Rockets New Build - Power Up

[oggy]

Nope, still don't see it

[Rocket55]

You usually won't, but you'll know it when it happens

[oggy]

Your starting to worry me Rod I think an intervention may be on the cards... First you down sized the boat to a kayak. Now the squash racquet for a pong paddle Then of course there's the small matter of downsizing the hilux for the patrol Keep this up and you'll be the same size as Kyle in no time

[Rocket55]

2 kayaks, for twice the fun.

[Rocket55]

Another piece of the puzzle arrived today 4" Fatz airbox and pipe work

[Skog07]

Another couple of bits turned up today





Airbox should be here tomorrow, turbo leaves today, pump, clutch, etc. should be here next week

I totally see Rockets build.. A bean bag on a mat with two steering wheel controls for his Wii and a big box of pizza's.

[dan9245]

Don't mind me, just popping in to steal some ideas for the patrol in the future once funds permit!

That airbox would be way better than the stock restrictive one on our patrols! looks nice also, how much the cross country intercooler set you back mate if you don't mind me asking?!

She is coming along nicely mate.

[Rocket55]

Well started to install the bits today. First up is the Radius Fab 4" snorkel.

As it started





Out with the old





Mark it up and take a deep breath, used an air hacksaw to chop out the hole. Also had to chop out both skins of the inner guard to 4"+ for the airbox inlet.





A sigh of relief



What a pain in the butt getting the elbow into the airbox inlet hole through the inner guards, but fed it through from the engine bay side. The intermeadiate tube will only go in via the big new hole you just cut. Far out it's tight, there's only millimeters of clearance, like 1 or 2 if that. these things were never designed to accomodate 4" inlets that's for sure. Sprayed all the silicon bits with silicon spray to lub them up and they just slip on real easy and make it easy to adjust, doesn't solve the lack of space problem but at least it goes together easy.

Drilled a couple of extra holes in the A pillar, whacked in a few rivnuts and the bracket was done, easy as. The Radius Fab snorkel covers all the holes on the guard but leaves to top hole on the A pillar exposed. I simply drilled it out to 9mm, threw a rivnut in there and whacked a 6mm stainless button head screw in there, looks neat as.

A few hours later, after many, many trial fits and adjustments and it's done



Tomorrow I'll trial fit the airbox and intercooler and while I'm feeling confident, might chop the bonnet up and install the scoop.

[Web-eng]

Looking the goods mate.
Good choice going with a proper snorkel top. Those backwards facing open end pipe bends never look any good.

[Rocket55]

Spent today fitting my new scoop. It's a great looking thing with a very high quality of finish.

First job, remove the under bonnet insulation and the original scoop, then sit the new cooler in place to mark out the location. Engine bay looks better already.





Put the little foam blocks on the corners of the cooler and close the bonnet. They stick to the bonnet, drill through next to them and you now have your cooler location. Get your template and a helper and locate the template on the bonnet, measure many times.



Drill all the holes (27 of them) out to 8mm. First I drilled them at 3mm then removed the template, put down a heap of masking tape and then drilled them all to 8mm. Then trial fitted the scoop, all good. Get your air hacksaw out and chop a whopping huge hole in the middle of the bonnet. Clean up all the edges with a flapper wheel, debur and then give it a polish and your left with this. Seal the edges with some paint, I used Rust Guard and then sit the scoop on and see how it looks. This is as far as I got, I'll need to bolt it down later, much later.

Post edited, so as to not encourage other to bugger their bonnet...

NOTE: cut a rectangle that joins up the 4 holes you drilled through at the location of your foam blocks, don't follow the template like I did or you'll be up for another bonnet like I am

[packeteer]

bloody h00ge!!!

[Rocket55]

All the better to cool with, keeps EGT's and engine temp well and truely in check I hope.

[dan9245]

OMG thats effing massive, is that the new 3.0l CRD extreme cooler they made for them? pretty much the 4.2 cooler..? Loooks awesome, how much that set you back mate, heard they make a decent improvement for torque and temps and everything else.

[oggy]

Mark it up and take a deep breath,

Love this bit. "cut out" just incase there was any confusion Must be for datsun owners who have never owned a lux, aye Rod

[Rocket55]

OMG thats effing massive, is that the new 3.0l CRD extreme cooler they made for them? pretty much the 4.2 cooler..? Loooks awesome, how much that set you back mate, heard they make a decent improvement for torque and temps and everything else.

That is the 4.2 cooler on a 4.2. It's Much bigger than the standard unit.

This



verses this



Here's the scoop sitting on a table tennis table, it's also pretty big.



The TD42's are notorious for generating excess engine temp, but with an effecient cooler and turbo you can make big power on the stock cooling system, shouldn't see EGT's over 450ish at 200rwkw

[Rocket55]

Mark it up and take a deep breath,

Love this bit. "cut out" just incase there was any confusion Must be for datsun owners who have never owned a lux, aye Rod

In all honesty Oggy I was unsure what was going to happen I just cut along the line and lucky for me the small bit fell out, because frankly if the bigger outside bit fell off I don't think I would have been strong enough to pick it back up, certainly wouldn't have fit in the bin...

[ktm300]

How much power you chasing rocket ?

[Rocket55]

Initially abot 185-190, with the ability to go just over 200 and about 750-800 Nm

[jakelux]

Initially abot 185-190, with the ability to go just over 200 and about 750-800 Nm

You should of just tinkered with a v6 lux to get those numbers..

Nice snork! What pinch weld stuff did you use to go around the cut?

[Rocket55]

That's Kw's at the rear wheels Jake, so about 260-270Kw at the flywheel of 350 - 360hp in the old money (give or take). Not to bad for a Datson, I know the Toyota would probably do better, but you won't beat the Datson exhaust note

The pinch weld came in the kit.