GTM Performance Engineering VQ45VHR-Our Journey to The 1000 HP and Beyond

toner123

It is official this thread has turned in to everything possible. I bet this thread alone covers every section on this forum lol.

JB-370z

I really like this Bullitt. Are these going on your car?

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Vegitto-kun

No those were rims he showed me as a example of what I should do with mine

JB-370z

Well it beats talking about Polar bear jucies!

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Vegitto-kun

not yet we still need to discuss his steering wheel

white and creamy

JollyGoodChap

sub'd due to the amount of win in this thread!

Reality

Bumping for 1000hp and beyond...

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98intrigue

1 drop per fastener on those Stasse wheels.

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Mike@GTM

Here's an update on our intake manifold. We've been working with a Rapid Prototyping company, and it's taking a little longer than we anticipated. Nevertheless, here are some images generated from the scanning software. One of the biggest advantages of this process is the ability to verify air flow through the intake and make any necessary changes to the design in CAD to eliminate any restrictions. The design has been finalized and is being "grown" as we speak. According to the company we are working with, we should have the prototype in hand next week. At that time, we will be test fitting the lower manifold in conjunction with the GT-R upper intake plenum and performing some initial dyno testing to verify the design.

Some of you familiar with rapid prototyping have suggested growing the part in titanium. Unfortunately, this part is physically too large to print using an iterative metal laser sintering process. Not to mention that even if their "printer" was large enough, it would take over a month just to print! Given that people want to see this car finished, we found the timeframe unacceptable. Therefore, we will be using a new type of high temperature plastic developed to be tested in harsh operating conditions (such as a forced induction manifold). Although we were skeptical of using plastic on this part of the engine, the material specifications convinced us that it is well within operating parameters.

We have several cars that we will be testing this manifold setup on: a stock 370z (to see what effect this manifold has on an NA application), a GTM supercharged 370z, and of course the White Dragon. Given that we can make adjustments to things like runner diameter and length in CAD, we can fine tune the performance to suit the particular application.

Also, it has been our experience that the factory HR/VHR upper intake plenum starts having issues with over 15psi of boost and 700whp (afterall it was designed for an NA application). Using our lower intake plenum in conjunction with the GT-R upper intake plenum will allow for more boost and more power.

Enough technobabble, here are some pics:

JB1

Why not have the part casted in Aluminum? I know a few suppliers in Europe that can do rapid casting. Lead time of about 3 or 4 weeks.

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toner123

What is the price on this thing going to cost. Like I am sure by now you are aware of how much it is costing to make so that should allow you to give us a ballpark figurefor us.
Frank

christian370z

This update just made my day Mike, thank you very much for the update. I cannot wait to see how this manifold plays on a N/A VQ37, hoping for some solid gains!

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bullitt5897

Another update:

I picked up a daily driver yesterday a flat black 2008 WRX STI 5DR with now 30K miles and bronze prodrive 19" wheels:

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Vegitto-kun

you have too much money man.

this build + that car.

wishihadnav

nice mike!..i see a rotated 35r in your future..haha