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-Tomek
After the unusually long and cold winter here in Chicago, we have finally fixed the 240 and it is back in commission. 
After the battery tipped over in the back of the trunk, the injectors were rendered useless. Replaced them with a new set of 550cc Deatschwerks injectors. Props to them on their customer service and quality products. We also installed the BRM exhaust, sounds good. Now all I have to do is recirculate the dump pipe back into the exhaust because it sounds terrible under b00st...
Here are only a few pictures and a cheap video showing off the AFRs and an in/out sound clip of the exhaust. Don't too much, the camera is ****e. Gonna whoop out the SLR for some better pictures.
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Cheers for now,
Tomek
As of October 26, 2007
Well this thread has needed a much deserved update. Unfortunately, today all I am going to be able to show in terms of pictures will be a tease. The car for the most part is up an running at 8psi. Today I had a little problem with it not turning on, but other then that it has been treating me very well.
This week was insanely hectic for me in terms of school so I was only able to pull off one picture worthy of being posted. For now it will only act as a tease in terms of the progress of the car. I hope to get some good interior shots and engine bay shots POSSIBLY today not that my work will be cut short. Well here is a pic of my car with my drunk friend sitting on it.
-Tomek
As of July 16, 2007
Repaired the head last night and started her up. Ran pretty smooth but I only ran it for about a minute because I didn't have a valve cover gasket. Going to order one today and start putting everything back together. I'm glad that the engine is back in shape and that I can resume progress on the car. Pretty pissed that it took so long though. I'm hoping by the end of this week I will be able to take it out of the garage. If i do expect a video and some more pictures. At this point I still have to hook up the MAF and the SAFC. Might need to get a new set of electric fans because the set I have are a little too big. Also need to install my short shifter. On top of all that I need to rewire all my gauges into the compartment. And then a few more miscellaneous things. I really want everything to be done before Dyno Day Chicago on Sunday August 12.
edit: autozone's guide is a little screwed up. Looked up the torque specs for the rocker arm in the FSM and got the following.
Rocker Arm Shaft Bolt......... 27 - 30 ft. lbs
-Tomek
As of July 1, 2007
We took off the valve cover today to inspect the valves and see if they were causing the 3rd and 4th cylinder problems. It turned out that the threads that these bolts go into....
are screwed up (no pun intended). So the bolts weren't holding down the valves too well (when i try to tighten the bolt it just keeps turning). Not sure what could have caused this, nonetheless, I am going to try and re thread then use a heli-coil. See how much better the engine will run. Funny that we went through all that work to figure this out and all we actually needed to do was take off the valve cover. Yet another lesson learned...
-Tomek
As of June 27, 2007
Pretty much after lots of tests the engine is not in a good enough shape to keep. The fourth cylinder is not working and also the compression is not great on the motor (150). The weird thing is that it used to be that the 3rd cylinder would not fire. Then out of nowhere one day the problem decided to move to the fourth. So the third cylinder started working but the fourth stopped. At this point the problem has stayed on the fourth. Also, the engine has a lot of miles on it so right now I'm searching for another one. The tests that I have done so far to try and diagnose the problem with the fourth cylinder not working are the following...
- 3 compression tests
- replacing the injectors
- replacing the distributor/adjusting the timing
- replacing the spark plugs
- ecu worked on a previous SOHC (without the ZIF socket which might of screwed things up)
- boost guage shows that there is no vacuum leak.
Wide band also gets a constant reading of 14.6-14.7. Some possibilities for the fourth cylinder not working are problems with the valves or a problem with the ECU because although it worked on a previous SOHC , there is a possibility that the chipping process could have screwed something up. Even if I get the engine running on 4 cylinders, it is in too bad of a shape for me to feel that it is reliable enough to be a daily driver. Maybe, after I get another engine, I will rebuild this one. For now, I am in search of a reliable SOHC.
-Tomek
As of May 23, 2007
Well I've come with a few more pictures and a bit of unfortunate news. We finally finished the project...so we thought. We tried starting the engine up and after a few cranks the car turned on but the idle was bad and would bog out. We unhooked the N60 MAF that we wired up and the engine idled well in "limp mode". Then we found out the engine is only running on 3 cylinders.
The day ended a bit tragically for me there. Today I am going to try to put the stock MAF on and possibly play with the distributor a bit and see if the MAF or ignition system is causing the 3rd cylinder not to fire. When we did a compression test on a cold motor we had 150 across the board so I am somewhat skeptical about the engine being the problem. We shall see after the tests today. Well here are the pictures...
Clocking the turbo
getting flicked off...almost
drilling the cat and dump pipe because the megan downpipe had HUGE bolts
yea it took a lot of drilling...
snorting metal shavings...
oil line from turbo to oil pan
wastegate work
using electric tape as a thread lock for the exhaust manifold...lol
fitting the BOV
a few outside and final piping shots
wiring the safc to the ecu
Thats it for the pictures, i thought i had more. What are you guy's thoughts on why the 3rd cylinder might be firing?
As of April 29, 2007
here are a few more photos i took today. We got a good amount of work done. Project seems to be coming together pretty well. But i'll be honest i never thought it would take this long.
drilling a hole for the 0 gauge
electric fans mounted. Those things were HUGE, we had to do a lot of shaving off with the sawzaw.
cutting a hole to get through the firewall
before
after
custom IC brackets made from some bigger brackets we found in the garage
dog and gnome
modifying the bumper so that the IC can fit properly
random shot with tires
mounting strut tower bracket
me getting stabbed in the chest probably because i was taking too much pictures and not doing enough work
here is the intercooler mounted with the custom brackets
rear strut tower bar mounted
and here is a more detailed picture of my coilovers with the numbers. So are these the tein hg's?
thats it for this week. I'm not gonna be able to do anymore work until 2 weeks from now because I have finals coming up for school so I have to study. But by 2 weeks we hope to have everything done. The only update that might be coming is a dumb little video that is on my other camera that i forgot to take with me.
-Tomek
As of April 28, 2007
Finished up some intercooler work and took some pictures. I also got some more goodies.
few outside shots
IC piping exhaust side
IC Piping Intake Side
Miscellaneous Shots
Battery Relocation Kit
4.0 Fahrrad Capacitor (lol)
Remote Start Kit + Turbo Timer
As of April 16, 2007
Hey everybody, weather is getting nice so the project is finally starting to take shape. So lets get this started
Well lets start off with the parts list which I am gonna have to remember off the top of my head...
- Precision Turbo T3/T4 60 compressor side .48 hotside
- WD's magical 550cc injectors
- N60 MAF
- 300zx Drilled Rotors
- Permacool Oil cooler
- Ebay Intercooler
- Apexi SAFC
- PLX Wideband
- TCSportline front/rear strut tower bars (ebay)
- Turbosmart 38mm wastegate
- Megan Racing 3" Downpipe
- Walbro 255lph fuel pump
- C's Short Throw shift kit
- JGS Turbo Exhaust Manifold
- JGS KA24E Down Pipe & WG Dump Pipe Set
- Altima Electric Radiator Fans
- KOYO Racing Aluminum Radiator
- Apexi Dual-Chamber BOV (not sure if i am gonna use it yet since I am still looking for a flange so if anyone knows where i could get one that plz tell me)
- RCA 4" and 4x6 speakers
- Infinity Basslink II
- TEIN Coilovers
shot of the engine bay while I was getting it to run smoothly in N/A
oil return bung, this actually was not too hard (according to Mike hehe, no I helped him a little)
intake side with all the EGR stuff removed
my/Mike's baby
table o' parts
close up of left side
close up of right side
some good ole work juice
oh and I'm talking about the vegetable mix....anyways
ZIF socketed and Custom Tuned (from Mike himself) EEPROM on an '89 auto 240sx ECU
my brother/sponsor fixing up the frame after we found some minor damage while taking off the bumper support, looks like it had a little accident
TEIN Coilovers that I hope you guys could tell me the model of
JGS Turbo Manifold partially mounted with 4 different bolts haha, Nissan bolts coming soon
new injectors ready to replace the old ones
quick outside shot of the car in the morning before we started playing with the intercooler stuff
we figured we dont need fancy brackets so we are gonna have the intercooler held by the greatest invention ever....zipties w00t !
mounting the turbo to help get a picture of what we were gonna do with the intercooler piping
radiator finally came in today...yay
and the last picture for today is of someone i forgot to mention up above. He is the brains of this whole project but ironically he didn't think of using the zipties to hold the intercooler. Oh well I supose I can't expect too many things from him.
last but not least is the video of the car idling N/A with the oil return line working
Well thanks for checking my thread out. Any comments/questions/criticisms are accepted. Except about the location of Brians headquarters. Unfortunatley I am under contract and am not to disclose any information of his whereabouts. Although I was allowed to show this picture Look for an update next week. Hopefully we will have the car up and running.
-Tomek
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