Hoffman5982's Super Awesome Driveway Swap- Finally Running

[Jagstang]

Yeah I was planning on contacting whoever I plan on buying from before so I don't have to go through this again.

I'm surprised you lasted this long, it's truly unbelievable. I would have scraped the engine fast.

[Hoffman5982]

Yeah, I feel a little insane for going this long as well. I just don't like giving up.

In the mean while, at least something went right. Excuse the sh***y cell phone pic but you get the point



I got a couple of errors but I'm sure having 2 sensors unplugged doesn't help. I do know all the fan speeds work, the 20% Fresh and 20% Defrost work, so it will be fully functioning. Tomorrow I'll look into the errors and then reloom it and put the dash back in.

I don't know if I'll do a full write up on it as I used the write up from Chuonthis(sp?) but I'll put a few pictures of the extra steps to make it fully functional at the very least.

[Hoffman5982]

New motor will ship out Monday.

This weekend I'll be finishing up on the DCC. I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to touch. I'm also installing some LED's through the misc. switches to get some matching lighting going on inside.

A buddy of mine just picked up an s13 shell that I'm helping him build as a straight drift missile(it's past the point of restoring. He's picking up an s13 sr with a spun bearing so we'll be rebuilding that. It seems my life is revolving around nothing but 240's nowadays, lol.

[homeslicej2]

These cars love to eat up our time lol. I really hope that this new motorset works our great for you bud.

[Hoffman5982]

Yeah, they do.

Motor is out. New motor is scheduled to arrive tomorrow.



Also, over the weekend I finished my DCC install and put the interior back together. Turned out to be a misunderstanding with the write up and I needed to run two of the wires directly to a certain plug. Fixed that and got code 30 so everything is perfect the it is 100% functional. I'm really happy with it.



I also finally got my gauges mounted properly and spaced properly. Need to pick up some plexiglass and tint to redo the cover:


Only issue now since I put everything back together is my intermit. wipers aren't working. I have no idea why as I didn't touch any of the wires to it. Not too worried about it at the moment though.
I ordered some LEDs to replace all of the yellowish trim lights throughout the interior to bring it all together some.

My current plan is to get the motor in tomorrow, spend all day/night cleaning it and the bay, putting it in Friday and hopefully get it fired up, if not saturday. Let's hope everything goes as smoothly as planned.

Also, I was told that the auto s14 sr's had a larger turbo. I can't find anything confirming or denying this. Anyone know?

[Hoffman5982]

Well guys, I'm happy to report that she is back on the road. Before I start, here's the very first start. Long story short, the sandwich plate for my oil pressure gauge had a bad seal and a lot of the oil shot out and covered the floor. Took it off, refilled the oil, and all was well.

http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i40/h ... V03903.mp4

Motor came in Thursday. I spent that day and the next scrubbing it down and switching everything over. Some pics:










This thing was extremely clean. A little grime but no noticeable leaks. I popped the transmission off and found this:


It was immaculate in there. Put it all in and it cranked right up. I've been driving it today and it's running perfectly. Only issue is on of the front freeze plugs that I replaced is leaking, so I need to go grab some sealant for it. I'll snap some more pics in the next few days.

I'd like to give a huge shoutout to JDM Engines Corp. They were super nice and answered all of my questions. The whole process was really easy and the motor only took 3 days to get here. The engine was packaged very well and everything looked exactly as it did in the pictures. I could not be happier and I highly recommend them.

[homeslicej2]

I really hope this new motorset works out much better for you. Seems like it's already doing so. Enjoy it!

[Hoffman5982]

Hey guys, thought I'd give a little update. Car is still running perfectly. I've put a little over 1500 miles on it, including a trip up through AL last weekend. It really is a blast to drive, and I've been averaging 27-28mpg which isn't bad either. I don't have any pictures as my camera took a poo on me so I'll leave ya'll with a cell phone pic.



I just started parting the old motor out so I'll have some money to get some new things for it. In the mean time, I need valve cover ideas. A guy in the area decided he liked my valve cover so he completely copied it. Coil cover and all. Same motor, same car. I'm flattered that he things it looks good, but I'm not really happy about it. So any ideas you have, please share. I'd love to do the old school HKS theme, but I highly doubt I could pull it off. I may consider sending it off to be hydro dipped in wood grain or something snazzy like that. Who knows.

[homeslicej2]

Eh, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but yes, I too would be a bit miffed about it. Just play with some ideas in your head and go for what you like the best.

[Razi]

How about just bare aluminum?

[Hoffman5982]

I guess that's the good thing about having a spare valve cover. I can re paint it as much as I like and not have to worry about down time.

Today I decided to start on the slow movement of tucking the harness some. I started with the CAS/MAF wiring that goes across the front. I extended the MAF wires about 6" and sleeved it with leftover braided sleeving from the original harness. I think it looks a bit cleaner now:

[kouki munster]

Sweet, someone else that took the time to properly install the dcc in their s14! I installed mine in the middle of 08 and absolutely love it.

[Hoffman5982]

Sweet, someone else that took the time to properly install the dcc in their s14! I installed mine in the middle of 08 and absolutely love it.

Yeah, it really wasn't that big of a deal to pull the dash and run the extra 2 wires. If I didn't have ghetto-fied wiring to fix I would have had the dash back in within a few days. Still haven't figured out my heat issue, although I have given it 0 attention.


Well guys, I might be picking up a shell and building a drift missile. It will be the cheapest of the cheap.



Has a good amount of rust which give me a chance to practice. Needs a quarter window, which I will most likely put a piece of plexi glass in and sticker-bomb it. Interior is stripped, which I helped. Will come on lowering springs and a j30 VLSD. I'll be getting it from a buddy for about $150, which isn't bad. It's past the point of restoration so I won't feel bad love tapping everything in site. Plans are to throw a KA in and later do a cheap T25 setup. I slid the s14 today in an big, dirt covered lot and had an absolute blast, but I really don't want to abuse this car like that.

[kouki munster]

Just out of curiosity how did you do the electrical side of the install? Did you cut and splice the dcc plugs onto your factory dash harness, or did you separate the wires for the dcc out of a slivia dash harness to make a separate dcc sub harness? The reason I ask is because I've never seen it working 100% (issues other than the recir. door motor) when the dcc plugs are spliced onto the factory harness, and I'm just curious if anyone has taken the time to work out the bugs with that method.(I still much prefer making a dcc sub harness out of the silvia dash harness)

[krash]

Nice dude! glad it finally worked out.

I bet that SR scarred you for life though. Do you still listen and freak out when you here little noises here and there?

[Hoffman5982]

Just out of curiosity how did you do the electrical side of the install? Did you cut and splice the dcc plugs onto your factory dash harness, or did you separate the wires for the dcc out of a slivia dash harness to make a separate dcc sub harness? The reason I ask is because I've never seen it working 100% (issues other than the recir. door motor) when the dcc plugs are spliced onto the factory harness, and I'm just curious if anyone has taken the time to work out the bugs with that method.(I still much prefer making a dcc sub harness out of the silvia dash harness)

I just cut the plugs off and wired on the DCC plugs and ran a few wires to the Mode Door and what not. As far is issues, I get no errors on screen 3. On screen 2 I still get a ambient temp sensor error. I have 3 more from 3 different Nissan's but I have to re-solder the plugs for each one and I haven't had the motivation to do that. I don't think my heat issue is related to the wiring, or atleast I hope not.

Nice dude! glad it finally worked out.

I bet that SR scarred you for life though. Do you still listen and freak out when you here little noises here and there?

Holy hell, you have no idea. Almost every time I pull into the garage I pop the hood, and then realize that I did it after I've gotten out. Any time I have another car pull beside me that has some strange noise I immediately think something is wrong with mine. I'm slowly getting over it though. I've actually been able to go the entire trip to class without turning down the volume.

[Hoffman5982]

Thought I'd post some pics. The dirt pics were taken with a DSLR, but for some reason the quality upon upload is sh**. Also, my camera is sh** so the garage pics look ghey. Whatever.












It's was at a big open lot covered with dirt. I slid around for about 20 minutes and had a blast. Still don't plan on actually drifting this car though. The shell fell through. I decided to go in half with a friend on a better platform.

It's a 91 hatch. Came with a DOHC with a hacked harness(fun), but we got it to fir up today. Car has no carpet and a fu**ed dash, but has the Godspeed arm kit and some lowering springs, which we will be swapping out for the Tein coilovers on the coupe. I'm actually pretty excited for this build. Should be a lot of fun building something that isn't my only vehicle and not caring what happens with it.

[amolao]

I'm very happy for you and always look at the bright side, by now you can take an sr20 apart with eyes closed....

This is definitely the way to go, source an N/A or auto SR to increases your chances of ending with a strong and solid engine most of the time.

[Hoffman5982]

I'm very happy for you and always look at the bright side, by now you can take an sr20 apart with eyes closed....

This is definitely the way to go, source an N/A or auto SR to increases your chances of ending with a strong and solid engine most of the time.

Yeah, I had the old motor completely disassembled in no time. I guess it's good that I'm more than prepared in the future if this motor ever starts acting up. And yeah, I'm very happy that I bought this auto motor. They seem to be popping up more and more lately.

How's your car? Have you done any upgrades or are you leaving it alone? Yours is still the only autech motor I have ever seen.

[Razi]

Glad it runs good man.
Photobucket kills the picture quality when you upload, look into uploading on Flickr or something.

[Hoffman5982]

Really? I didn't know that. Honestly, the quality was sh** before upload. The DSLR used belonged to a friend. It's a little older and their computer messed up and they lost the drivers for it and you have to have them to get pictures off. To get around it I put the card into a Sony DVDirect, put the photos onto a disc, and then uploaded them. This was the result.

[Razi]

Dunno if you checked but if you're lucky you might be able to find some drivers online.

What are you gonna do with the s13?

[Hoffman5982]

Yeah I tried, but there's only drivers up to XP. I mean, I worked at BestBuy, so if I couldn't find them, no one can...
But yeah, I have XP mode on my desktop so I'm just going to install the drivers and grab their camera next time I'm over.

As for the s13, it's a drift missile so the cheapest route. Tomorrow I'll be grabbing a j30 5 lug setup and only installing the front with the j30 brakes. We're keeping the rear 4 lug for now as we'll have about 6 sets of drift spares for it. As far as motor, exhaust cam mod and that's pretty much it for now. In the near future we're going to do a t25/t28 setup which should keep us happy for a while. We're putting the coilovers from the coupe on this week and welding the differential. I'm going to spend whatever extra time I having scrubbing it. Even though it's a missile I'd like for it to be as clean as it can.

Speaking of cleaning, I've been replacing a lot of the external hardware on the SR. On the last one I used Lowe's hardware which worked, but didn't look as good as I wanted. I've getting little 4 packs from Autozone, and they're yellow-zinc coated and look more OEM, which is what I'm going for. I decided to do the water pump hardware, and stupid me didn't think to let the car cool down so there'd be no pressure. I was doing one bolt at a time, but when I took the first one out water started leaking, so I pulled it off and re-did the seal. I was pretty amazed by how clean it was. I'm glad I took it off because I was considering ordering a new one.


I also took the time to thoroughly scrub the outside to get it cleaner than I did before putting the motor in. Only 4 of the front cover bolts have been replaced because M6 20mm are apparently hard to find. Also, that's not grime behind the crank pulley, it's shadow. I know, because it was a pain to clean.


I'll post pictures of what I get tomorrow. We're going to skip the local meet to get as much as we can installed on the s13. Also, I might be ordering something special for the s14 this week. I'll keep ya'll updated.

[homeslicej2]

I don't think I've ever seen that plastic piece that crosses over the VTC portion of the VC. I see it comes off of the intake tubing, but where does it go from there and what is it? I have an S14 FSM, but I don't have access to it right now. My early dilemmas with my KA and SR have scarred me too. I'm always freaking out about every little thing lol.

[Hoffman5982]

It's the recirculation tube for the BOV. Stock BOV is located over near the fise box I believe. Mine comes off that pipe on the cold pipe and is next to the radiator. I'll be getting it welded on the hot pipe finally soon, and the recirc tube will be gone. Kinda sad though, I kinda like it. I might keep it and cap it off. I'm weird.

[amolao]

How's your car? Have you done any upgrades or are you leaving it alone? Yours is still the only autech motor I have ever seen.

Running like a champ, daily driver and no problems whatsoever (so far). Im trying to finish my z32 brake swap, it's been a nightmare, a problem after the other...
But on the bright side, my car will be featured on the next Modified rider's special edition (MAY). Not one of the big articles but still cool .....

[S13AL]

The missile project sounds like fun.

[StryfeS13]

Nice dude! glad it finally worked out.

I bet that SR scarred you for life though. Do you still listen and freak out when you here little noises here and there?

Holy hell, you have no idea. Almost every time I pull into the garage I pop the hood, and then realize that I did it after I've gotten out. Any time I have another car pull beside me that has some strange noise I immediately think something is wrong with mine. I'm slowly getting over it though. I've actually been able to go the entire trip to class without turning down the volume.

Man I'm the same way. Every Nissan motor I've ever had makes weird valve train noises or random noises that freak me out. I blew 3 KA's in a row as well.

All this has led me away from Nissan motors...I love my car but I will never put a Nissan motor in it ever again.

Anyway, I'm glad you finally got a good running SR. Nice build!

[Hoffman5982]

Running like a champ, daily driver and no problems whatsoever (so far). Im trying to finish my z32 brake swap, it's been a nightmare, a problem after the other...
But on the bright side, my car will be featured on the next Modified rider's special edition (MAY). Not one of the big articles but still cool .....

That's awesome. I'll have to make sure to pick that article up. Luckily my brake swap came with my car so I didn't have to go through all of that, although it'd be nice to say that I did. Are you doing the full front and rear with e-brake and master cylinder?

[amolao]

I only "trying" to complete the front even though I have all the components to do front and rear, including MC and e-brake. Im leaving the rear portion for later. It at started with busting my forehead against the hood while swapping the MC, MC leaks, front caliper not locking, replaced caliper, caliper starts leaking, waiting on nismo studs due getting the wrong type with spacers,etc....ARrghhh!!!!!!