Geoff W Completed!

I have officially been handed the keys for the micra today.

Jason spent this week finalising minor details

- adjust the boost cut setting

- adjust idle down from a crazy 1800rpm

- install the new HKS Type 1 Turbo Timer, which includes features like 0-400m timing, lap timer, peak rpm recall, speed alarm, rpm with 2 stage shift light function, and of course turbo timer that monitors the rpm patterns and adjusts idle time accordingly.

- searching for tiny vacuum leaks that could be causing a varying idle speed.

- installed and wired up new oxygen sensor and connected autometer A/F ratio guage.

After all this I am super impressed with every drive I have and slowly getting used to the whole new attitude of the car. It really is amazing how effortless yet smooth the car drives.... you don't feel the need to flog it because you really don't have to.

All this fun on 7psi goes to show how amazing the turbo conversion can be when done right.

I'll be getting a copy of the Dyno sheet soon which will be scanned and posted as soon as possible.

I've gotta give it a great big clean up and take some proper photos and post em all in this topic, cause this is really a handy way to keep a record of your journey with your car.....of course barring a server crash etc..

good work Geoff, i have seen pics of your car before, nice job!

give us another pic of the super s logo....

pics!!!

awesome geoff!! i remember reading your thread about this months ago and looking forward to it

good work, good to see someone else on here takes pride in presentation.

Ok then here we go, it's raining cats and dogs here today so what better excuse than to get organised and post some pics for all those interested parties :)

So Here goes

Random door open shot.....abstract i know.

Awesome mate =)
bit more motivation for the rest of us!

So there you have it.... sorry bout the pics coming out a little blurry but that's a consequence of the resizing. At least by the method I used anyway.

I'm glad people think so highly of the car cause its been a very long journey since I bought the car about six years ago. Amazing how life changes in that time too... but if you keep your eye on the goal you can do it too.

Of course there's still plenty left to do, like clutch, strenthen this and that etc... but most of the hard yards have been completed by Jason..... Thanks again!!! Can't really describe how it feels to drive the car now. It's something you've gotta experience.... But awesome comes close to the best way to describing it.

Anyhow hope people enjoy the pics and thanks for all the comments :)

wow....


very neat looking turbo set up mate, props to you and who ever helped you. Do you still have aircon? i still cant get over how good that manifold looks :)

any idea how much power you got out of it?? 0-100??
looks pretty sweet! how much did it cost you all up?

dude absolutely awesome effort.. love the color and the rim choice and the details you've gone to with the turbo install

cool love the look and the mods you've done,similar taste to me. Let us no when you have a run with some other cars just to give a little perspective of how quick it really is.
I no your loving it but is there any thing your not 100% happy with or would like to change other than boosting it up more?

i like your little bracket thing that holds your hand controller!... should heat wrap or hpc coat your manifold.. its letting the rest of the bling down!

That is looking very cool. Can't wait to see some nice pics of it in the sun too. That paint looks slick.

Umm cost..... hard to say yet, haven't had the balls to add it up yet but it's hefty.

Performance.... been told 102Kw atw with 330 Nm



Air con gone, was just too difficult to keep with the front mount cooler that I had.





Well yeah there's always something but it always comes down to $$$$
It woulda been nice to get the gearbox and clutch done in one hit but the results so far are really really excellent.

The plan with the gearbox is to get it "blueprinted" to ensure each gear meshes nicely and uses the full gear face to bear load.

Air con woulda been a nice touch but at least there's a sun roof to ease the pain.. but sometimes that's the price to pay for fun factor.

Ultimately it will get rods and forged pistons and be built to run about 15psi. But that's many savings down the track. At least the turbo is well suited to that.


Other than that the car is awesome at the moment and has been described as the closest thing to a go kart on the road!

Ha ha funny you should say that... Jason already had this sweet little thing organised to cut some of the heat to the alternator and the radiator. Seems to be working super well too....Ta again Jas.

Oh yeah and while he had it at work at the tyre shop he was playing around with some 18s!!! Crazy.

Hey buddy that's pretty good seeing the car had at least 4 days road grime on it... take a close look at the wheels pics.... usually much much better looking... another case of photos hiding details.

wanna make another manifold????

hell yeh, very nice indeed. ... 18'' chromies look mad

those chromies look shocking... please don't ruin it :D

Hey guys thought it was time for an update.

After about a month's driving the 'standard' clutch began to give way. This was expected to happen, however maybe not so soon.

Jason teed up a custom modified one to be made by "First Choice Brake and Clutch" here in Newcastle. It's had the pressure plate modified and a suitable clutch plate to handle around the 300 hp mark.

And let me tell you that after an expert job to uninstall, get the clutch made and re install the box, test and adjust. It's seriously amazing how much difference it makes!

The little beast just boogies now. Both Jason and I suspect that the clutch has been slipping the whole time, including during tuning on the dyno. All seems to be fine as far as air/fuel etc as the computer gets all the info it needs from the miriad of sensors fitted.

Also while the car was over at Jason's work, he did a favour or two for the exhaust shop guy at Phils Exhaust, Wallsend. Phil said that he'd return the favour any way he could so hey presto a new dump pipe back exhaust it is!!

2.5" press bent mild steel all the way through including a cat from a skyline. No restriction left there now. And the thing sounds awesome! With the previous exhaust (2" press bent N/A exhaust) when the car drove by accelerating you could hear a noise much like blowing hard through a straw!

I can safely say that's a thing of the past!

I'm much happier with the mounts on the exhaust too. The previous exhaust (fitted about 5 years ago) was only hung near the cat, and a mount on each side at the back of the muffler. With the high corner loading with my suspension, grippy tyres and spirited driving the pipe snapped out of the front of the muffler on no less than three occasions. So glad to be rid of another little thing that you've been meaning to fix for ages and just keep forgetting about.

After the exhaust and clutch the car made boost a whole lot earlier and harder so much so that the blow off valve began leaking boost fairly badly. We also experienced a problem with the boost cut engaging at anything over about 25% throttle.

We thought that maybe we should leave the leaking in an attempt to lessen the effect of the boost cut. However after trying tightening up the valve a little, we discovered that this was the problem all along!!

Now boost cut only engages in the top end of 4th gear at very high loads. EXCELLENT :P We attribute this to the fact that the turbo is hardly working and is much better suited to an application of around the 15-20 psi range, so it wants to spool up to 15 but is restricted by the boost control of the 8860. As a result the spike of boost hits a little too quickly and the computer cuts the ignition to prevent over boosting. This can be quite violent but I attempt to avoid it at all costs.

You don't need to use full throttle very much anyway! mostly you just let the power gently ramp up and amuse yourself with the fact that this is only a 1.3L engine doing these things so easily.

I must say that it is awesome fun and I wish I could afford to drive the thing everywhere. I guess I'll just have to treat it like a little bit of a big boys toy.

Again, again, again I must give great thanks to Jason for his efforts and wheeling and dealing, labour and overall great friendship for making all this possible. Thanks champ :)

double thumbs up with aaaaye. Brill

haha i agree!!!! the wheels are so much nicer!!!

i realy wanta turbo micra..... how much all up and how long did the conversion take??

A turbo conversion is a big pain in the arse! But listen to how happy the guy is. By the way mate just curious what turbo are you running?
Not sure about your costs but i'm not finished yet and expect the whole thing to have cost me around 5-6g give or take a few hundred.

Sounds like a real hoot to drive,any chance of a short video? I'm thinking of doing one as soon as possible.

How far off is urs Tony?

lol... scratches head.. eerrrr

Not sure! maybe a month,or monthish...

geoff this car is absolutely awesome

when you selling it? save me making an exact look-alike :D

geoff.... been looking through the site... you used to have some sweet white 8spoke wheels in the pics of the newcastle meet... still got them?? or do you know what brand they were?? they look mad.. i want a set!

Hey guys.. sorry the posts have been a little sparse of late.

Guys this car is a pretty big budget affair... but at the same time has cost heaps less than it should have. Cause Jason gets trade price on everything.... but to put it in perspective.. the computer alone, hardware only and the hand controller cost about the 3 grand mark.. this was back when the top of the line EMS 8860 was brand spanking new. So yeah the cost would have dropped by now.




The turbo is one off a CA18DET but has been flowed and spun to be more high flow so at 7 psi its not even starting to think about working hard.

As for video well gotta organise a time to get an hour up the road to Bulahdelah to the same corner as my previous video (see multimedia section) and then there'll be a nice opportunity for comparisons :P


Tris.. mate these wheels were sold at Jasons Tyre shop about 2 days after I got the current Gold wheels on there. So didn't have time or the need to advertise on the site... The offset used to be a little out and I used to experience some scrubbing on the drivers side rear wheel arch. The new King KG-5 Lights are doing the trick nicely :)

The conversion took the best part of 18 months with work being done in between job, house, and marital changes on both mine and Jason's behalf. Cost? To be honest I don't know. It was mostly done through a private arrangment between Jas and myself. I helped him out years ago and this was his payback.. AWESOME hey?

Most things go in thousand dollar jumps these days but that's cause we wanted over engineered parts and the ability to just drop a Forged internal motor into the bay and bolt up the ancillaries, re-tune and go, hard!

Another little snippet.. the Fuel Rail, injectors, throttle body set up cost $1200. Completely outsourced though.

Still driving beautifully and still ecstatic every time I hit that right pedal.

$1200!!! holly shit geoff, i think that puts you into the group "i actually spend money on my micra, i dont dream about it" :) nice work... very few people understand that performance costs money, its not just about going down to your local pipe shop and grabbing a bunch of steam pipe bends and start weldin em up. you/jason have done a great job, and should be proud!

that video doesnt work though... keen to see it and the new one!!!

But what a great way to learn if you're not in 'the trade' !

agreed, best micra out there by far... (i'm biased cause of the colour :)

Hey guys I know I haven't said much lately but heres the update.

Jason recently organised the custom making of a radiator by PWR in QLD to give me that little bit of insurance against overheating the motor and blowing head gaskets etc.

This is what ended up happening. We took the standard radiator and fan out about 4 weeks ago and couriered them up to PWR, so they could size the new one exactly as per the original radiator.

3 weeks later.... I have a 52mm core thickness with the same outer dimensions as the standard radiator and a SPAL 14" fan that flows up to 1750cfm to keep everything cool.

ABSOLUTELY BLOODY BRILLIANT I tell you. This thing is a work of art. Took approximately 1hr to fit and went in without a hitch, bar the fact that the overflow outlet nipple was a little undersized. But this was nothing a tighter little hose clamp did not fix :)

We cut the plug off the standard fan, which by the way is bulky as and takes up precious room in the engine bay. (See Pics and then look at the size of your fan) joined em up soldered and heat shrink and works like a charm. Even got the fan to run the correct direction first time!

Now the car heats up and once the thing idles for about 5 min the fan cuts in, runs for about 45 sec and voila back to normal temp!!

I was having withdrawals from not driving the car so I decided to give her a good run. Gave her a nice wash and took some pics down next to the local Williams River. I've been waiting for ages to get a good day to get some better pics so this was all the excuse I needed.

So from now on you can most likely ask PWR for a radiator similar to this if that's the path you choose. I must say for ease of fitment alone it was well worth the money in my opinion.

Enjoy fellas.

Radiator Number Two... I have some phone pics of it outta the car but haven't uploaded em to the puter yet.... watch this space.

And now for some of the River Pics. I thouroughly enjoyed the sunset reflecting off the car in the way that only a human eye can pick up...

This one is one of the Favourites....:P

But this one is betta :)

A little abstract but I had to get the sunset in there somehow... the car kept gettin in the shot!!

The Super S logo one more time for all its biggest fans...

Just the parkers on now...

An angry mouth hungry for cold air :)

Similar to the moonlit butt shot in the movie Hot Shots, however this one is an engine bay :) That comment shows my age a little!

So there you have it.. I hope you all enjoyed that little escapade. I'll keep adding more as I go...

BTW I'll never sell this thing!

....pwr already had the dimensions etc.. nissanmania had one built by them.. least they had the drawings last time i asked... hmm. weird. how much they end up charging you?

Holyshit that is one tidy micra

very nice

I love this thing! Sorry how much for the radiator?

how freakin mad is the movie hot shots!!

"we use these to keep the noise down" "Why thankyou chuck!"

haha

dude your car is a work of art...

Thanks guys for all the comments... I found and downloaded the pics of the radiator outta the car so here they are.

hey mate you should chop the front grill like mine

Kamz and all you other morons, stop hijacking Geoff's thread.

All your crap got deleted.

that is one beautiful looking car, i am very impressed :D

i love that colour and that open mouth mod, also that super S logo you have, where did you get that from?

i bet it sounds awesome too :D did you have the cam cover polished or chromed?

keep up the great work

The cam cover is polished. Easy to maintain.
I use some stuff made by California Gold called Purple. Get it at Autopro. It's a purple (guess you saw that coming) liquid thats great for all metal polished surfaces. Brings Chrome up unbelievably good. Bout 30 bucks for a bottle but it'll last you years.

I finally got around to getting some polish and wax onto the Micra on the weekend.
Me and Jason spent Sat arvo/evening doing the Meguiars 3 Step on the Micra.
1) Paint Cleaner - removes oxides and old polish/wax to give a good surface to polish
2) Polish - takes the tiniest bit of paint off and takes out swirls from washing/chamoising etc.
3) Meguiars NXT Generation 2.0 Liquid wax ( Great stuff )

This has changed the colour of the car completely. All swirls/buff marks are gone and the pearl in the paint pops, whilst the paint appears to be "deep" again. I love it!

It took about 3 hours all up between the two of us.

We also just waxed Jason's BF XR8 ex-cop chaser on Sunday arvo. It came up beautifully too.

Here's some more piccys. Enjoy.

A crappy one with the flash but shows the colours off a little.

Jason came up with the cool idea of standing on the Plaque in the first photo in this set. Nice work buddy. Came out sweet eh.

This one's my desktop background at the moment :P

An advertisement for Goodyear LS2000 anyone?

Last couple, I couldn't help myself, had to capture the sunset somehow

There you have it... Hope it was good viewing as usual.

Oops found another couple!!! Bored Yet? :P

And the favorite one of the XR.



Shows the size difference between the two quite markedly.

supreme! Very jealous

Looks very nice Geoff, makes me want to dig my micra out of the shed and get it going! Out of interest does the micra keep up with the xr8?

x 11ty billion

Very nice, loving this car heaps! :-)

Spotted you at Turton rd intersection the other day, i drive thru as you were waiting to turn, red micra, drivers door all dinged up!

Sportsclassic.... yeah it does to an extent. It is heaps nimbler through corners so I get the jump on him outta roundabouts etc and he has to play catch up. Pretty even match until about 130 then the big torque of the 5.4L kicks in and he pulls hard all the way to 220 limiter. But he said himself he had to work pretty hard to catch up. Pretty impressive I reckon. He is stoked cause he built this car for me.

Hmmm don't remember exactly. I was probably coming home to the Terrace from JB Hi-Fi. Bought myself some 3 doors down and the new Linkin Park album :) I like.

Ah No... If it was a Saturday about 1:30pm I was on a parts run for Jason from Repco Hamilton to Wallsend twin servos. Was a bit of Fun.

Anyhow beep your horn next time!! I'll wave or probaly stop for a quick chat. If I'm not in a hurry somewhere. I try not to be a snob!

What power you putting down now?

My car was pretty average until 3rd gear..if I didn't have em in that then I gave up haha

do you have a lightweight fly?

Power is 110kw ATW on 9psi. Torque was around the 400Nm mark. But running 7 psi everyday. The real noticable difference is torque. Feels like a much bigger engine now.

And no haven't got a lightweight flywheel yet. It'll probably come with the Forged internals motor I have planned. That's the next goal on the horizon.

thats awesome power mate, almost double what my ST does in its not-quite-right state!

I assume those power figures are from another car and not the K11?

No mate they're from that car (the Blue one in all the pics :) )

...I didn't get the dyno sheet printed out on that particular day, but I will be putting it over the dyno sometime soon to check all is okay after the new exhaust and running it on the street for a while.

With the weather being a bit hotter now I'm getting intake temps of around the 30 degree Celsius mark. So that'll probably rob some power, along with heat soak on the dyno.

Oh yeah and I forgot to post that I did some calcs the other day after a decent day driving.

Went around 350km. mixture of city driving (150km), highway miles (150km) and a good thrashing up the mountains in Bulahdelah.....

8.6 L/100km how's that!!!! I'm stoked. And that's running rich most of the time too, to protect the standard internals :)

I would be very interested to see the printout, as 400Nm from a CG13 on 7psi of boost is not at all realistic, which will also sqew the power figures unfortunetely.

As a comparison we have a fully forged CGA3 running 14.5psi of boost and that currently makes 275Nm at the flywheel.

Yes it is SSUK. Torque is multiplied via the final drive ratio which is why a dyno read torque figure is always higher and up on numbers compared to a flywheel or stock power figure.

Your 275Nm at the flywheel could be somthing like 275x4.11 for the wheel output, if you had 4.11:1 gearset