Project Nissan 350Z - Turbo Install
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Check out two cheap tricks to keep your car from overheating.
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Part 9: In The End, You Always Have To Stop.
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Intl Project Car Nissan B13 Sentra
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April 2005 It was another gray, drippy day in Tokyo, a land infested with power lines, radio towers, and all the scenery-choking flotsam that erupts around such a hastily built megalopolis. Tokyo is, to be blunt, a shitty place to photograph a car. But that's where the car -- a Bozz-tuned EVO VIII -
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Read all about our Project Nissan Silvia: Part VII, brought to you exclusively by the experts at Sport Compact Car Magazine.
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There are 14 cars in Sport Compact Car's project fleet. Fourteen examples of aftermarket automotive glory ranging from the smoothly polished, diaper-wiped, Q-tip-cleaned neurosis of Project 300ZX to the rat's nest of wires, dirt and weld splatter that is Project Rally Beater.
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Buick Regals roll in slow and spacious formation leaving Cheyenne, Wyo. The 350Z is a wolf in a henhouse of pedestrian traffic, growling through stainless-steel pipes and carving up lanes of humdrum metal. Good people dressed by Sears, Roebuck and Co. shoot looks of "what's your rush?" at our eastbo
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It's been a long while since our last update on Project Z. If you consider 16 months a long time, that is. The problem with long-lived project cars is once you get to a certain point, it's hard to find new things to do. We knew there were issues with the car's
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Project 350Z has just become our second project car in a year to reach the once fanciful goal of 1.0g on street tires. Like making 100 hp per liter on pump gas, pulling a street g is slowly working its way from theoretical fantasy to everyday reality. Doing th
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If you've ever worked on a car before, you know these projects are never as simple as they should be. This goes double for anything built to a magazine deadline. There are always countless details that are either left out, or figured out after the story goes t
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All SR20s run hot, but this goes double for 280-whp, turbocharged SR20DETs in flat black cars on the racetrack in 100-degree weather. The problem, I'm convinced, is a bad water pump design, but since nodboy seems to have made a better water pump, the solution
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It's surprising every time you don't hear a thud.
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It's a weather pattern so consistent and predictable, it's known to every L.A. resident by the same, cheesy evening news buzzword. After a stifling May heatwave (Remember the triple-digit temperatures that thwarted last month's 12-second quarter mile attempt?)
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Elsewhere in this issue you will read about how to choose the right turbo for your car. The explanation uses compressor maps, math, and the need to at least pretend you understand some complex engineering concepts.
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So much for dialing in the suspension and reaching for 1.0g on the skidpad. Now I'm drag racing for my job.
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Part I: All That Stops Or Turns
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Project Silvia is flat black. Deal with it. Learn to appreciate it. Flat black says serious. It says Mad Max. It says "you can take your shiny little show car and stuff it up my 3-inch titanium exhaust."
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When we last left off, we were busy upgrading the suspension and safety equipment of Project Z in anticipation of big power gains. Work is progressing rather slowly on our promised super engine, but don't despair, we aren't slacking off. Actually, we're moving
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In our last foray in the adventure of building the poor man's exotic killer, we did some extensive suspension and brake work to prepare the chassis of Project 300ZXTT to make it worthy for the installation of our anticipated 500-hp-to-the-wheels engine. In thi
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Because our original plans for a super-exotic brake system were thwarted due to production delays, we did a nice, but slightly less trick brake system to keep the car's stopping ability somewhat in line with its power output
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You know how project cars can be, especially ones with goals that are as ambitious as the results we desire from Project 300ZX; stuff has to be made, things fail during testing, other things need to be redesigned. Days stretch out to become weeks, weeks become
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In our last installment of Project 300ZX Twin Turbo (September '99), we began detailing our plans for a new engine built to handle 600 to 700 hp. Unfortunately, progress on that engine is running slower than expected (which, ironically enough, is what we have
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Project 200SX 1.6 is sort of a John Hughes-ish coming-of-age story of a homely girl (er, car) that is overlooked by the crowd, remakes herself and ends up joining the popular crowd. Or so we hope.
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For the last few years, we have been devoting a large portion of our project car efforts to the first and second generations of Nissan's killer sleepers, the Sentra and 200SX SE-Rs. These two SR20DE-powered pocket rockets have proven to be modification-friendl
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