Got it cleaned. Drove it for a short distance for the first time in years!. Felt ok. Power steering was leaking which I will need to address. Wheels fit great.
Started mocking the exhaust up. Have some trick downpipes from @rob260 and his old system which I am modifying. Lining up the mid pipe. Stock jack works great lol. Rear section to centre. Stock driveshaft heat shield is going in the bin. Lining up the tips. (Work in progress) Knocking out the vbands. Don't have much experience TIG welding so pretty happy on these vbands.
Not much left to do. Need to run some wiring for my AFR to the link , finish the exhaust, fiddle with the alignment and chuck the interior back in. Oh and fix my power steering link. Plus run a dual intake.
Wasn't happy with the ground clearance of the exhaust, and the tips. So hacking it up I go. First mission was the dumps to the x pipe. Interesting first project for welding, especially on jack stands. 9/10 happy with result. Fitment of my pie cuts wasn't exactly perfect, but hey first time. Welding it all together. I think I have come back on my power goals slightly, so 3 inch is a bit overkill.
Few updates: Finished the exhaust. Wasn't too happy with the rear section so made some changes. Mocking it up: Also repainted the diff and did the diff bushes at some point. Right side transition. Other side All welded together! Bent some hangers from some stainless. Middle muffler is slightly crooked but you can not see from outside.
Update: Over the holidays I attacked the few last remaining issues. First was no horn. After some intial investigation I realised at some point a previous owner had purchased the wrong boss kit for the car. Instead of naturally changing it they removed the steering angle sensor and and installed the boss kit. After some ebay trawling I found one from the UK. Plus there was no actual horns fitted. New steering angle sensor fitted: Not pictured was mounting the horns. Horn now works!
Next step was replacing the fuel pump. The old one worked fine but I had changed everything else at this point and while your there. Picked up a walbro from @rob260. Installation was not straight foward. While I was there I decided to replace the rubber lines that run on the tank. Subframe out. New fuel pump with racework bulk head connectors
Pre tune work Unfortunately I had purchased some used nismo 740cc injectors. On the logs from the link I could see a much higher duty cycle than I expected. Ended up having to replace them. Modelled up a nice double din gauge holder for the AFRs Off to the dyno!
Success! Dyno was relatively uneventful. Few boost hoses I forgot to tighten came lose. Happy with the power, needs some more driver mod before any more. First drive! Very bad alignment. An 30 min drive later! We made it with no issues (minus tyre rubbing) Happy with how it currently goes. Now onto the million small projects to fix.
