Forever Simone

spraying the intercooler and lower pipes satin black. Need to get the license plate brackets made too. The car finally has glass again. Everything put back together and idling and sitting at temp. I was having some idle issues at first and I knew I heard some hissing, turns out my dumb ass left the IACC hose off hahaha. DUR. I seriously need to get some black couplers, and in a dream world some black clamps. I put the hood pin studs in, brother advised not to put the latches on just yet so there aren't dull spots around them when he buffs it. Waiting on word from west covina nissan when my parts will show up so I can finish putting the trim and stuff on. And the rear window molding so I can mount my rear wing. Otherwise car is drivable, brother was blocking the front bumper with 1500 grit sand paper (color sanding) so it will be ready to buff when he grabs his buffer from the shop. Other than that, I have an exclusive photo shoot going on for the car before I let some other friends...

put the aero on for color sanding before re-assembly. looks pretty mean. cant lower the car until it's driving by itself again since we need easy jack access. In due time, in due time.

I don't feel like cross posting, go hit the violent running blog up to see video and pictures from today's event's. Here are some unpublished photo's from today's shenanigans. http://www.violentrunning.squidd.org/news/2009/10/simone-finally-gets-painted/ Cant even tell we chopped the top and swapped it. Another angle, sweet victory. My little brother Bert, and their shop's normal specialty (bikes) http://www.violentrunning.squidd.org/news/2009/10/simone-finally-gets-painted/ enjoy

penut butta jelly time.

So when I did my digital climate control swap, everything works but the godamned blower motor. I assumed the amp may have gone bad because I did all of the electrical testing from the euro FSM and everything checks out. Luckily while searching for similar issues I found a thread on nico club on how to repair the fan amp. http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread/433421-how-to-fix-your-fan-control-amplifier So I printed out the instructions after ordering the necessary parts and recommended accessories to help remove the old solder and had at it. So basically you de-solder the upper half of the circuit board and below you will have these two fellas, this diode and this big 3 prong chip. Basically if one goes bad the fan will just blow at full speed as soon as acc power is switched on. If the other goes bad the fan doesn't blow at all. Looks like thermal grease is on the black chip thing, would make sense why there is a huge heat sink on the other side right??? So luckily I had some of t...

LOL so far so good, this is without clear coat just painted today.