HVP014's Build thread.

[Logan76]

Same here, I just score a 2 set's of track wheel's and my car should be ready by the end of next spring begining or summer.

[redtop91]

This thread is quality!

[Logan76]

Hell's yeah its quality.

[hvp014]

i let this thread go for like what 6 days, and its allready on page 6.. whatever.. so i got more parts in and got some more work done..

new magnaflow so sexy..3 inch inlet 4 inch tip..

pressing the new control arm bushing, this picture can be wrong in so many ways..

i noticed my balljoints were F***ed so i promtly order 2 new ones..

MUCH.. better..

and my new goodies came in.. which are now painted..

i dunno

[Logan76]

Oooh Noice! did you just buy the muffler? you better be doing more than replacing your muffler...btw make shure you got that shaft all lubed up before you press it into that tight hole of the bushing.

[hvp014]

Oooh Noice! did you just buy the muffler? you better be doing more than replacing your muffler...btw make shure you got that shaft all lubed up before you press it into that tight hole of the bushing.

yea logan I'm allready running 4-2-1 headers to smashed cat to full 3 inch into the magnaflow.. so yea.. sex..

and about that shaft, all man it was so slippy and hard, i thought it'd never fit!!

and oh yea Logan=the man..

and oh yea quickie update again.. fresh from my basement..went from these boring, but grossly large calipers..

a lill sanding and a bit of primer..then GGGOOOLLDD..

[Logan76]

Yeah I am teh man! Your car is really starting to shape up, im actually quite intrested to see it 6 months from now at the next PA meet. Replacing alot of those old worn out suspension part's and making shure you have good brake's and tires are probably your most important things, im glad your doing this right and not "omg i needz teh SR POWA! in my twofourty yo! it dont matta I aint got brakes!"

[hvp014]

Update for the week.. got oil pan done, q45 brakes done ect..

and got a big snow storm friday so no school.. woot..

Oh it IS possble to remove the oil pan WITHOUT removing the engine, or dropping the cross member. U kinda have to losen both.. found a nic present in their..

everything is looking okay..

rotors drilled and installed, calipers bled. looking blinging.. oh yea to redrill the 4 lug swap is simple.. i found a tube to tightly fit the hubs and got 2 c clamps and drilled right through. I used a 1/2" drill bit and i was set. sory for the blur, my firend got grease on the lense

took the zawsall to the gay muffler..need to touch about around their but NO holes

Front of the motor done. minus valve seals and rear main..bushing done.. the rears are gonna suck..

One side done..

ps.. has anyone ever used LED bulbs in 240 tails? I was looking at these 24 Led wide angle style.. http://www.superbrightleds.com/specs/1157-x24.htmany before or after pics?

[duece.four.oh.sx]

what ever you do dont stop taking pictures

[Logan76]

Nice, shes comming along nice man, very nice, what is that in your oil pan? a peice of chain guide or something?

[zenkii]

man...rust problem sucks......

[hvp014]

Nice, shes comming along nice man, very nice, what is that in your oil pan? a peice of chain guide or something?

yea logan its that damned plastic chain guide.. im taking the rest of it off when i do the valve seals this week... that was the biggest chunk, their were little bits in the bottom of the pan also but not too much. the chain and lower sproket look ok and im prety sure everything else will be okay.. good to get that crap out of their..

other than that, I'll be back at her starting tommorow and have a nother batch of pics by friday/saturday... and oddly enough I ve broken a single bolt comming off. I only broke 1 bolt due to overtighting.. As my teacher stated, tight is tight, too tight is broke.. ahh so true..

[Atown 240]

i think i had the same chain guide fall off on my motor. It's the one on the top right of the head.

[hvp014]

yea i believe theirs one on each sde of the chain, ill get them both off to make sure it don't happen again..

I need to hurry up, my date for the body shop is right after xmas break.. what a nice present to myself... Midnight blue FTW!!!

[Atown 240]

so your not putting them back on?

[hvp014]

mid week update...

Got the valve cover off, everthing looks good. No heat scoring or anything off. Too bad thats as far i got.



got the injector plugs off, using this nifty pick. but lost 2 of them to the great abyss(aka intake manifold)

prior to removal of the fuel rail i had to disconnect these rubber lines to what appears to be part of the EGR system. The Vavle was all gummed up with carbon and the line was ripped and filled with carbon. Do i need this, what should I do? And would this cause a rough idial when cold?

i got the fuel lines off and the rail came off easy, and people who say the injectors are hard to remove, I don't know where your comming from. Mine allmost fell out, who knows.

So tommorow will be start on the valve seals. I know theirs a write up but the pics are bad so Ill be sure to takes lots of pics for that guys write up..

Take er ez guys

[the_momo]

when people refer to injectors being hard to remove, they are refering to the wonderful nissan side feed injectors. they come one the de and most newer nissan engines, except the rb26dett, that always used top feed. top feed can leak more easily that side or galley feed injectors. at least thats what you would believe when trying to rationalize why nissan would use them as you cut swear and bleed while removing them. consider yourself lucky. and the car is coming along nicely.

[karmakaze]

when people refer to injectors being hard to remove, they are refering to the wonderful nissan side feed injectors. they come one the de and most newer nissan engines, except the rb26dett, that always used top feed. top feed can leak more easily that side or galley feed injectors. at least thats what you would believe when trying to rationalize why nissan would use them as you cut swear and bleed while removing them. consider yourself lucky. and the car is coming along nicely.

they are not hard to remove you just have to know how to do it. i can remove all 4 in under a minute (assuming the fuel rail is off the engine) without straining or damaging anything.

[hvp014]

Updated for the week.. Didn't get as much done as i hoped, but what can you do? Valve Seals.. hmm

this is a supplement to the DIY SOHC Valve seal replacement found here: zerothread/203057 written by EBUD1. NOT BY ME!! IM just adding pics!! Edub I PM'ed you! (the () are what I've added) Quote, originally posted by Edub1 »

1) Position car on clean hard surface – IMPORTANT ( No pics here simple enough)

2) Remove valve cover (8 10mm bolts using a 6 inch extension.No pics!)

3) Remove rocker arm assemblies leaving cam in place(okay, 5 bolts a side with washers under each bolt. Use your 10mm with extension and break them all free.

I then spun them all lose by hand and removed them 1 by 1 laying the bolts and washers in removal order.

then carefully remove the arm assemblies and set them in a clean area and put a clean rag over them.)

4) Remove spark plug and screw in air hold tool(using a spark plug socket remove 1 plug.)

(then using a fitting off of a compression tester screw the hose into the spark plug hole.Then connect your air line, our shops max PSI is 130, so its seems perfect enough.)

Removing the rocker assemblies will close all the valves so there is no need to rotate motor. Compress cylinder to 140PSI as per FSM. 120PSI worked fine for me.

Thats as far as I got, we did not have a valve spring compressor that fit my motor. My instructor will be bringing one Monday, so until then that's paused.

Got the clutch, flywheel, pressure plate, on

Got the fuel rail assembly done, new orings, insulators.

and back to bushings,for the rear sub-frame.

My bolts looked nasty, so a good dousing in PB was in order. I work for a Nissan dealer and have done my share of altima/maxima sub-frame recalls and know never use a cheater bar on a sub-frame stud. I got a 18mm deepwheel, 6 inch extension and 12inch 1/2 ratchet and went to work. Suprisingly 3 out of 4 broke free with this method. The other one I used a torch to gingerly warm ONE side of the nut, not even glowing red just warm. The bushing was not even hot. be carefull, if using heat.(sorry for the blurry pic, only 1 i have.)



When you look at your bushing you have 2 big ones and 2 small ones, the bigger go in the rear and smaller in the fronts with the washer in between the bushing and plate.

Again sorry for the pic, it will seat the whole way in, if not it just needs some "help" in form of a pry bar and swearing. Other than that torque to specs. Same for the fronts.

So this week was okay, Looking for pant after winter break, so goal next week isto get her running. Need the transmission back in exhaust finsished, engine finished and clutch bled.. hmm busy busy.. Night

[travisn]

heres a tip that may save your life, or a bunch of time, i cant remember which...

when you go to put the rear control arm bushings in CUT THEM IN HALF, just like the front. when i did mine i put a hack saw in a vice pointing up and sawed each bushing in half. but if i were to do it again i would use one of those wooden miter boxes bc its almost impossible to keep the cut straight when doing it by hand. oh yea search for the 'slotted rear control arm' trick so you can get proper alignment specs since your lowered...

[hvp014]

heres a tip that may save your life, or a bunch of time, i cant remember which...

when you go to put the rear control arm bushings in CUT THEM IN HALF, just like the front. when i did mine i put a hack saw in a vice pointing up and sawed each bushing in half. but if i were to do it again i would use one of those wooden miter boxes bc its almost impossible to keep the cut straight when doing it by hand. oh yea search for the 'slotted rear control arm' trick so you can get proper alignment specs since your lowered...

Wait why would I cut them in half, I didn't cut the fronts. I have access to a press and thats exactly what i did, press them out and in. How would bushings be life threathing?thanks

[travisn]

the first part was a joke. and in the front the tension rod bushings are halves, maybe some others, its been awhile since i did mine... but the rears are very small and not easily compressed... if you can do it without cutting them then do it, but we messed with it for hours with a press, then a vice with a socket, and eventually just cut them in half, like the front. my rationalization was that if bushings in the front were cut then why cant the rears? its not like they have anywhere to go to (as it cutting them will allow them to fall out) it worked, and still is working.

[95silvia14]

your front calipers or on the wrong side unless the pics upside down the bleeder screw is supossed to be on the top side of the caliper not the bottom

[hvp014]

your front calipers or on the wrong side unless the pics upside down the bleeder screw is supossed to be on the top side of the caliper not the bottom

no your correct.. You can even see the "L" marking for the left side caliper when it is on the right side of the car. Problem was addressed, becuase the line holder thingy was backwards.. Good eye and thanks for letting everone know howmuch i suck lol

[95silvia14]

Just helping out bud no problem, im a body man i see all kinds of lil crap other ppl dont see

[Logan76]

Nice job so far man, I know im selling my 240, who knows what ill get next...who knows. but I will be at the next nico meet and I hope to see that monster there.

[hvp014]

wow hey guys.. im back... and never really went anywhere i just got lazy... but yea.. for the most part the 240 is done mechanically.. Body work however... lol just look and see.

Her just hanging around in the body shop^^

Bare metal everywhere..^^

Found a cheaply fibreglassed hole in the rear fender..

The pass side..^^ worst of the sides..



Driver side rear fender... dam SALT STATES!!!! this car will be summer only..

^biggest hole.. nasty...

^future patch... lol

well thats it for only 2 days of work... got a lot ahead of us tho.. I'll try to take pics everyday for you as a why of saying sorry... any who.. wish me luck!!!

EDIT: fixed images..

[Chief_Suicide]

Well, you have a lot of work ahead of you, but I think you're making good progress. I admire the project you've taken on. I hate to see cars go to the junk yard, and I hate to see them wrecked even more. Thanks for saving a 240!

[hvp014]

mid week update..

Started to get patches made and welded on...Remember these holes..?Before.. After.. Needs a lil bit more grinding..And then remember this big nasty one?Before...

After some very fancy bends and nice craftsmanship by my long time body GIRL.. you get this..

a few more hours with the body hammer and she'll be good as new!

I actually have a straight Pinch Weld!!!!!



In case I never mentioned this.. I don't do body work and tried once and sucked.. I'm having my good long time friend, who is a girl, do the majority of the body work... so yea lol

Next up is this monster of a hole.. and sadly the only actual body damage.. the rest is damned rust..

enjoy

[Chief_Suicide]

Nice pinch weld. Well, your female friend is doing a GREAT job. Looking good, and making some awesome progress. Can't wait to see some more pictures.