Hoffman5982's Super Awesome Driveway Swap- Finally Running

[supersayianjim]

did you find that f*** rat? and are you running spacers on those wheels??

[obg3506]

You are going to have a killer ride on campus! Park where its well lit and you can see it! Damn haters

[Hoffman5982]

lol, no I never found that rat so I can only assume its gone

and I will be bumming rides off friends as much as possible, ESPECIALLY once I get it painted. I got this car in a amazing condition. I mean miniscule scratches, and 2 small dings on the hood. The 3rd day I had it, while it was parked at school, someone walked against it or something and left a nice set of scratches down the door. People in this world suck. They have no respect for other people's hard work and it pisses me off. That's why whenever I see someone open their door into someone else's car like they could care less, I write down their license plate number and leave it on the other car so that they know who f***ed their sh** up.

and no, I am running no spacers.Once I get my toe and camber straightened out Ill see were it sits and decide if I want any at all.

I had typed an update and once again it went back and told me to login and didn't save evreything I typed. I don't know if that has to do with how they re-did this site or what? oh well, Ill retype it in a few

[Hoffman5982]

Ok, so I left off with the bay being painted. Since then a few things have gotten done, and Im getting a lot closer to the first start up!

First we'll start off with the bad:

Rule of thumb- when parking your car for an extended period of time, make sure to check and make sure you arent sitting on an ant bed. The other day I was reassembling the motor, and I went to get a wrench out of my car. When I opened the door, I see literally hundreds of ants inside. No, there was no food. I made sure before hand that there wasn't to prevent this from happening. Funny how things work huh?
So i just said "f**** it", grabbed the wrench, and closed the door. I did't take any pictures until 2 days later. There weren't as many, but you get the idea



So now that that's out of the way, let's move on.

I got the engine 90% reassembled, and then started on the clutch and whatnot.
First, I removed and replaced the rear main seal


Then I replaced the throwout bearing. Here you can see the old and new side by side


Then I picked up my resurfaced flywheel, and reinstalled that. Luckily none of the bolts broke in the process


Then I installed the Fidanza clutch


And finally, I reattached the transmission, painted it, and switched the speed sensor from the ka to the sr



Now, apparently whenever I was pulling the ka out I managed to break the part where the harness plugs into the speed sensor. There were two little matal prongs still sticking out, so I just cut the plug from the sr sensor, soldered 2 wires to the corresponding prongs, and melted the plastic of the plug to what was left of the housing on the ka harness. It's pretty, but it'll do




once that was all done, I started putting the bay back together. I'm sure you all know why.



And voila!


I still haven't painted the valve cover, Im waiting for a day with good weather. Plus, I didn't want to scratch it in the process of putting it in.

So now all that's left it:
finish wiring(almost done)
mount and wire gauges/boost controller
reconnect all the lines
run positive cable to trunk for the battery
have BOV flange welded onto fmic piping
then put everything back together!

We're getting close!

[Skyline_BNR34]

Looks good, hopefully no one decides to do anything to sch a beautiful car at campus.

I'm sorta glad my car looks like a POS so when I do get all the mods done to it I want people will still think it's a POS. hah

[Hoffman5982]

Ok Im back home now. Haven't been able to get much done today except cut holes for intercooler piping and paint my primered valve cover. I post pics of that once I clear it.

[GrilledCheese33]

Nice job hoff. Build is coming together nicely! I'm so glad i'm out of college now because of the parking situation. I used to park up in the grass in college where no one could get near it... Once my car is re-sprayed my worries will be parking far, far away at wal-mart lol.

[Hoffman5982]

Yea same here. Im thinking that I might try to find a beat up s13 for cheap so that I won't care, and then once Im done with this car and out of college and can restore it

[Hoffman5982]

Ill just leave ya'll with this:
My fail of the week



I will be redoing it when everything is done

dont mind the ic piping, I was just mocking the ic core mounting location

[Hoffman5982]

From the lack of comments, noone cares. But whatev



sorry for the crappy cell phone pic

[breadbox]

Looking pretty good. That is a nice sized Intercooler.

[badbob2121]

more pics!! looks really clean....

[Hoffman5982]

So I moved the car to make room in the driveway and get the back end out of the dirt, and found out why I had an ant problem. Both of the rear wheels were sitting on two different ant holes. Perfect placement right? Atleast I killed all the ones on the inside of the car

[Raz007]

Looks great man, kudos to you doing it all in your driveway, and taking the time to do it right. Can't wait to see video of the start up!

[zachattack_5491]

That looks like an awesome build. Looks super clean. I wish I would have taken the time to clean up my engine before dropping it in. Good luck with the rest of your build.

I saw that you have Stance LX+ coilovers, how do you like them? I really want to get a set soon but I can't find anyone else using them.

[Hoffman5982]

Looks great man, kudos to you doing it all in your driveway, and taking the time to do it right. Can't wait to see video of the start up!

Thanks!

That looks like an awesome build. Looks super clean. I wish I would have taken the time to clean up my engine before dropping it in. Good luck with the rest of your build.

I saw that you have Stance LX+ coilovers, how do you like them? I really want to get a set soon but I can't find anyone else using them.

I love them. I have tokiko blues with eibach pro springs on before and the stance's ride about as soft as those, but have a lot less body roll. If its a track car of course they aren't what you want, but if its a dd and you want to track it every once in a while they're great

[GrilledCheese33]

Everything is coming together nicely. Were you shooting for a different shade of red on the vc? When will she be running?

[Hoffman5982]

Everything is coming together nicely. Were you shooting for a different shade of red on the vc? When will she be running?

before clear, the valve cover came out the exact color I wanted. I screwed up on the clear. Im going to redo it and replace all the grommets and stuff whenever the car is up and running. Its not a huge deal and I have other things to worry about.

As far as when it'll be running, I'm shooting for friday or saturday. I've started school, but I take morning classes and Im out at around 11, and I just come home and go straight to work on this thing. So if all goes well, Ill be able to drive it sometime over the weekend.

We'll see though

[GrilledCheese33]

Gotcha. Well good luck with it and hope all goes well!

[mrgreeneyes]

excellent work sir. super clean, super attention to detail. no hackjobs or crap parts.

[Hoffman5982]

So I just had to make a tough decision.

I'm going to have to run without a/c for a few weeks.

[Lonismos14]

Hows that a hard decision im running no ac or heat . Any updates you start it yet?

[Skyline_BNR34]

Hows that a hard decision im running no ac or heat . Any updates you start it yet?

Depends on where you live, if it only gets to 80 in the Summer you don't need AC, if it gets to 100 with a 75% humidity you need it like where I live, unfortunately I don't have AC in mine and it's hot as hell.

[Hoffman5982]

Lol it was a hard decision because it is so hot around here. I can step ou the back door, and by the time Im walking down the steps there is a trickle of sweat down my back

Sorry for no updates, didn't really get a chance to work on the car today. Not much left though. My main problem is Im missing a few plugs off the harness. I think there's about three.

[PyR0NiAk]

Lol it was a hard decision because it is so hot around here. I can step ou the back door, and by the time Im walking down the steps there is a trickle of sweat down my back

Sorry for no updates, didn't really get a chance to work on the car today. Not much left though. My main problem is Im missing a few plugs off the harness. I think there's about three.

Get one of the harnesses from Wiring Specialties.. You won't regret it.

[Hoffman5982]

I would, but Im extemely low on cash, and if I did do that, Id have to go back and re sleeve everything which would be a PITA. Maybe I have them but they got misplaced. Ill figure it out though.

Once I do get it figured out, Ill have everything complete within a day

[alms24sebring]

Thats freakin sweet man. Its clean and poopin freash. Im jelous..

TEST DRIVE!!

[OM3GA]

Looking pretty swell.

[Hoffman5982]

Got a few things done today:

Replaced fuel filter with z32 filter, Reconnected the BMC and brake pedal, installed throttle cable, finished mounting the intercooler, and reconnected most of the hoses in the bay. Sorry, I only took two pictures

For anyone who wants to do this swap, but doesn't get a full front cut, the sr20 throttle has some kind of grommet thing, but the ka's doesn't. To make it work, it's simple as buying 2 nice sized washers and putting them in between the 2 adjustment bolts like so:



And here's the intercooler mounted up


If you look closely, you'll see where the two brackets on either side are mounted. This is where the problem is. They are covering the mounting holes for the headlights. " No problem, Ill just trim the headlight to fit" I thought. So I removed one of the brackets, grabbed a headlight, and went to mount it. OOPSIES, I mounted the intercooler too high. I didn't feel anywhere near comfortable with trimming that much off the headlight to make it work, so I just unbolted the core, and redrilled a hole about an inch down. Now it fits perfectly, Just need to make new brackets to secure it.

Other than that, I've just been doing the wiring. I have 2 or 3 plugs missing. I know one of them is the power steering oil pressure switch and I think the other is the Turbo Boost Pressure Solenoid(orange/black & brown wire). I found a thread, granted it was for an s13 sr, and it said they aren't needed. Can anyone shed some light on this? On the sr harness, I know the purple/white(power steering oil pressure switch) goes from the ecu out to the plug, and on the ka it goes from the ecu to the dash connector, and today I was looking at the wires that enter the bay by the BMC and there is a purple/white &black wired plug. I believe this is the same thing?

Anyways, if anyone knows, please let me know. This is really all that is holding me back from firing her up.

The time is coming you guys

[sleepersilvia92]

i can confirm those two plugs on my redtop harness are not used