N16 Almera 2.2 DCi

Hi Ed and a big welcome to NPOC  

welcome to NPOC from me, enjoy your stay

RocketMan wrote: Ere we go Shaunys always got to get the Southerners are best in......

About time I updated this.

In October I had a new exhaust made at Powerspeed in Kent. Highly recommended as their service was excellent and quality of work superb. It's turbo-back 2.5" stainless, all mandrel bent. Pulls much better at low rpm nad has meant driveability is much improved. Higher gears at lower speeds are more useable :) Performance wise it's freed up the engine and after a a trip to Surrey Rolling Road I could see I was running 138.2BHP and 213ftlb Torque.

A few cosmetic changes such as Nissan stainless kick plates and cleaned up the rust on the disk brakes and sprayed them gunmetal. I've also got my Nissan Pulsar (N16) bonnet from Australia so hoping to do the grille conversion early 2009.

Had a DPT box installed at Paramount Performance today. It's a stop gap until I get more done to the engine in the future and get a proper remap. Now the run before the box came out as 131bhp which is 7 less than at Surrey RR, so with this I'm taking all my readings with a pinch of salt really. But driving is better as it's stronger lower down, torque doesnt drop off nearly as much, and there's definite improvment in fueling past 3K I've also been told by Paramount that the power and drive should improve as this digital box learns.

I'd also like the mention that on the drive back I was doing 65mpg at 80mph in 6th

Now for the pics:

Thought I'd update with some pics after my exhaust fitting and recent meet. Exhaust is by Powerspeed in Kent.

Pics from an AOC and NPOC meet in October.










Trip to Powerspeed






Aus bonnet that I bought from a UK parts shop for £60. I have no idea how or why it ended up in the UK, but it meant I got it very cheap! I was very lucky finding it as it would have cost £300 to ship over otherwise.


Surrey RR



Paramount Performance now with DPT box

Cheers Rich