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Performance upgrades for a 2003 I4 Solara & Electric Tur

Performance upgrades for a 2003 I4 Solara & Electric Tur

Postby deathkeeper48 » Sun Jun 15, 2003 6:30 pm

Hi!

I'm new to these boards, being a Nissan 240SX guy. I will soon be working on a 240SX turbo project for myself, but had some questions about performance upgrades for my friend's 2003 I4 Solara. He wants moderate horsepower gains for his daily driver. Looks like there is not much aftermarket support for this engine at all. Has anyone tried the only centrifugal electric turbo on the market http://www.acturbo.com/index2.html ?
I was thinking of this as a plan-

Twin ACTurbo Electric Turbos
High Flow Apexi Air Filter
Zex 50HP Dry Nitrous Kit (Automatically kicks in at Wide Open Throttle)
Custom 2.5" exhaust w/Apexi Dual muffler
Catco High Flow Cat

Does anyone make an aftermarket header for this engine?

With this setup he should be pushing 230-240HP.

Suggestions?
Boost... the replacement for displacement.
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Postby Turbosolara » Sun Jun 15, 2003 11:17 pm

I am not sure if the hair blower will work, please share us the result after you try it.
but i know that Apexi filter will not fit, and with 2.5" dual your car will lose lot of power because lost of back pressure.

what kind 240 you have anyway? I am a proud owner of S14 too.
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Postby TadS » Mon Jun 16, 2003 10:29 am

Are you going to use some kind of fuel mgmt system? I mean if those electro thingies do what they say they will, couldn't you run into a lean fuel mix problem? I don't know too much about fuel mixing, so I might be completely off base, but from what I have read on forced induction, an aftermarket fuel computer is pretty important.
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Postby Turbosolara » Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:31 pm

oh yeah i forgot to mention that you need to find out how to deal with the map sensor. The factory map sensor cannot take positive force, maybe, you can use the mr2 turbo sensor, or use a bypass vlave as mine. and yes, if that thing really work, you might need to find a A/F management, like SAFC and a dyno-tunning. So this electro turbo project you are looking at about $1000
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Postby Guest » Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:16 pm

I should be picking up a 1990 S13 240sx this weekend if the tests go fine and it doesn't have any major problems. I have been researching the car for a few months now and decided to be original instead of an SR20DET guy, and bulletproof & turbo the KA24E engine already in it. It will be a fun project.

Anyways, I think the most those hair dryers in a twin setup could really push in real use would be about 3-3.2PSI if that. I will look into the MR2 map sensor. Without running a dry shot of NOS, couldn't I just use a rising rate fuel pressure regulator and high flow fuel pump to compensate for that small amount of boost?
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Postby deathkeeper48 » Mon Jun 16, 2003 3:21 pm

Ooops... forgot to log in. That was my post above,
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Postby Turbosolara » Tue Jun 17, 2003 3:16 am

Anonymous wrote:Anyways, I think the most those hair dryers in a twin setup could really push in real use would be about 3-3.2PSI if that. I will look into the MR2 map sensor. Without running a dry shot of NOS, couldn't I just use a rising rate fuel pressure regulator and high flow fuel pump to compensate for that small amount of boost?


Nope. Solara is using fuel returnless system which has the fuel presure regualtor in the fuel tank and there is no fuel return line to the tank. you need to mod the fuel system if you want to install a boost depended fuel pressure regulator. but if you plan to use nos already, why dont you just use nos all the way instead of using the hair blower + nos?
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