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Pinky
10-30-2007, 10:51
been reading up on this...

http://motordyneengineering.com/350Z.htm

maybe for Christmas
Bow
10-30-2007, 10:53
Blah!

Buy a vertical Mill or a CNC and make your own!
initial what?
10-30-2007, 12:45
for serious
if i could take your plenum to bmt for a day, i could have that made for $25 at most.
Pinky
10-30-2007, 13:51
then why did ed laugh at me when i said i wanted to make one?
King
10-30-2007, 17:22
Spacers aren't difficult to make.
There is a CNC shop in Houston look them up and give them a call.
stitches
10-31-2007, 12:24
just keep researching. who else makes spacers?
sourcandy
10-31-2007, 17:00
Cause having one made would require CAD drawings of the part at the very min if not a plenum to copy, and it's going to cost more than 25 bucks. Exhaust manifold flanges that Bow had done by a buddy cost 25 a piece and that was steel. AL is more expensive. and the part is more intrique and larger, thus it has to be milled form a larger chunk of AL... this costs more. It's not like you can got down to lowe's and make this ****.
AbduktedTemplar
10-31-2007, 17:40
so dumb question how does this spacer make more power?
initial what?
10-31-2007, 17:44
Cause having one made would require CAD drawings of the part at the very min if not a plenum to copy, and it's going to cost more than 25 bucks. Exhaust manifold flanges that Bow had done by a buddy cost 25 a piece and that was steel. AL is more expensive. and the part is more intrique and larger, thus it has to be milled form a larger chunk of AL... this costs more. It's not like you can got down to lowe's and make this ****.

gotta friend who does this stuff all day every day. made a few things for my old hatch and many things for another friend and never charged us for materials. honestly i think the only reason he charged us anything is because there was a strip club directly behind his building
Pinky
10-31-2007, 18:05
so dumb question how does this spacer make more power?

The factory plenum on my car restricts airflow to the front cylinders. It was pretty much a space saving thing to allow the strut bar to fit under the hood. Adding a spacer increases the airflow which increases more power. The new HR motors don't need it..which i guess explains the ugly hood bulge?
AbduktedTemplar
10-31-2007, 18:22
oh ic thx =)
sourcandy
10-31-2007, 18:50
it also increases the volume of air in the plenum yielding supposedly 15hp gains topend
sourcandy
10-31-2007, 18:51
gotta friend who does this stuff all day every day. made a few things for my old hatch and many things for another friend and never charged us for materials. honestly i think the only reason he charged us anything is because there was a strip club directly behind his building

I could use a few CNC things.
Pinky
10-31-2007, 18:56
it also increases the volume of air in the plenum yielding supposedly 15hp gains topend

that's what i said...more space obviously equals more volume.
initial what?
10-31-2007, 18:57
thats what you meant.... not what you said
stitches
11-02-2007, 12:54
I say buy intake and exhaust first.
sourcandy
11-02-2007, 14:24
I say buy intake and exhaust first.

intake and exhaust isn't going to yeild as much combined as this one spacer, and the cost for the spacer is cheaper than either one.

Most bang for your buck.
GamblerZ
11-02-2007, 17:06
I say buy intake and exhaust first.
New intake is not going to yield you much returns if you do not relieve the bottleneck at the plenum. Plenum = 15hp. Intake = abt. 4hp. Hmmm. Let me think about that one.

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f56/RedRaiderZ/youlooser.jpg
initial what?
11-02-2007, 18:43
jackass
Pinky
11-02-2007, 20:08
it's not like i have a stock air filter in there either.
GamblerZ
11-02-2007, 20:38
jackass
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