Performance mods D40 Navara

[4BYFOR]

Hey everyone, I have decided that I will take a weekend to take pictures and give instructions on all the mods I have done to my Navara. I will just give you guys an idea of what to expect when doing the mods I have done and the all round cost of things. Stay tuned guys I will have some great updates soon!

 

[Cobez]

Will keep my eye on this thread! Interested to see what you have done!

 

[Black Tonka]

Me too

 

[4BYFOR]

Ok so first up, installing a boost gauge. I purchased an Autometer boost only gauge and tee-ed into the factory boost sensor thats found after the intercooler (coolside) as per this image

You will need about 2 meters of rubber or silicon hose (which ever you prefer to use) and a 4mm tee-peice so that you can tap into that line and take it up along the battery side of the engine bay and behind the ecu where there is a hole in the firewall where all the ecu wires go through.. This job is quite hard to do but if you get a metal coat hanger from the inside above the accelerator pedal and push it through its much easier.. I then took it behind the climate control area and dropped it down to my center console

as you can see in this picture, you can mount it anywhere you like I just dont like gauges up high.. and I also used the climate control power supply to wire in the light that's in the gauge which works off ignition switch

 

[4BYFOR]

by the way I forgot to mention please make sure you zip tie everything espcially near the pedals.. More stuff comming soon! Total cost for boost gauge approx. $130 (depending on the price of the gauge) 1 hour work

 

[4BYFOR]

While I already have the picture up of my dash I would like to point out that I sprayed the interior the 2 tone effect with silver 2pac paint. I did this myself so not sure how much a panel beater would spray them for you.. It cost me about $300 in paint (plastic primer/silver paint/clear coat+hardner) but i also did my sidesteps as well..

as you can see in this pic.. Took me about 4 hours all up to remove everything and spray..

 

[Cobez]

Great write up so far mate, keep it comin!

 

[4BYFOR]

Secondly! I noticed that I was getting quite abit of black oil in my intercooler piping (hotside) and went for a catch can.. I purchased 15mm x 1meter SS braided hose and 1 catch can (from ebay) this all costed me about $100 all up..
Here are 2 pictures of it installed and you can clearly see where to tap into for the catch can..

This took me about 1 and 1/2 hours to install not alot of room in the engine bay up top but I managed to bolt it to the fuse box on the side.. I had to pull out the guts of it to get the bolt in and put it all back togeather...

 

[4BYFOR]

Now that we are talking about intercoolers, I have upgraded mine along with all the hard piping.. Now I know there are kits out there now but this little project set me back a little bit because I had to source everything myself.. I went for a bar and fin intercooler 3" inlet/outlet with 2.5" piping from turbo to intercooler then to engine. (if you want dimentions just let me know) OK so bascially, $30 each for for the silicon fittings I have about 6 on the intercooler piping then I paid around $120 for the universal 2.5" piping and $100 for the intercooler. Fitting cost me about $150 thats all the parts by a performance shop..

 

[4BYFOR]

In the pictures above you can see that I have changed the factory airbox to a K&N Apollo air filter I also took the liberty of removing the whole lot back from the turbo.. I use 2 silicon fittings one of them goes from 3" to 2.5" where it hooks up to the turbo. I purchased a air filter flange from supercheap and screwed it off to the snorkel intake

as you can see in this picture how its all connected up... I had slight modifications to adapt the factory MAF sensor back in, cut out the size of the MAF with a derma drill and put self drilling screws in with abit of locktight. (make sure you put it back in the right way lol)

 

[4BYFOR]

Stay tuned, I have BOV install, exhaust and Unichip installs left to post up but that will be later in the week, hope you guys like it so far..

 

[ourd40]

Liking the thread, good work.

 

[mgermasi]

Awesome write up. Great job mate, thanks a lot!
Nice rig

 

[4BYFOR]

cheers guys

 

[longy509]

Nice work thanks for going to the effort to help everyone out

 

[Black Tonka]

Interesting read, gives guys better idea on how to do about it and all.

 

[Tappet]

Yep, like it alot. Particularly the intercooler upgrade and plumbing. So all the piping was off the self items? Where did your source the intercooler from?

 

[Zanick]

Great work! Thought about doing my pipework and filter when I got the car but thought it would be too hard and expensive. You might make me change my mind yet. Looks great!

 

[Black Tonka]

Just a question, when you changed the piping work, did you notice the boost coming in a little bit earlier than usual? I read somewhere else, the soft piping balloons up a bit when boosting so the boost doesn't go straight into the engine immediately. Just curious.

 

[4BYFOR]

Yep, like it alot. Particularly the intercooler upgrade and plumbing. So all the piping was off the self items? Where did your source the intercooler from?

Yes it is, I bascially got almost everything online or on eBay..