i would make my own short ram intake by relocating the battery and leading the intake to where the battery was....ebay can be good for exhaust...exhaust is exhaust

with simply things like this, you won't have an NA monster mayeb something like 170CHP....if you want an NA monster out of it, it'll cost you 10 grand for 280 horsepower, when with that money, you could have bought over 400 horsepower with a turbo setup. there is a 'get 200 crank NA horsepower for $1000' thread on club240.com, and possibly it traveled over here

 

Hell, for ten grand I'd put an LS1 or 6 in. Out of the box as much hp as a KA/SR-T, with far more potential. Not a big fan of the turbo, I like the smoother power delivery of NA...plus you get the V8 noise :yummy

 

yea what ^ said

 

I'm doing an NA build myself, and after that I'm thinking about getting a supercharger.

 

why build for NA if you are going supercharger anyway?

 

lol @ratix na then sc...
well personally if i were to do anything inside the engine bay of my car i would throw an LS1 in there or 6 because its lighter and the power gain is the best. turbo? why ? sr? why ? sr is alright but NOS can do the same... well if youre really set on boosting... go to ka-t.org

i really dont knw what you can do with the KA in NA function

i guess thats all i chased in my gsr; hp and mods

now i drive the s13 daily and all i want is to go sideways and i get there easily... with the 140something 16 year old horses i got !

i actually have two na mods on my car... I have an ebay underdrive pulley and the previous owner cut the bottom of the stock airbox out so its like an inverted arc airbox from stock parts hahahhaha

 

spending money on N/A KA stuff is pointless, waste of money. Boost or bust.

 

when going the N/A route it is still a challenge to get big numbers out of a 4 cyl.

 

Lol I said I was thinking about it. It peaked my interest as something I might want to do way down the road. But right know the NA build is what I want. All I need now is cams and some tuning and I reach my goal. I'm not trying to get big numbers right now, something aroung 170whp is fine for me.

 

Does anybody know of a thread that has proof (dynos and such) of a 200hp+ N/A KA? I think I saw that thread on club240 and it was just speculation.

 

i have seen sheets of a 260 na ka , ill try to find it though , honestly , i say boost the ka! but i have alot more respect for the n/a guys , they got tallent , maby not as much power , but it takes balls to do the na

 

yea, everyone's seen the "280 hp N/A KA" threads.....but they cost upwards of 15 grand to take it to that level, where if you shell that much out on a ka-t, you can obtain 400 safely, even reaching into the high 500's

 

For 15 grand plus, LS7 is the only way. 505 stock (and 28mpg!). Plus it's infinitely superior in every way to a 500-hp KA-T, I don't care what anybody says

 

:werd ... ^ what he said !

 

Almost forgot...it's NA too. :yummy

 

i'd take a 500 hp ka-t over an 800 hp ls7 in a 240sx any day

 

thats cause your young and cant appreciate or handle what torque is

 

^ dont know man

KA is heavy... but the handicap does make it fun

 

^^What are you smoking?

...and can I have some?

 

^^^yep....that's exactly what it is... you hit the nail on the head man

i dont like the lsx series because i dont like the idea of swapping the engine of a different car into a 240sx....lsx swaps make the car seem fake to me

 

alright, dont turn this into another damn LSX thread... answer the dudes question...

 

Well, if he wants to go turbo he should start in a totally different direction than if he wants to go NA, or else he'll end up scrapping stuff when the time comes to blow the engine...at least for the basics that you'd be starting with, headers and such. I suppose you could recycle the filter, and injectors are a given either way...but it's better to decide where you're going before you start.

^^Does that apply to any engine besides the USDM KA? I'm not flaming, it's a perfectly legitimate reason to not like a swap, but consistency is nice..