I made a plenum pull video!!

[kawininja91]

Hey guys not sure if you guys here have seen it yet but ive posted this on other forums.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ajnzB8p ... re=feedlik

Enjoy and mods feel free to move this to the technical articles.

[grk nickafis]

nice video man. im gunna refer to it when i pull mine. Thanks!

[grk nickafis]

what's the benefit of deleting the water lines to your plenum

[kawininja91]

To make it easier to pull the plenum in the future. There will be less lines you have to disconnect and it will be less time consuming. Same with the egr tubes if you delete the egr I would say it took me like 20min to get at those tiny 10mm bolts holding the tubes on. If that were gone it would aleviate the frustration I go through to try and get at those and save time. Also if you have the coolant lines underneith the plenum they could leak and you would have to pull again and replace them might as well just take them off and reroute it so you wont have to worry about it in the future.

[greendusk]

Awesome video. Really makes it look easy I am sitting here with my plenum next we pulled it the other week and it did not seem as easy as you video made it. I really think the Video Tut for the 300zx should be made to replace a lot of the old tut that are not missing picture and stuff.


Edit: Now we need an EGR delete tut(while the engine is in the car)

[kawininja91]

I know it made it seem easy and to be honest it is really easy. My first pull took me a few days I would say maybe 6-9hrs idk I kinda get side tracted easily and start doing other things also I didn't have the right tools so I had to make frequent tool pickups at sears, and it was usually around 1 in the morning I would start because thats when I used to get home from work. Now that I did it the first time and deleted the water lines it took 3 hrs when I made this video. Not to mention I had to stop wash my hands (didn't want to dirty my new camera) and then film then go back to work also took a little lunch break. If I really went at it and had the egr deleted also I could probably get it off in about 1-1.5 hours.

Lol at egr delete while in car. I know some guys just disconnect their egr connecter and cut the tubes so they dont go into the plenum but to actually remove it while in the engine bay.... I dont think I would wish that on my worst enemies.

[greendusk]

Lol at egr delete while in car. I know some guys just disconnect their egr connecter and cut the tubes so they dont go into the plenum but to actually remove it while in the engine bay.... I dont think I would wish that on my worst enemies.

Hmm Just cutting the pipes the seem someone rackless how that work out for them.

[kawininja91]

Not to sure but as long as you pull the electrical connection I dont think the egr will function so no exhaust gasses are put into your engine bay as long as you cut the pipes far back it probably wont look to bad with the plenum back on. Just have to order or make a block off kit to fit over the openings where the tubes used to go into.

[greendusk]

The may be something to think about later down the road. I have only had my Z for about 4 weeks now lol. Some friends have been helping me with it. (it had 3 bad injectors) The main reason we pulled the Plenum Weather and lack of being able to work in a covered place is why it is not back on. Since I am not much of a car guy I tend to have to relay on other to get "major" (more like what I think is major) stuff done.

I video on getting the plenum back on would be welcomed.

[Ace2cool]

Great video! I'll see about getting it added to the Plenum pull "How-To" article. I'm still learning the editing software, but I'll get it up ASAP.

Thanks for the contribution!

[Ace2cool]

On further inspection, looks like we've been using an outsourced link in our info threads. I'll get to making a NICO-sponsored Z32 upper plenum pull article, and your video will be included in it. Any more useful how-to's you may have, post em up, and I'll see what I can do about getting them put into tech articles!

[kawininja91]

I video on getting the plenum back on would be welcomed.

basically its the exact same thing just in reverse. Just watch the video backwards and it should give you a pretty good idea of how to do it. Basically put new gasket on plenum, seat it back down while connecting the pcv hoses. Install plenum bolts if you stil have egr put those bolts back on, put side bracket bolts back on each side, the put iacv hoses back on, then coilpacks, then its just a bunch of sensors hoses and the two grounding wires in the back, then fuel rails and balance tube. Its really not a whole lot to to do just make sure if you dont know what each of the sensors looks like or where they go that you label them I used to put a piece of tape on them and use sharpie to write what they were same with hoses. After your first pull though you should have a pretty good idea of where everything is located on the top of your engine.

On further inspection, looks like we've been using an outsourced link in our info threads. I'll get to making a NICO-sponsored Z32 upper plenum pull article, and your video will be included in it. Any more useful how-to's you may have, post em up, and I'll see what I can do about getting them put into tech articles!

Thanks and yea I was thinking of doing other how to's maybe rear subframe removal, transmission removal, coilover removal or somthing like that. I dont really have all the tools necessary but maybe in the future I could look at doing an engine pull video. Dont hold me to any of those ideas though being a full time student with a full time job sucks and I dont really have anytime besides late night and there is snow on the ground so yea...

[Ace2cool]

Something that would go well with each video would be a write-up. Would make publishing them in article form much easier.

....And if you wanna make a write up of this vid to go along with it, that would be pretty cool too!

[kawininja91]

to be honest i just used the tt.net writeup I wouldn't want to copy them but maybe I could just make a list of the different steps.

[BigTDogg (MA)]

to be honest i just used the tt.net writeup I wouldn't want to copy them but maybe I could just make a list of the different steps.

You could also credit/cite/thank the TT.net article/author in your write up. Nothing wrong with that.

[GerryO]

Left vacuum line tubes and supports intact when doing mine and also learned that the coolant line that heats the Air Regulator must be left in place in order to pull the idle speed down as the car is being driven. Otherwise the idle only drops when at a full stop with the transmission in Drive.

[EM.TT]

Left vacuum line tubes and supports intact when doing mine and also learned that the coolant line that heats the Air Regulator must be left in place in order to pull the idle speed down as the car is being driven. Otherwise the idle only drops when at a full stop with the transmission in Drive.

Is that only for auto though?

[GerryO]

Left vacuum line tubes and supports intact when doing mine and also learned that the coolant line that heats the Air Regulator must be left in place in order to pull the idle speed down as the car is being driven. Otherwise the idle only drops when at a full stop with the transmission in Drive.

Is that only for auto though?

That could be the case, as I don't know how things are programmed to operate with a Manual transmission. With an Automatic and having done a "complete" by-pass, the Air Regulator never heats up enough during normal driving. Even after driving 50+ non-stop miles, the idle is still high and until you've stopped completely for all of 15 sec or so with your foot on the brake.

[awesomekasim]

I know it made it seem easy and to be honest it is really easy. My first pull took me a few days I would say maybe 6-9hrs idk I kinda get side tracted easily and start doing other things also I didn't have the right tools so I had to make frequent tool pickups at sears, and it was usually around 1 in the morning I would start because thats when I used to get home from work. Now that I did it the first time and deleted the water lines it took 3 hrs when I made this video. Not to mention I had to stop wash my hands (didn't want to dirty my new camera) and then film then go back to work also took a little lunch break. If I really went at it and had the egr deleted also I could probably get it off in about 1-1.5 hours.

Lol at egr delete while in car. I know some guys just disconnect their egr connecter and cut the tubes so they dont go into the plenum but to actually remove it while in the engine bay.... I dont think I would wish that on my worst enemies.

EGR removal is not bad with the engine in car. I have done it before. Nice video too

[greendusk]

Any pics on how you did it.

[awesomekasim]

no pics.

-accessed manifold outlet (this was on a turbo) from under the car
-jacked up the rear of the trans about an inch (you can stretch the mount or unbolt it real quick)
-went from the top and pulled out the two long bolts (with trans jacked up, they can come out)
-did some bending and wiggling to get the pipes out