I am pretty new to this forum and I have not really seen where many people are running cams here. I've been reading through the threads daily. I am interested in getting an 06 when they become available. I have a FI car now and am thinking of trying to stay NA with the G35c. I was planning on doing some mods as follows:

Intake, exhaust, plenum, cams + headwork, cats, headers, ecu flash.

Will I see good gains from these type of mods on the G35c? I have a 12 second Evolution so I'm not trying to build a monster. Just comething that pulls nice through the power band and will be fun to drive when I'm not in the Evolution. Thanks for your input.

 

Intake - $50-$300 (add 1 hour labor)
exhaust - $600-$2500 (add 1 hour labor)
plenum - $200-$350 (add 1 hour labor)
cams - $1000-$1500 (add 6 hours labor)
headwork - ??? (labor depends upon extent of headwork)
cats - $500 (add 1 hour labor)
headers - $200-$1200 (add 4-8 hours of labor)
ecu flash - $600

Once you're done adding up those numbers price out a Vortech S/C or a single turbo. The FI price will be MUCH LESS and the performance will be MUCH MORE. Trust me on this one.

 

+1..

 

The thing is when you go FI you have to have a lot of these mods to go along with it as well as the price of the kit. You have to have some kinda fuel management and most likely ignition management as well. You most likely will need bigger injectors and fuel pump. Someone to tune all of this for you as well as install it. Reliablility goes down whenever you install FI on an NA car too. Exhaust is going to be a must with any FI system (which will include headers and cats I would think). So if I didn't want to go FI and went the route of cams and headwork (being valve springs and retainers) my question is do cams give the G some added power up top? I have friends with nice garages and I do most of my own work (exhaust and headers are one thing, but I would not install a FI kit on a NA car myself) so labor isn't really an issue.

 

A N/A G35 with most bolt on's will be a mid 13's car. There are 350z's running low 13's and they are identical save a couple hundred pounds. One is at a 13.1 at 107, with NO headers OR cams...but I think it may have been on slicks. Your car will pull fine without FI, and you won't be stuck with nearly as many headaches. The car will be much more balanced, as well, since you won't be adding all that weight up front.

 

That's what I was thinking. I am not new to tuning. I have been modifying cars for quite some time, so putting on bolt-ons is not going to be a problem for me.

 

The guy that ran 13.1 in a 350Z N/A . Is a freak of nature...the guy is good . A G35 is more than 200lb's heavier . Most 350Z stock have a hard time breaking 15 seconds at my track [ 800ft. above sea level ] on stock tires . Every track will be different . East and West coast tracks are normally kept up better and have better air and are at or near sea level .