to the stock pump and cleaning things up can usually bump it up to 13v or so, letting the pump flow more fuel. It shouldn't be overworking it at all either, fuel pumps will die from having no coolant (aka gas in the tank)

I'm only saying we want to be cheap, by connotating that we don't need to be overkill with the setup right now (-6 fuel lines, FPR's, standalone, ect...)

[Koby]

Hey Koby - Xindra from OT : good luck finding those things...there tons of **** for sale in the classified section of this website. if not - try some of the websites located on the site as advertisments...that's about all I can say.. some others might have some better recommendations though.

Good luck with everything

Good to see a fellow OT'er

Yeah, hopefully we can pick up some used 370's and maybe a 300zx fuel pump combo for a good deal.

[crzycav86]

I have a z31 fuel pump on my 240. z31 owners use it to make up to 300hp. I haven't finished my kat, but I have confidence in it. It's a direct swap and a cheaper alternative to the z32 fuel pump.