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secondtonone317’s 2000 VQ30DE A33 5thgen Nissan Maxima (Part 1)

Owner: Bishnu Dinanauth

Year: 2000
Model: Maxima
Color: Black
Transmission: 5-Speed Manual
Trim: SE

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secondtonone317’s Turbo 5thgen with VQ35DE on 3.0 Timing Dyno Numbers (343.5 WHP)

Owner: Bishnu Dinanauth

Year: 2000
Model: Maxima
Color: Black
Transmission: 5-Speed Manual
Trim: SE

Notes:

VQ35DE with 3.0 VQ30DE Timing at 5psi
343.5 WHP Untuned (No Methanol)
Tuned on AFCII and FMU

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secondtonone317’s 2000 VQ30DE Vortech Supercharged Piping Setup

Owner: Bishnu Dinanauth

Year: 2000
Model: Maxima
Color: Black
Transmission: 5-Speed Manual
Trim: SE

Ok, I started with my 5th gen kit and had to use to the 5th gen piping. This piping was nice and clean but I could not use an open air BOV since the MAF was on the uncharged side any air lost thereafter was registered as a leak and the car would stall. It was time to get creative and try to make some changes.

This setup was nice for a very dependable and worry-free boost application, I just think all that piping made the blower choke and not deliver to its full potential, mainly because of all the bends on the piping.

This is the way it is now, it is still not complete but its %85 there

My MAF is not going to stay this way. A member on here(absoundlab) is helping me out with a 3in MAF housing to make the 5th gen MAF capable of registering all the air that is going by. This pic is just the initial mock-up and not the final product, as I said before it’s only 85% done.

As for the supercharger air inlet, I used 3in piping and a 3in Fujita filter to make things work. I had to cut the part of the car where the windshield tank comes up and make the hole bigger to pass the pipe. Cutting this part of the car is not going to hurt it structurally.

3″ Piping

This is how the filter sits…..

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5thgen Nissan Maxima with VQ30DE DE-K Fuel Rail Installed on VQ35DE Engine

Credit: Bishnu Dinanauth / secondtonone317

Don’t know if this was posted before but…I used a DEK fuel rail on a 3.5 to utilize the return line. It was a cheap and easy way out for me since I did not want to go looking for another option and use what I had.

First, I shaved the tabs off my DEK rail and marked the mounting tabs, and trimmed them so the rail would drop in.

Little clearance issue with the UIM, it cleared but touched

I marked it and shaved it down a little

Then I made some brackets to apply pressure to the original tabs that do not line up with the 3.5 LIM to hold it in place.

I think I will cut where I made the red mark in the pic below and put a rubber tube there as it has on the 4th gen fuel rail to give it some more flexibility.