Just got off the phone with the guy at Courtesy Parts, everything is getting shipped tomorrow and will be at my doorstep Wednesday I cant wait!

NolimitZ32 wrote:Are you talking about the non-slotted screw clamps? the ones that have depressions in them? I guess i should use those to be safe.

The OEM ones are protected fuel hose clamps. They don't allow the drive part of the clamp to contact the hose.

Thats what I was thinking, I guess I'm gonna have to find some. I would've never though of this, good call.

dude when thats done we need to go cruising around houston........you without a hood lol

hahaa done!

NolimitZ32 wrote:Thats what I was thinking, I guess I'm gonna have to find some. I would've never though of this, good call.

They're available at Courtesy or any other Nissan dealer.



http://www.courtesyparts.com/n....html

I'll check my garage tomorrow to see how many I have, I know I have/had a bunch left over, and I could sell them for less than the $2.69 each Courtesy is charging.

You can also get generic ones at local autoparts stores, but they may not be stainless steel.

The kind of clamp you don't want to use is pictured below:



Those grooves can tear into the fuel hose when tightening, and yeah, that's bad.

Ive actually got a ton of the smooth ones, i totaly forgot, i bought a huge hose clamp kit from autozone and its got those in there. thanks man.

drop this bad boy in

lol that would produce so much HP

BigTDogg (MA) wrote:
They're available at Courtesy or any other Nissan dealer.



http://www.courtesyparts.com/n....html

I'll check my garage tomorrow to see how many I have, I know I have/had a bunch left over, and I could sell them for less than the $2.69 each Courtesy is charging.

You can also get generic ones at local autoparts stores, but they may not be stainless steel.

The kind of clamp you don't want to use is pictured below:



Those grooves can tear into the fuel hose when tightening, and yeah, that's bad.

Yeah, I learned the hard way not to use those clamps, 5:00 in the morning I'm getting ready to leave for work and the car just cranks and won't turn over. Massive fuel leak from a cut fuel hose. Culprit? The clamp.

Pieceofsand wrote:drop this bad boy in

no way man, that pumpkin charger is not for me I prefer twin-zucchinis

NolimitZ32 wrote:Ive actually got a ton of the smooth ones, i totaly forgot, i bought a huge hose clamp kit from autozone and its got those in there. thanks man.

Werd, no prob. I just hate to see ZBBQs, and you mentioned the stainless overcovers, and I know they come with the crappy worm hoses.

yeah they do, but the crappy clamps wont be getting used

UPDATE; Pulled an all-nighter with a buddy went from bare short block at 11:45 pm to well see for yourself

Very clean. Nice work.

I wish my friends wanted to work on my car with me

That's awesome though! 1 step closer man

get em involved

Update: 10:13pm Everything is ready for the drop in tomorrow so with a little help from my friends and a little from the car gods i will soon be driving my Z again.

P.S. at this point I have been up for 37 hours and am pretty damn delirious. who needs drugs when you can feel like this naturally. It s a Z high hahahahahha see I told yall I'm getting delirious.

Peace

I didnt get any work done today, I guess the gods hate me, the weather here when from a mild 65 sunny not a cloud in the sky to winds rain and about 40 degrees so I'm at a standstill, hopefully tomorrow i will be graced with some nice weather so i can drop the engine in.

UPDATE: Short and sweet. I'm dropping the pumpkin in this weekend (last weekend turned out to be a disaster and nothing got done after the all-nighter). On a tuning note, I have been talking with Jason of E-mance about getting me a base map EPROM for my car so I can fine tune from there with SAFC2 and Wide-band. Hopefully the engine makes it in the car this weekend and the chip gets here sometime next week so I can try to get it running next weekend, just in-time to take my GF on a topless cruise for her 21st B-day That is all, we now return you to your regularly scheduled programing.

Oh you're such a tease

i'm working on connecting everything right now, the fuel and all electrical on top of the motor are done, just taking a break from laying under the car. It should be ready to roll today except the EPROM that i'm waiting on, once that comes in i just gotta throw it in the ECU and start her up

I'm extremely jealous of you. I wish I was that close to finishing my car! Congrats man! Post some vids when you're done

thanks man, i will post vids as soon as I got them. This is why i decided to go ahead and run stock turbos, i couldn't wait anymore i wanted a running Z

Nice. Once you get her running the last thing is to make sure she doesn't leak anywhere

NolimitZ32 wrote:thanks man, i will post vids as soon as I got them. This is why i decided to go ahead and run stock turbos, i couldn't wait anymore i wanted a running Z

I kinda wish I would've went with stock turbos. But one of my turbos was seized so I had to buy new ones anyways so I decided to upgrade. If only I had a better paying job I'd be right where you are now lol

Pieceofsand wrote:Nice. Once you get her running the last thing is to make sure she doesn't leak anywhere

On it man.

legion wrote:
I kinda wish I would've went with stock turbos. But one of my turbos was seized so I had to buy new ones anyways so I decided to upgrade. If only I had a better paying job I'd be right where you are now lol

Dude this has been a 5 year ordeal for me so yeah i know about waiting and my job doesnt pay very well thats why its been 5 years.

UPDATE: Will post pics later, cranked the car last night to prime it and checked all the elctronics, there is a bad connection somewhere in the SAFC wiring and the ECU seems to be bad (its ok I got a backup) so tonight I will be rewiring the SAFC and soldering a socket into the second ECU, then hopefully VROOOOMMMM!

Good luck man.

Very clean. Good luck with the build