first of all, thanks to everyone who had input into my last post after i put my foot down and decided to bring waynoz off the road and do something about that damn engine... I've had a busy month stripping the whole engine bay down, and building it back up again following advice from various forum members and articles I've read online. a few new items are in the Waynoz parts list, including EVO style water temp, oil pressure, and wideband O2 gauges and a Tomei Fuel Pressure Regulator A care package arrived pretty quickly from Z1 Motorsport with all the gaskets required to put it back together, with a few parts still to come from Car Craze. basically, the engine bay was still the pearl white from the original paint job, and the engine was a mess of tired old parts and a fading gloss black plenum. 1 month later, satin black engine bay relocated fuse box to under nose panel relocated fuel lines to rear of balance pipe removal of oem fpr with a TOMEi FPR proudly taking its place gone is the fading gloss black plenum and now the engine bay has a polished chrome plenum. wires will be hidden under the plenum for the coilpacks and injectors polished Spec Z fuel filer bracket and a general tidy up of the whole bay. still maybe a week or two left in it but heres what its starting to look like now... Thanks to Bonezx for the plenum. it was looking a bit tired but comes up a trick with some chrome polish!
thats no problem.. I didnt want it to be gloss. i wanted a satin black / matt black look but i gave it one coat of clear for a bit extra protection. if it does fade it would probably look better imo. edit: but your theory on spray packs doesn't really hold up. the balance tube is spray packed and is still as glossy as the day it was painted 2 years ago. so are a few other bits and pieces that have gotten spray packed including my interior vinyl which was sprayed 5 years ago when I bought the Z and hasn't faded one bit.
Always good to see some love and care going into a Z regardless! My bay looks to busy with all the colours (which I am adjusting) so I like the way you have it kept it rather simple in that regard My only concern is the fuel pressure gauge location, as any leaks from the hose fittings will go straight down onto a hot motor and that's not ideal even though I am sure you will make sure their are no leaks at the time. (once a firey always a firey - lol). Its bad enough with the existing fuel line joints running around the plenum without adding more - but that's just my thought. It must be close to the bonnet when you close it and a front strut bar in future may be a problem with the location given the vacuum line comes out a fair way. I can see the finished job looking good when your done though! Keep up the good work ! Regards JC
Thanks JC The FPR will be fine, but I cant keep the gauge on it when the bonnet goes back down. It will just stay on long enough to adjust the FPR.
Why not find a suitable alternate location for the Gauge and run a flexible Fuel line from the Regulator to the Gauge? My FPR is mounted on an alloy bracket mounted on the LH Strut Brace tower(and tucks down beside the Plenum).:zlove:
unfortunately the holes in the fpr are on the side and top when mounted. I am planning on running an electronic fuel pressure gauge which I assume would have a sensor mount onto the fpr still... if the location of the holes was on either side and bottom of the fpr i could run the line in on one side, and the electronic sensor on the other. but see what happens.... I might move it off of the plenum yet, for safety sake as JC mentioned as well.
Almost There Not sure if most of you are really interested, but I'm almost done with all the work. I'm waiting on some heat shielded wire and extra heat shield to arrive to re wire all the coilpack connectors through to the harness with heat protected wire and run them under the plenum. figured out if I keep the fuel damper, the inlet sits at the right angle to run the fuel line through a huge gap under the balance tube.. can easily keep it clear of directly touching anything with heat but will be covered with another insulated heat shield regardless right through to the fuel filter. looking at the harness, they really went overkill with how long a lot of these connections are. even with the o2 sensors and valve timing wires, the wires coming from them sensors are a kilometer long. let alone the half a foot of wire coming out of the harness for those connectors... what i'm trying to say is, there is a lot of wire that could be culled to easily tidy things up around the back of the bay. just waiting for a few more packages...
