I'm interested more than just a clean - after a professional polish up for a bay that's never seen polish in its life. There are more than a few paint grazes, one surface rust spot where some fuel has eaten the paint, and like I said acres upon acres of caked on dirt in places which simply can't be reached. I'm also interested in doing this while the engine is out of the car. Also, anybody doing it must be in a bikini.
parts parts parts! Work is continuing on the bay, I haven't completed the section (near brake reservoir) that I'm working on yet so I'll put up photos of that when I'm done. In the meantime, more parts! $432 of UAS X-pipe resonator UAS one piece braided clutch line New heater core, most adorable part ever. Not keen to do the replacement... Most importantly, my new VeilSide gauge set just in from Japan I got the oil pressure and oil temperature gauges in a bid, second hand and pretty cheap too. The boost gauge is brand new, arrived in box with instructions. and boy are they pretty. -A
this build is so different from others it's refreshing. gonna be a car full or rare gadgets and parts
thank you! that's the plan, yea! it's too bad shopping lists are out of fashion, the one down the side of this car would be quite impressive... super mega important update! Martin (newz) came over and amongst other things, we REMOVED ALL STICKERS FROM THE BAY (yes this is for you ross) -A
okay, more progress! I've moved forward onto the driver's side rear corner of the bay, housing electrics and the clutch/brake booster. I'm keeping all my boosters (though deleting the secondary clutch vacuum tank) and mounting all the electrics there inside the fender. The components consist of the relay box, windscreen wiper wiring, windscreen wiper speed control box, OEM boost gauge pressure sensor and accessory power cable. The loom for it all comes in through the wheel well. When you unbolt everything and pull it back into the wheel well, you get this: So then I stripped all the OEM tape and conduit off and worked out how to re-mount it all in the fender. I ended up with this: Which I'll now simplify, haha. The relay box was relocated to where the driver's side AIV used to be, using OEM mounting points and a cheap bracket cut from some Bunnings metal. This probably isn't the final location, as at the moment it's fouling (just just just) on the wheel. This was a real bitch with the fender brace in place. Here's the boost gauge sensor and wiper speed controller. Windscreen speed control box in teal, sensor in red: No cutting/extending for any of this. Just undoing, rerouting, and re-wrapping. The vacuum hose comes up just the same as the wiring. The wiring for the wiper motor normally enters the engine bay just in front of the motor itself, crossing over to the loom over in the corner of the bay. I ran it instead underneath the driver's side windscreen cowl, out the cowl drainage vent and plugged it back in inside the fender. While I was there, I ran the windscreen spray nozzle water hose through the same way. Below, the wire circled in teal is the wiper motor loom. Washer hose in red, teal box is where the loom previously entered the bay. Just managed to fit the loom around the fender brace! And here's how the washer line comes up now. Didn't need extending, not visible with the hood down and still works perfectly! Due to popular demand, Newz and I bodged up a bracket for my fuse box and PTU. It suspends the box in the same place, but very securely. Access is great! Lastly, this is the bin I've been using throughout the tuck. Everything there is just crap removed from my bay... Still to come on this section is relocating the brake fluid level sensor plug and accessory power cable wire. This is where I got to before needing to get the car mobile. -A
I thought you were joking when you first put the fusebox suspended in mid air with cable ties. thats looks so backyard . why can't you attach it Against the rail ? http://www.aus300zx.com/forum/showthread.php?t=294847&highlight=fuse+relocation
That position fouls on the BOV. I'll be pulling that bracket off in a few days for a trim and paint so it won't be so pov spec. Not to mention, much more accessible than on the rail.
Oh man, so much. Just home from Emile's, the zed's still there. Engine bay's finished with all fluids in, stuff bled etc, still on stands for the last of the lockout bar before exhaust goes back on. Then fluid in gear box, bonnet on, done. Was there yesterday too, 'til this time.
nice one. So an estimate of time is: Saturday - 8 hours Sunday - 8 hours Monday - 8 hours Tuesday - 1 hour Look about right? Just a reference for any speedy weekend pulls i try to plan So 3 full days in and out.
Oh man that's pretty optimistic. More like Saturday 12 hours, Sunday 12 hours, Monday 8, Tuesday 5, Wednesday... we'll find out. That's with a number of competent people. Takes into account removing HICAS though.
What he said. And last night, I think we started about 7ish, finished up close to 2am I think? So add 7 hours, heh. MoulaZX
tidying up at least it's cheaper than paying for a shop to do it right emile? Few more tuck tweaks. Finalised my relay box location: Also got a set of hard pipes from a certain awesome member for free Here's a quick snap with my new strut brace. Got an annoying accidental blue thing going at the moment... that'll be going. -A
oh man, so much news! a lot to update. SO. milestone achieved. Weekend before last saw me parking up at Emile's (MoulaZX) for my awaited engine pull. We organised to this a while ago, which meant I was able to order in a pair of new turbos. Without Emile's offer to host the pull, it wouldn't have been an option for me to replace my stockies. so i'm happy I can't thank him enough. The "weekend pull" plan turned into a 5 day headache, resulting in Emile giving giving up even more of his time (and venting a bit of anger, unsurprisingly) to help me out. I've had my new turbos a while, and the reason we didn't get to it earlier on is because Emile just doesn't have the time with his new job - so for him to give up five days to help me out was just awesome. His father Sami, who uses the space to work professionally from home as a mechanic, was especially graceful in letting me use their place. The car wouldn't be what it is without them. Thank you Emile. So! The to do list was: ____- Z1 GT 525 twin turbo kit, ________- Braided turbo oil feed lines ________- Silicon oil return hoses ________- New turbo gaskets throughout ____- Complete HICAS delete, ________- NA power steering pump ________- NA power steering reservoir ________- New OEM NA power steering belt ________- Rear lockout bar ________- Lines and solenoid removed from bay ____- Fresh fluids, ________- Engine ________- Gearbox ________- Clutch ________- Power Steering ________- Radiator ____- UAS one-piece braided clutch line ____- Silicon power steering hoses ____- Silicon radiator hoses while I'm there The turbos are high flows, "disco potato" cores in bored out OEM manual housings. I went with this as I'm not chasing big power - a drivable, early boosting package. I would be happy with a solid 250 kw from stockies, but I went with these because daily driving with 23 year old turbos just didn't sound good to me. Cost effective as well, at $1.8k and no need for new exhaust manifolds. So on with the show! I rocked up at about 10 AM Saturday. After various jokes about it being a pain to get my car on stands due to the ride height, we pulled the thing apart and got the engine out in four hours. I've never done this before so it was a really good learning experience. The parts pile just grew and grew We had to pull the plenum because my wiring loom runs underneath it. Nemanja, Zac and his girl Cindy, Ziggy and Arvin came by around the middle of the day, just about time the motor was coming out. Emile worked his magic underneath, and out it came. AND THEN THERE WAS A BIG HOLE IN MY CAR and here we are. only one leak on the whole motor, coming from the driver's side turbo oil return hose which I knew was gone and had a replacement for. OEM turbo off. Remarkably, my original turbos were in excellent condition. No shaft play, leaks, and blow no smoke. pretty nifty. And here're some of the high flows... holding brand new turbochargers makes car guys happy while Emile busted his moves on the motor, I went apeshit with rags and degreaser in my engine bay. Bay looking its best since it was new... I applied some new insulation tape I'm trying out Emile snapped this quick vid while I was there. In his words, "In case you can't work out how he did it, he smashed the tip off and it got wedged in a way that it was just sorta sprinkling a bit out. It lasted like that for a good couple of minutes too." Eh, it worked a treat. [yt]qiq4J2RdC0I[/yt] Also put in a new CZP power steering hose, which required a ridiculous amount of trimming worked well afterwards though And unbolted the pair of HICAS lines that go from the pump down to the passenger side chassis rail at the back of the bay. How we were looking wrapping up at around midnight saturday. New power steering pump and passenger side turbo on the motor. Sunday we got the other turbo on and dropped the engine back in. Other turbo dressed and ready to go on Yes, keeping lines out of sight extends to this level... I take absolutely no credit for doing this fine work... so... then we put it back in. my custom moulded sump bam. WINNER excuse my engine pull clothes then this happened We hooked up a few plugs etc, dropped in some engine oil and first turn kicked the motor back into life so it went back together with new engine, gearbox, power steering, clutch and rad fluids this makes it all look so easy haha. Didn't get any photos of the clutch hard lines getting ripped out, but they're gone now! so unnecessary! UAS line is in and just removes so much crap! Issues... we spent like 3 hours looking for crush washers, some of which we didn't end up using. and the NA power steering pump pissed out fluid when we started it up, had a shagged o-ring on the fluid return hose. we made a gasket up, all good now. By this point, the original "weekend pull" became a "weekend and three further evenings pull". After the HICAS lockout bar being a bitch to install, an issue where I hooked up the MAP sensor hose to the wastegate actuator bridge because I'm a dopeshit and a snapped wire going to the TPS, we eventually got the car going and after a quick lap around the block to confirm all was well I drove it straight home relatively issue free. One week later and all that's gone wrong since is massive wheel wobble on the highway from not tightening up the front wheel nuts like at ALL and blowing a ****ing brand new silicon lower radiator hose AGAIN because I cable tied it to the sway bar and not the radiator shroud AGAIN So here's all the crap we removed from the car... so yeah. driven the car every day since and it feels great running on a whopping 5 PSI max 'til I get it tuned, haha. -A ps: bandwidth exceeded hur hur hur
the engine bay is coming along sweet man your putting in so much work lately. wish i had more time to do that stuff.
bay update... Thanks Grant. Coming along, looking a lot better since the HICAS delete... here's how it is now... So much better since the HICAS delete... glad that shit's gone. Due to further complaints about my fuse box relocation, I trimmed the bracket and repainted it. It works exactly the same, but looks better. Whoop de ****ing do. I'm sure someone will still find something wrong with it. Getting my new battery this weekend -A
