"BACKSTREET'S BACK, ALRIGHT!!!!!

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!!!!!


After almost 4 months doing all our jobs outside 3J/Runner Up's gets a new garage. This must of been the longest summer ever since we had no quick access to our garage. Since the garage was badly lit and we couldnt open the garage door manually, all of our tools were just scattered every where. As soon as the new door was installed we got to work in making our Kingdom clean again. Can't wait for our next job!!!!!!!!!

A Breath Of Fresh Air

Were Back! Its been a long time since we updated the blog so we'll start with fixing Gatsby's asthma problems.


Due to Nissan's decision to design the looks of their cars before picking a motor to go along with it, Gatsby and all G35/350z/FX35's are born with air starvation to cylinders #5 and #6. Today were gonna cure Gatsby's breathing problems by installing Motordyne's 5/16 Iso Thermal Plenum spacer, Stock 350z intake tube (ztube) and JWT's Popcharger.

Kinda expensive to fix what Nissan should of thought about before mass production, but never the less it must be done. We would like to thank Rick Hall at West Covina Nissan and Ruben at The Nismo Shop for hooking it up!!

Gatsby before being put to sleep (removing battery)  

Parts laid out, lets begin!

Motordyne's iso thermal plenum kit raises the stock plenum .3 inches to provide a larger amount of volume inside the plenum, thus curing the starvation in cylinders 5 and 6

The Bo' starts off by removing the stock intake system

To help cure the air starvation Nissan developed their own Power Duct intake system  (shown here), which is a great improvement but still suffers from air starvation

Now to remove the plenums bolts to get access to the upper plenum collector

This is where the Spacer will be installed, but first we need access to the lower plenum collector. Since there was a hard to reach coolant line behind the plenum we deployed our patent plenum holder hook.

Filthy plenum due to oil air blow back

Nothing a little elbow grease can fix

Motordyne's aramid intake manifold gasket is installed first to help further cooling

But first the upper plenum must be removed for further cleaning

Air blow back should be cleaned.... again

All clean

Now to let let the gasket absorb motor oil to allow it to seal uneven gaps around the manifold. This can be done by adding 2 caps of any type of motor oil in the provided packaging bag and squish.

With the gasket installed, time to put back the upper plenum, bolts must be torqued to first 40 inch pounds then 80 inch pounds and finally 100 inch pounds in an outward sequence to provide the proper seal.

Internal plenum spacer installed

Finally the star of this install arrives, 5/16 plenum spacer.

Crazy how just a gasket and achieve such wonderful results

Motordyne also provided their Coolant Control Valve which lets the user control if you want the ambient air temp. to cool the plenum housing or the engine stock cooling system. Just snip 2 inches from the plenum coolant line and slide right in.

Now to install JWT's headshield

Were not gonna lie..... assembling this damn heatshield was hardest install for today....seriously

Popcharger will be sitting in here

This sucker must of weighed close to 5 pounds

Inside the Popcharger

Popcharger will be connected to a Stock 350z intake tube which has a wider diameter air flow compared to the stock G35s and doesn't have resonators to muffle the sound.

MAF sensor Cleaned and Popcharger attached to Z tube

Intake installed

Carb sticker installed

All done

 Abo recording Gatsby's new set of lungs

Fly by

Final thoughts:

Iso thermal Plenum Spacer

After installing Motordyne's Plenum spacer throttle response sharped dramatically, just depressing the throttle a few millimeters will set the cars coasting at 40mph in no time. The spacer also added a deeper plenum sound through out the power band. Now I see why its a community favorite mod and why Tony at Motordyne Dyno guaranties results up to 14 HP.

JWT popcharger:

All i have to say is wow, this instake is loud as hell. 6 hp gain is probably doubtful but it sure tries to convince you when you get past 4.5 rpm. Great product

Lets Hit The Town!

This is how Gil and the 'Bow roll out 60% of the time, everytime.

Straight out of retirement! A second coming!

Before you read this blog take a second and press play and this youtube video before u procede itll be a nice background song that really sums up this post 

After selling my STi and my Ruckus I really needed a car to commute from home and to school my dad was getting mad that we were sharing his truck and i never put gas in it! lol! 

So i began my  search with a small budget in mind...a whooping $2000 budget i began to comb craigslist every 1 hour to find my new miata...after driving 7 piece of crap miatas i finally found sean. 

He was already retired sitting in his garage reminiscing about days gone bye when his previous owner would play "I, Swear-All 4 One" with the top down through the tape player.

After driving almost an hour to riverside with "chocolate face" and "Paul walker black shirt", we arrive at the previous owners house.  We wait outside for almost an hour and he finally comes out and pulls this bad boy out covered in dust hasnt been driven in weeks.  All we could say was "DAMN!! thats clean!"

We take him for a spin around the block and come back start negotiations and leave with my 1994 miata 

121k 

new clutch 

new top 

great condition 

The next day I take it to get washed and pick up a new Nikkor 17-55 f2.8 and obtain these images in stock form of the miata

It was stock for about a two weeks the stock ride height was ridiculous and i couldnt drive a stock car for long so we got some springs (shout out to renald valdez) and found a really cheap roll bar on clubroadster.net for $160

Week 2 

The rims were small and i came across this set of slipstreams Maricris had at her parents house and threw them on for shits and giggles 

Week 3

 

                           

Week 3

"Offset is everything"

Et +45 is a very weak offset on a miata so i threw the slips up forsale and found something slightly more aggressive on the miata 

XXR 513 15x7 +15 

not crazy but sat a whole lot better 

One of my favorite mods to do on any car i own is to purchase OEM lips for my cars so i grabbed this cracked lip of craigslist, nothing some zipties couldnt fix =) 

Fitment is good and all but with stock fenders you cant really get anywhere so i hit up Albert @ AWDFitted (AWDFITTED.blogspot.com) and he rolled my fenders so perfectly if your in the southern cali area hit my boy albert up hes great!! 

Week 4

Racelands finally came back in stock so I ordered them right when i got home got them installed and slammed the car to the ground! 

(shout out to Mark Innocentes and King of Thailand) 

Week 6

After a few weeks i was finally able to sell those damn wheels! I really enjoyed the stepped lip but was not a fan of the faces...

I was able to get a set of Axis OG in great condition 

Week 8

and this is how the car sits today 

-Low to the earth

-Blown Shocks

-And happy to be alive

I really enjoy this car and sometimes i wonder if sean is thinking "what the hell happened to me, one day i was sitting in my garage enjoying my time off...now im all dressed up and getting driven all day" 

This is only the beggining i never modified a car this fast and cant wait to see what the future holds for this car so the skys the limit! 

bonus clip how i get up steep drive ways