car porn!

Only if youre in it baby.

Devin!!

Much shorter... Actually the more I look at those couplers, the more they look like 3m painter's tape to me

Oil cooler arrived.

Boy was getting this thing installed a treat.......I'll just leave it at that.

What's your plan later on down the road?

I feel like getting rid of the fittings soon just to make the engin*** to look clean.

You mean the blue couplers? yeah, I agree 100%. I priced out black replacements at roughly 100 bucks. I'm tempted on my next order to bite the bullet...

But, there are 2 large-ish purchases left, then everything else is like 20 bucks a piece, but I need a multitude of the 20 dollar parts. Like GM sensors, random wiring, relays, etc....



The last 2 big purchases are

-Greddy RZ blow off valve (ordering from Greddy, not risking buying from anyone) $275

-Megasquirt II V3.57 (just the assembled ecu) $ 444

Then everything else is under $150 a piece. So I can accumulate that quickly. It's just dropping few hundreds of dollars each week gets costly quick. haha


My plan to get it running is: wire megasquirt starting in with the motor; Setting everything up, so all I have to do is buy the ECU at the end and plug it in, then fire it. They make a "stimulator" board that you plug in and can test the system before you plug in the ECU, I'm going to spend the 80 dollars and get that. I best be safe.

That's the immediate plan at least. But I will need to address my rear end situation (heh) at some point as well. My stock rear is BEAT, I'm trying to source a r200 clsd, but getting that bolted into the car with the proper shafts, mounts, and stubs, etc... will run me another 1500 bucks or so most likely. So I am going to keep my options open, and nurse the leaky rear (haha) along in the meantime.

And if for some miracle it does fire up, I intend on driving the car on 6 pounds of boost until I tune the bajesus out of it, which depending on how much I like the car, may be a while. I know I thought the lower compression, 3 speed automatic, heavier 280zx, that some of this stuff came off of, was a blast to drive at stock boost (6.5psi).

I'm excited to see the prospects of a free flowing, higher compression fresh version, in a 2200 pound car.

I just hope nothing bad happens between then and now. Fingers crossed

Then I can start thinking about suspension. My favorite!

This post was edited by OldAndyAndTheSea on Apr 11 2013 01:01pm

Been real busy working to put away the remaining dollars in order to get the car running again.

Today my Wideband O2 sensor came.

Innovate LC-1



I'll throw the gauge in the a pillar pod and take some more pictures once I head out to the garage.

Along with welding the bung to my downpipe...I'll probably have to drop the exhaust again for that, but meh, not like I haven't done THAT a million billion times before, when making it...


Also, I'm picking up a Mini laptop, for tuning, as well as a few more odds and ends.

Slowly truckin' along....

This post was edited by OldAndyAndTheSea on Apr 25 2013 05:28pm

moving along nicely man. cant believe how far its come since you started the thread lol

haha thanks. Yeah, the car has come pretty far from the way beginning, back when it was carbureted. I still love looking at the first pictures I took of the car, when it was blue, and gutted. To now.

And yet it still has so far to go.


UPDATE:

Wideband O2 sensor

Also opted for the digital gauge, blacked out when not powered, blue LED when on.





And currently, as I acquire the last remaining parts I need, I am labeling all of my wires, and figuring out the cleanest route when I wire the engine.







I still need to take my downpipe off one more time, now that I have measured for clearance, and weld the wideband O2 bung roughly 2.5 feet from the turbo, near the end of the downpipe. Which I have determined to be the best spot for it.

That will most likely happen tomorrow night.

Ordered and on the way:

GM intake air temp sensor with pigtail
GM CLT temp sensor with pigtail
Dell Inspirion 910 mini notebook (refurbished)
DB9 Tuning cable (and DB9->usb adapter)

more to come.