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Wed Oct 03, 2007 10:10 am
Thanks, man! That's just it... I always take my time, and when I am not one here, I am working on this project and taking care of my other stuff. Just a reminder to everybody... it's just me. I don't have a staff. Shak'r and I... that's it, and he's busy doing other work.
Here's some more stuff just to show you all how intense this swap is. The engine harness and the chassis harness are all inclusive... meaning that you can't just unplug the one going to the injectors, sensors and other stuff.
Take a look...
This is the part you see of the harness and are probably most familiar with...
Now look...
Scary, isn't it? I have to replace the injector plug connectors due to dry rot. Those things are what always go first on the VG30DETT. The rest of the harness is in good shape. The harness you see is going directly into MAYHEM. The 1989/1990 editions of 240SX have a general similarity shared with the Z32, as far as the harness layouts are concerned. As I mentioned earlier, I am using as much of this half cut as possible, since that was what AJ requested. That's not a bad thing, actually. As much as a person can retain of the original peripheral items, more of the performance characteristics are retained. Some will argue that, but unless one is a true electronics/wiring expert, nothing beats the original factory wiring and the layout.
As I mentioned in my last post, the Z32 was designed around the engine. Here's what that bay looks like without the engine and other peripheral itemsIt's definitely smaller than the S13 and S14 chassis engine bays.
What's this? Oh! That's the thing everybody keeps asking about... the subframe.
Ok... This looks like a blown up sh!thouse, but no fear. Bahrain is as dry as a California forest before it goes up in flames. Oh... maybe that's not something to joke about. I taking the stuff to my house tomorrow morning for cleaning.
I'm just getting everything lined up so that I can get this car on the road as fast as I can, safely and without hiccups while I am doing some renovation work at my new garage- Dale's Garage, which is opening after Eid this month.
AJ- check your mail in about 30 minutes.
As far as me beating up on some cars, I've been doing that every Thursday night. Doing it again tomorrow night. I'm doing more autocross than drift because I have found out that I'm not actually bad at it. I clocked 52 seconds twice on a very technical course we have here. Think touge but at sea level. Drifting has given me the edge where hard corners don't scare me and I gun through them trail braking all the way to the straight sections. The EVO that was there was only 1 second faster than me, and he is driving a completely gutted car, while mine is fully loaded. I figure if I stripped mine down, I could probably match him. We'll see what happens tomorrow night. Oh! The prototype is not gonna be there because the owner is too damn cheap to fix it. What a waste.