I am now over 2,000 miles on my 2nd VH motor, and pan setup, and there are NO OIL ISSUES WITH A FRONT SUMP. Not yelling, just want it to be known. If the engine is in great shape(NO SLUDGE) and holds enough oil, no issues. I took her out drifting this holiday weekend, and not a single issue, except trying to control it without p/s.

Glad to see the progress. Nice work, and nothign wrong with painting the bay outside. Looks good.

Can we stop using seatbelts to hold VH's. One day someone is going ot get hurt. I dont want youngins to see it done here and copy with a weak belt, or just fate.

There are so many places to hook a chain too, I use a leveler. trying to be helpful.

Craig

I gotta tell you whats been going on with the cars man so PM me and ill fill you in.

First video, running rough

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZ_yFWPzDk

A little better after tune up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP2_O4YoBnc

Modified by gs14racer at 9:05 PM 9/6/2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A36lbAAfRsE

The alternator belt isnt here yet as the size i needed was a special order but the ps one is fine and tensioned.

Pics

Exchanged my steel driveshaft with mazworx for an aluminum one

Got some fittings and hoses for the crank evac and powersteering cooler

Some misc brackets and pulleys from powder coating ( matte black )

Got the valve covers too, done in wrinkle black this time, red is getting played out

Got some more toys in today

Griffin radiator, stainless 3 inch x pipe

Got home pretty late from work so couldnt do much

Got the preliminary cutting and flanges welded on the xpipe. Got to go pick up my mufflers and the rest of the mandrel bends i need to finish this tommorow.

Here it is installed on the car.

As you can see there is no illusion of grond clearance here, my car is pretty low ( as low as the tein coilovers will go) and i have about 3 and some change inches of ground clearance. It should be fine as the other one hung about as low and only became an issue on some speed bumps and going on and off the trailer. Besides it aint any lower than the headers

Dual 3 inch exhaust, xpipe, dual magnaflow mufflers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78SII82ZYMg

I've still got some other things that need to be done like the exhaust after the turbo. Right now, it has some stainless steel flex tubing for the center part of the exhaust. It works but clearance is an issue so I need to look at some oval tubing.

The car is out of the picture at the moment. Last time I drove it was about a month ago. I've got it parked at my Mom's place in Atlanta.

So as a result of killing time , im building a new harness for the engine, getting rid of all the stuff im not using and tucking it away for less visibility.

Example coil pack harness before

After

Still a work in progress hope to have the car drving soon.

Aww.... c'mon. If it can be done in an S30 it can be done in an S13/S14... :-)
Oil sump is key.

- Albert Einstein

before

Moved the ignitors to the inside of the car, and finish both coil pack harnesses.

and here is the main engine harness

The tags are where i have to add another plug

Got a fan for my radiator, its a ford taurus dual speed fan, alot of mustang guys use them , and from just turning it on attached to my radiator it has twice as much air flow than the dual flexalites i had before. Plus it has a built in shroud and with a little trim it fit my rad perfectly, except for an inch or so that hung below the rad, which ill fix with a peice of aluminum.

Also made the braided hose for the catch can (which im fabbing up later this week) and installed the wiring, plus i was able to get the brake booster back on as well.

I love the fact that you can hardly see any wiring on this engine, and its all there

Lastly made the mounts for the radiator to sit on and got it in the car, im almost there lol.

The engine bay looks very nice. Are you going to put the ornamental covers back on the valve covers?

FWIW, my Taurus fan pulls about 60A on startup and runs at 30A on high, 15A on low.

71' 240Z L28ET 417 rwhp
73' 240Z 7MGTE 533rwhp/553rwtq

Undercoated the both wheel wells

Made my own high pressure steel braided ps hose, and did the nylon braid for the return to the power steering cooler. They run real close to the headers so i put the heat sleeving over them.

Ballerific alluminum drive shaft

Here you can see where i put the fuel filter, the engine bay was too cluttered so i put it on the bottom of the car, the zip ties where just temporary, its all clamped in place now

Here you can see the power steering cooler, hopefully it wont boil over any more

Also got the expansion tank mounted , its at the highest point so i should have no air bubble problem since the radiator is lower than the water outlet

Also got rid of the origin sides and rears and bought another set of jdm zenki sides and valences, much better imo.

Thats it for now maybe ill get some dyno vids in a week or two then its off to paint.