turbo'd my 240
 

I bought my 240 three years ago, bone stock. It's a 96' se with sunroof, fogs, 5spd and spoiler. Everything but vlsd....
It had 160,000 no it when i brought home so it needed some a little tlc. I used my borthers polishing wheel and three step polished it bringing back a sexy shine. The guy I bought it from drove a company car so the 240 sat for a year in a parking lot unused.
first on the list of upgrades were as follows: the typical air intake and a HKS catback and Altima e-fans. the shocks were blown in the rear so four new KYB AGX's, then with the new shocks a found a new problem, subframe bushings in the rear where shot. I installed solid aluminium bushings from JDS performance.
A year past from that point and I decided to turbo the stock motor, I did a lot of research on this site and many others. It took my almost two years to collect all the parts.
This is my list of the turbo build:
Jgs starter kit (manifold, wastegate, down pipe, dump tube, oil lines)
Turbonetics t3/t04e a/r .48
raptor bov
DW 550cc injectors
godspeed fmic (s14 ka24de)
JWT ecu
z32 maf
window welded motor/trans. mounts
hallman boost controler
clutchmasters stage 3
AEM wideband
autometer boost gauge
sr 3" DP
3" test pipe
Im sure there is a few things i've missed.
On with the pics....
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Before intercooler install

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after
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I was very happy I could keep the fogs in stock placement.

I went with the godspeed kit so I didnt have to relocate the battery. It's not a bad kit for $300, it's identical to the greddy kit. I was able to keep the a/c too!
I only have 100 miles on so far, still breaking in the clutch. I'm going to run 7- 10 psi, thats about all i care to take it to with motor having 169,000 miles on it.
The open wastegate dump sounds bad a**, but i'm eventually going to route it back to the exhaust.
Over all i am very pleased with how it came out. I still have a some odds and ends to take care of but its fully functional right now.

What do you guys think?

F'ing awesome dude!

Nice build, not too different from what I am planning for mine.

Any dyno numbers or plans for dyno tuning in the near future?

looks nice i like that intercooler set up

nice zenki
goin' to move this to show and shine

I was impressed with the intercooler set myself, it didnt turn out that bad. No dyno numbers yet but I plan on ot after I break in my clutch. I will do a run with 7psi and one with 10 psi. I hope to be at 275 rwhp at 10 psi.
I had to replace the bov recirculation tube with a radiator hose I bought from the parts store today. I was having idleing problems from the recirc. tube being kinked.
I highly recomend this intercooler kit, if you have a an s14 and want to turbo it try this kit over the sr kits. It worked great for me useing the JGS kit, the only thing I had to get was a 2" 90 degree coupler to finish of the hot pipes.

Ahh, I was trying to see how close you were to my goals, I'm looking to make about the same power, maybe more. Goal is 300 to the wheels, but my motor is being built with forged parts right now. Congrats on the build.

with forged internals you should be ok 350-400whp with a good tune of course maybe more

My issue is I'm too lazy to sit down and size out a turbo right now....

yea my goals were 300 whp but i figured I'd be realistic with a stock motor. I'm sure it would take 300+ but i'm not going to push it.