Toddnos's JWT pocharger and heat shield

[toddnos]

I said i would not install anything that didnt look stock, but today i bought the pop charger and heat shield.$120 bux at performance Nissan of Duarte Ca.I tried West covina Nissan yesterday and they were sold out. Both had ebay ads for the item.

This should be a nice addition to my Kenetix upper plenum, and Z tube!

Install will be tomorrow after i open my presents ...pixors too.

How do you guys like your pop charger set up?





I notice a lot of hissing now...not from the filter..it may be just the air going through the Z tube??? Anybody notice a lot of hissing with the pop charger install?


Modified by toddnos at 1:58 PM 12/25/2008

[G35_Rider]

Nice wootttt sound

[RED_DET]

What happen to your "ram air" section?

[toddnos]

The ram air sectio is at home in my shed,,,i plan to finish the install after i get home from my parents house this weekend.

after the install, i hear a hissing sound, and now the car has a rough idle.i believe i need to do the throttle relearn procedure. Or i have a vacuum leak or something. The same thing happened when i did the kenetix install, these G35s are super sensitive ecu wise....

[4drmadness]

i had the hissing sound as well, it went away when i put some exhaust parts on there. i think the hissing is normal. perform the throttle learning procedure and you shud be set

[tollboothwilley]

I didnt have any issues after installing my plenum spacer or jwt/z-tube combo..

[RED_DET]

You should maybe hear a whistle sound under certain driving conditions, but a hissing sound @ idle sounds definitely like a vacuum leak. Make sure the hose that goes to the intake tube secure and all the clamps.

[toddnos]

By the time i drove home from my parents, i had a SES light, and rough idle. I did some looking, and discovered i had a major vacuum leak at the plenum.The Kenetix gasket material is a cork like substance. it became saturated with oil from the pcv system, and deteriorated. I need to install a catch can set up soon.

To fix the problem, i needed a new gasket. I didnt have one, so i used my old blox spacer and added it to the kenetix upper plenum. It solved the vacuuum leak, and actually works and sounds great.

Now im rockin a JWT popcharger to Z tube to Kenetix upper with blox 5/8 spacer.

[tollboothwilley]

why are you using a spacer with the v+ plenum???

here's a link to a catch canhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...A1318

$20 shipped off ebay. Can't go wrong with this.

How is this installed though?

[toddnos]

why are you using a spacer with the v+ plenum???

here's a link to a catch canhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...A1318

$20 shipped off ebay. Can't go wrong with this.

How is this installed though?

read carefully lad! I had to replace the gasket on the V+ due to oil saturation. The cork like gasket had absorbed oil, and that was allowing a large vacuum leak. I did not have a stock gasket to use, but i did have my old blox spacer just laying around which is just a large gasket.It worked, and fixed the vacuum leak which was causing a rough idle, and SES light.

Thanks for the link on the catch can! it goes in line of the PCV hose that connects to the upper plenum i believe.
Modified by toddnos at 10:57 AM 12/28/2008

[tollboothwilley]

Sorry, must have missed that the gasket was part of the V+ plenum.

I did some research on where the catch can goes. It replaces the hose on the front side of the engine that attaches the crankcase to the intake.

I'd give you a link to the install, but its to a competing forum. Let me see if i can find one here.

[4drmadness]

yea im thinking of putting a oil catch can as well, i remember i saw some oil residue when installing the spacer

[tollboothwilley]

I should just install one and do a write up on it...

[toddnos]

I should just install one and do a write up on it...

nate was doing a one off catch can DIY a think...

[toddnos]

This is my new setupJWT pop charger to Ztube With Kenetix upper plenum and Blox 5/8 spacer.

I blocked of the heat shield for now until i can find my stock tube.I also cut out some of the plastic splash guard so cool air can get in.

[ca18detgabby]

doesnt cutting away at the splash gaurd leave you more likely to drink some water?

I know when we did it on the S13 it also allowed a butt load of dirt into the engine bay. It was real annoying.

looks good

[toddnos]

doesnt cutting away at the splash gaurd leave you more likely to drink some water?

I know when we did it on the S13 it also allowed a butt load of dirt into the engine bay. It was real annoying.

looks good

indeed it does open the possibility of water and dirt getting into the engine bay. Its just something i do to all my cars....I may eventually run a true CAI down to that opening in the plastic splash guard.

[Sentientbydesign]

I should just install one and do a write up on it...

I beat you to it...sorta. I'll revise my post with a complete how-to and install pics. My catch can has about 2-3 ounces of oil in it after 4k miles.

If anybody wants a custom made catch can (from some super cool, non-automotive vessel), email me

[4drmadness]

i do nate, please make me one

[tollboothwilley]

buy one from ebay. $20 shipped.

you can even get it in colors that match grounding wires or other mods

[4drmadness]

yea i might just do that. hey for the clear corners, did you buy white lights as well? if so, which ones did u get? i wanna change the amber ones and get super white. im gona change the parking lights as well cause i dont like the yellowness. both of them are 168, but i dont know which ones to get

[toddnos]

yea i might just do that. hey for the clear corners, did you buy white lights as well? if so, which ones did u get? i wanna change the amber ones and get super white. im gona change the parking lights as well cause i dont like the yellowness. both of them are 168, but i dont know which ones to get

hey douchebags...quit off topic posting in my thread.....thanks

[toddnos]

With the recent discussions about the JWP pop charger losing power, i would like to welcome comments on that here.I think the claims of intake temps of 170 degrees to be I also know that from years of modding a few things:When you add an intake exhaust and header package, or remove you cats, your car feels like it has lost some power,,,when in fact what it has lost is the factory feel of a whooosh of torque off of the stoplight for soccer moms to enjoy. What you have in fact gained is real to the ground horsepower that has maybe shifted your powerband, but not robbed you of power.I know this is proven when i used to have to smog my car with removed cat. When i put the stock intake and cat back on, the car felt faster off the line, but wheezed out in the higher RPMs.So in conclusion, to put your stock airbox back on, because you think you have lost torque by installing a JWT popcharger is silly.This is just one mans .02

[RED_DET]

You can call it silly or whatever, but this isn't the first car I have done mods to. Secondly if you loose peak torque, you have lost power, I don't care how you look at it. To pick up 4-5hp and loose that in torque is no gain what so ever in my book. Don't let the sound of that pop charger fool you into thinking it makes more power than it really does. How much power does any intake really make on the G35? All of them make around the same power, 2-3whp and all of them loose torque, you even said so yourself. You would need many more mods to go along with that intake setup to really make any real gains. Intake/Exhaust/Spacer/Headers and then with all those mods, a tune is still necessary to take full advantage. The first intake mod that should be done on the G is the plenum spacer, hands down.

[toddnos]

You can call it silly or whatever, but this isn't the first car I have done mods to. Secondly if you loose peak torque, you have lost power, I don't care how you look at it. To pick up 4-5hp and loose that in torque is no gain what so ever in my book. Don't let the sound of that pop charger fool you into thinking it makes more power than it really does. How much power does any intake really make on the G35? All of them make around the same power, 2-3whp and all of them loose torque, you even said so yourself. You would need many more mods to go along with that intake setup to really make any real gains. Intake/Exhaust/Spacer/Headers and then with all those mods, a tune is still necessary to take full advantage. The first intake mod that should be done on the G is the plenum spacer, hands down.

The sound of the pocharger hasnt fooled me into thinking anything. In fact it is the quietest intake i have ever heard. My Kenetix upper plenum which i installed first already gives it a growl. The car became faster with the kenetix upper, then faster still with the pop charger. Oh, and still yet faster when i put the Blox spacer back in as well...It is no longer a punchy stock feeling car, but a car that has gained horsepower. I would guess that my wheel HP/TQ is now somewhere near the advertised crank HP/TQ.I realize a tune is going to help smooth out the powerband on the dyno, but is not required to make power on our G. I plan to have sean church tune my G in the future, but i know for a fact it is faster. And i am 36 and been modding/building/racing cars for 20 years...im not going to be taken to school very easily....

[Sentientbydesign]

I highly doubt that your intake mods have improved airflow so much as to bring your rwhp up to the advertised crank power.

The closest I've seen rwhp to advertised crank is on my coupe with the JWT flywheel, k&n drop-in filter and blox spacer. That was 273 (advertised at 298).

I usually like intakes for two main purposes. Throttle response and to hear the engine. I think the intake (heads up) can definitely be improved, but I don't think JWT, Stillen, or any of the other manufacturers have really figured it out.

[RED_DET]

I'm not even going to discuss this any further if you really think those 3 simple bolt on mods have brought your car up to 260whp. I hope your car isn't an automatic, because bone stock they only make around 210-215 Wheel Horsepower. So now your are trying to tell me that a plenum spacer, half a$$ intake and plenum gave you almost 45-50 Wheel Horse Power. That is the joke of the day. If it's a manual, they only make 220-230. So no, they aren't giving you 30 wheel horsepower either. I know what simple way you can find out though, put it on a dyno, but you will be awfully disappointed by the results. I will give you 15 whp difference, 20 max and that is pushing it.

[toddnos]

I'm not even going to discuss this any further if you really think those 3 simple bolt on mods have brought your car up to 260whp. I hope your car isn't an automatic, because bone stock they only make around 210-215 Wheel Horsepower. So now your are trying to tell me that a plenum spacer, half a$$ intake and plenum gave you almost 45-50 Wheel Horse Power. That is the joke of the day. If it's a manual, they only make 220-230. So no, they aren't giving you 30 wheel horsepower either. I know what simple way you can find out though, put it on a dyno, but you will be awfully disappointed by the results. I will give you 15 whp difference, 20 max and that is pushing it.

15-20 hp is the difference between flywheel and to the wheel horsepowerso i hold my claim to be true. and it seems you agree by your statement above.hey if you dont want to discuss it ,,,,then dont discuss it anymore, this is a thread started by me, and i will discuss it all i want.

your the one who is fooling themselves claiming the jwt popcharger actually loses tq/hp by installing it.end of story.

[tollboothwilley]

Dude, there is a 15% drivetrain loss (the GTR has 10% loss) of power between crank and wheels. if you have 280 stock (with the 6MT) then you are at 238 rwhp. If you have the revup you are pushing 298 that would be 253 rwhp.

if you have the 5AT you are at 221 or 238 with the revup.

[4drmadness]

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