And ended up taking on 2 projects, and never fucking with those lights. LOL!
So I stopped at autozone, bought some offset wrenches (not paying attention to what size they were so they were returned.) some silicone, some nuts, stopped at home depot, picked up some primer, hammered black paint, 2 steel wool pads and a wetsand block. Above is my random box of parts I've yet to bother installing.
I dug into the valve cover first, I need to put it back on my car. I originally was going to have something crazy done like mimic'ing the exceed moat/yashio factory style valve cover. And now that I've decided to just throw an LS motor in my car because it's the cool thing to do. I decided I didn't want to waste 200 bucks to just paint something I'll never really look at and end up selling and taking a loss on. So I did what any other cheap ass person would do. I black bombed it to oem spec.
I started off by rounding the a/n weld on a tad and smoothing out the welds, why? I dunno I guess I just like to use my dremel every now and then.
washed with dish soap, scrubbed with steel wool pad
Someone left this ugly ass table behind the apts, perfect paint/drying rack LOL
I am ashamed that I have no dry clean hangars in my apt, I really need to take my nice clothes to the cleaners more instead of just washing the shit myself. Feel bad I ruined these nice white hangars lol.
First layer of primer, came out chunky for some reason. #spraycanlife
After the primer dried, wetsanded with water block and let dry
Oh yeah, decided to hammer up the exhaust manifold heat shield as well.
Still drying, I'll clean the letters off later.
I only had one abrasive bit for my dremel and it died out on the letters below. Will pick another up tomorrow for the nissan portion of things.
It's not beautiful at all, and I'm okay with that. Much less I think I failed at buying wrinkle paint *shrugs*
So while I was doing all of that on the back end of our apartment complex I brought my Garage-S hood downstairs to finally cut it up for the aerocatch pins that I measured out a few weeks ago.
I don't run an oem hood latch, and don't plan on selling this hood either.
boom, now you have to run aerocatch pins to rock the hood.
I washed the hood off and left a note on my neighbors car that I got fiberglass dust all over it and offered to wash it, I came back after making a run and the note was still there so I removed it and will just wait to be confronted LOL. It's Friday, why the fuck weren't you at work anyway!
Installed a new z32 fuel filter, figured that would be a good idea. Cheap maintenance
Please believe though that there was about 6-8oz of gas still in the other filter and I wasn't about to just "throw it away" I was trying to get every last drop back in the car.
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So after this was done, that was done, I cleaned shit up, half assed my valve cover, replaced a hose. I also had some other goodies in that box, a replacement head/exhaust manifold stud, washer, and locking nut. Only to thread the shit in and find out it's not long enough.
Godamn FR Sport, please fix your descriptions or something. *facepalm* Needless to say I never got around to checking the electrical for my brake lights (figured I'd finally hook them up, but suuuuuuuper lazy)
I then drove over to impressive wrap around 7pm to ask how much it would cost to get a clear bra done, I was greeted by someone who told me that they were almost closed while laughing (while I laughed inside)
Don't put bullshit like that on your facebook if you don't mean it.
So I ask how much for a clear bra, and a few other things and he tells me they don't do clearbra's only complete re-wraps. LOLZ that's not impressive at all, and all this HYPE I've been hearing about this place why so much discrimination towards clear bras? Needless to say our conversation ended there as I got in my car and left.
So I did a lot, but feel like I accomplished shit today. Also learned that -8 is not going to work out for my oil drain back since it's 5/8th so in the end I should've welded a -10 back there. Oh well no problem. Ordered up 1in width fire sleeving, and a -8 female to -10 male enhancer adapter. So maybe I can put this thing back on my car. Too lazy to strip valve cover and re-weld.
If you've come here then you have decided to undertake the task of wiring up an s13sr20det motor for use in a 1995-1998 240sx. This isn't the end all guide or going to go over problem free for you if it's your first time wiring up an engine. But it will get you set on the right path. - Wayne Tips before you get started on buying stuff. make sure you only use adhesive heat shrink. Just so happens a strand of h/s I bought wasn't adhesive and the solder ended up corroding causing shorts/issues. I had to cut open the whole harness and replace all of the heat shrink to be sure. Extra runs of wiring aren't really necessary to do this, you can use wires from your ka24de harness that are already color matched and the same gauge. The s13sr20det harness can have about 3-4 inches removed from it behind the firewall (in car) but don't make any cuts until you know everything works, then shorten as desired. If you break a plug/connector (use your brain a...
Introduction Hello, So you wanna install one of these. I'll try to be the voice of reason in 2022 and tell you it's probably not even worth it. 10-15 years ago, heck yeah go for it. But if you're insistent like myself, I'll give you all of the tools needed to get the job done. It's been a while since I've installed this. 12 years in fact. I've contemplated making youtube videos but to be honest I am ungodly lazy. This blog post at this point is more of a diary for me as well as a how-to because if I ever have to troubleshoot this crap again I know that I've unnecessarily over-documented this install for the final time. I will say that, I originally followed the write up here: chuonthis s14 dcc write-up I don't want to plagiarize and flat out copy the write up, but I'm going to stage the information very similarly. I have it available in PDF format and have uploaded it here in case their website ever goes down. I recommend saving that....
Just gonna do a random photodump and just chat about some things. Embedding some you tube shorts as well. I previously mentioned how I was going to upgrade to hid's and led corner lights and turn signals. But I also wanted to black everything out, light output at night shouldn't be affected. May be a bit harder to see things during the day but I'm not too worried about it. The oem stuff was already pretty hard to see during the day anyway as shown in the example below. So here is the final result of the headlight and corner light tint, I still have my old oem signal markers in. I was waiting to pick up my led ones from paint as there just was no way I was going to be able to wrap them. Going to try and retain the ability to plug in oem stuff rather than discarding the wiring for strictly led items in case I need to replace anything with off the shelf parts. This is the oem connector for the corner lights, I have my chassis harness sleeved and loomed in the engine bay and ...
