Pics of dressed up Z32 NA engine bays

[Foosblood24]

I'm not asking anyone to go out of their way to take some pics. But if you have any readily available, feel free to post them on here. I'm trying to get some visuals for when I go to do a dress up job in my 93 NA.

Thanks in advance!


Oh, and if anyone wants to share product links to some dress up parts like braded hose kits, chrome bolt kits, that kinda stuff, muchos apreciante'

[300ZXttZMAN]

My personal favorite NA engine bay I have ever seen:

[Foosblood24]

Are we allowed to say Holy s*** on here? And where did they put all the hoses and stuff???


Seriously....there's like two miles of stuff missing or re-routed!

[Foosblood24]

OH! And thank you 300ZXttZMAN! That pic is epic-clean!

[Foosblood24]

For fun I made up a lil "spot the differences" pic with mine side by side

[ThisIsSparTTa]

Yea, I mean its basically delete: EGR, AIV, PRVR, Cruise Control, AC(?), upper fan shroud, extra clutch bleed point, fuel line across plenum. Recocate: battery, fuel filter, fuse box. I'm not sure where the balance tube went...didn't think you could delete that. Then they tucked a bunch of other wires and parts of the harness, etc. Shaved and painted the engine bay + powdered a bunch of other engine parts.

[Foosblood24]

It also looks like some things were shaved off the plenum as well.

And how does one delete the fuel line across the plenum?

[zswap0429]

Dear God! How did he delete the balance tube?!

[Foosblood24]

Dear God! How did he delete the balance tube?!

THIS^^^

I believe I'll be going a bit simpler...

[Foosblood24]

OK ya'know what? I wanna know how to delete the balance tube!

[Z-owned]

It's not deleted it's relocated underneath. He has spent many an hour planning his bay out with many custom one off things done to make it possible.

[Foosblood24]

It's not deleted it's relocated underneath. He has spent many an hour planning his bay out with many custom one off things done to make it possible.

I was thinking something along these lines. It seems pretty impossible to just delete it altogether. But it would mean fabricating new ports in the plenum and stuff

("and stuff" is my way of saying I ain't got the slightest clue)

[Z-owned]

Last I heard, haven't seen him post anything in awhile is that he has over a 100 hours into the bay which i can fully believe as I have spent over 20 hours getting mine to look like it does and it's not even a quarter of what he has done.

Mine.

[zswap0429]

Where did you get those throttle body covers?!

[JesseDM]

Did he reshape the number six intake runner as well?

[DCaff300ZX]

Where did you get those throttle body covers?!

My favorite new find by Chris...and I saw his bay last weekend and it's even better in person.
The link...a little costy but worth it IMO:
http://www.zthirtytwo.com/collections/z32-engine

[zswap0429]

Leave it to zthirtytwo to have some cool s***

[Z-owned]

Yup I need their cf cowl lol

[zswap0429]

A guy named Erik Nielsen on facebook posted this.

[Foosblood24]

Not quite sure how I feel about the whole battery relocation. While I appreciate the idea and the workmanship involved, it does leave a big crater in the bay on the far left that just looks weird IMO. I think for mine, I'll go with a "pretty" battery like the Optima series and then have some decorative black and red 2 gauge cables and gold/chrome plated terminals with a three-way for the amp cable.

[DCaff300ZX]

Wow, I actually like that copper/bronze color even though it doesn't match anything...just works with the silver and gunmetal colors somehow.

Here's my bay, not nearly so tucked and deleted as the previous two but I have moved the PTU and cleaned a few things up, with more to come later. Also since these pics I have all new red silicone PCV system hoses and a few other small additions.

[zswap0429]

I agree that the battery relocation does leave quite a hole in your life. So has anyone moved their fuse box there? Its a ton of re-wiring, but I think it would look good over in that gap.

[DCaff300ZX]

I was going to move the fuse box, it actually comes apart fairly decently and seemed like it could end up down in the front DS corner fairly easily, if a bit time consuming with careful labeling and such to get everything assembled again. I think Ziggy had some insight here, I seem to remember someone clued me into this relocate but it awhile (and a disaster) ago...Ziggy?

[Foosblood24]

I agree that the battery relocation does leave quite a hole in your life. So has anyone moved their fuse box there? Its a ton of re-wiring, but I think it would look good over in that gap.

I also wonder if there's enough room in that space for a NOS bottle? I bet a chrome or CF bottle right there would look sick! (and be VERY functional too)

[zswap0429]

Also good idea. But im not trying to rice out over here. If I had any need for it I would just put the nos bottle in the back so I could turn it on myself

[Z-owned]

I have contemplated moving the battery to the trunk and then relocating the power steering res to the battery area as opposed to under the nose panel.

[Foosblood24]

What all emissions problems come from the EGR delete?

[300ZXttZMAN]

Did he reshape the number six intake runner as well?

Yes he used a runner from another intake haha.

[Foosblood24]

Also good idea. But im not trying to rice out over here. If I had any need for it I would just put the nos bottle in the back so I could turn it on myself

Question: Isn't "rice" supposed to be the illusion of a high performance mod that actually does nothing but "look" like the real thing? Like a cool looking muffler end but not an actual header/catback system.

Wouldn't a functioning NOS bottle be a non-rice mod?

[DCaff300ZX]

That, and just cheap and especially questionable mods that do more harm than good, such as NOS-ing your VTEC...or really gassing anything that isn't purpose-built for it such as a drag racer.