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Owner: Brandon Rampersad Car: 2002 Nissan y11 Ad Wagon Engine: QG15DE(T) Power: 150hp x 153tq*lb @ 8psi Boost | Build Time: 6 months. MODS: Extractor type turbo manifold made with stainless steel, stock internals, T25 Garrett Ball Bearing turbo, FMIC, External Turbosmart 38mm wastegate, Type1 Turbosmart BOV, Dual Core Brass radiator, 310cc QR20 Injectors, Evo X fuel pump, FPR, ECU Master DET3 piggy back management, QG18 Gearbox, Exedy Clutch & Pressure Plate, Modified Suspension, Megan Racing top mount strut bar, Dunlop 205/40/R17 Overall Build: Brandon Rampersad 377-1802 Build Assist: Pooh’s Auto Breaking Traction 461-4968 Fabrication & Piping: M&S Muffler Service 656-3614 Performance Parts: Blue Coral Racing 717-4641 Tuning: R-tune Precision Tuning (Ryan 689-5226) Mechanical: Shah’s Auto Garage 792-7584/ 789-7434 Final detailing & Touch ups: SKR Automotive 655-2873 Paint & Suspension: Suspex Auto Andy 399-5813 (Paint) / Wesley 650-2694 (Susp. Hydrodipping: Liquidel Hydrographics Dylan 747-8158 Tyres: Tyre Jungle- Narine 761-7609 Rims: Fitment Joe 795-9843 Upholstery: Wayne 710-3666
Special Thanks to: my parents for encouraging me to do welding at NESC, Ameer, Shaun, Conry & Shiva with the drift prickup
The Nissan AD
is used for two things; pulling bull (working taxi just in case you were wondering) and toting ting to the market. Not to be confused with the Wingroad; more so the Wingroad Aero Sport Limited blessed with the SR20VE VVL; the normal, regular, boring as eff cousin to the B15 with the bench seat in the back meant for torture and anguish AD is NOT MEANT for fun times and black top devastation. So imagine our surprise when we stumbled across this project put together by Brandon Rampersad. The thing blew our collective minds with confusion and had us asking - Whyyyyyy? Stirred into the car life as a yute, Brandon was always hanging around his uncle at SUSPEX and seeing Dirty Projects shining under sideways smoke all over the place only flamed the vehicle love intensity. As you can well imagine with Team Dirty glowing in one of the right of passage cars if you’re from south - an A31/ C33 under RB he wanted one as well. However; that wasn’t to be because after getting the plastic, his dad more or less told him to take over the AD which up to that point was the family go getter. Using it to go to NESC where he was studying piping & fitment, the bone stock Y11 with 109hp x 105lb*tq at the crank got it’s first rounds of small upgrades a few months in with 4-2-1 extractors he built himself as well as a 2.5in exhaust. Based on SixthSpeed science we are 100% sure that those mods did nothing really to beef up the bullwuk on an already dead engine; BUT, it did give him the opportunity to practice his welding, get his hand dirty and put the theoreticals he learnt in school into practice. Working on weekends with his uncle Andy, the next round of changes involved scrapping the car to flashover; sending the seats to upholster by Wayne, woodgrain dipping of trim pieces by Liquidel Hydrographics and lastly the drop which was done by another uncle; Wesley, who also worked at SUSPEX. After attending a show or 2 and getting some all eyes on me Brandon felt hollow. It wasn’t enough he was able to shine, grind, pump and thump - he wanted moar. Thus the call for speed began whispering and was outright shouting after going to some shows and seeing level SR & RB in everything. Thinking hard, he wanted the pace; but, he also wanted to come different; he wanted to do something that people didn’t see often; something that would ketch people eye - but what? Then the thought dawned like dishwashing liquid - why not turbo the QG.