Careless

This was not supposed to be a project. It was my DD for 10 days. Cheap insurance, 140 bucks with Life Insurance Coverage too. Not too bad on gas if you just coast in 5th, and it's got all the options I could need in a car, plus it's got some torquey balls to pass ppl on the highway. Found it for a good price, drove it for 10 days, and then the pilot bushing crapped out. Decided to do some small fixes here and there and then all hell (and all fasteners) broke loose from there. SOOOO yesterday I welded up my crossover pipe with some small modifications so that It could be removed without removing either of the manifolds in case it cracks or whatever. Later today is the timing belt install, and possibly rocker arms+shafts

man, I am so with you on that one. wish I had known!

You take that back!!!!

hahahahah. oh man! grand-ma at the grocery store is getting her bucket of pennies ready and signing up for a HybridZ account right now.

yay for economically sound and reliable fixes

man, i'd love to come hang out and have a lesson too, but my car is not on the road

ahaha, you should have seen the doodie that some rat must have shoved underneath the lower intake to keep warm. little leaves, a small leak from the intake tract making the pcv oil drip down into the same area. I was left with a nice "turd like" composition of mulch. I sprayed the "valley" with gold paint so i can shine a flashlight in there to see if it's leaking, and I'll be putting a mesh on the back side where the coolant return pipe goes so that it doesn't happen again.

lol well obviously it's a matter of opinion here. I think the rear bumper could use work too. i just can't stand that "bumper forward" design on any car. which is why i think the cars from 87+ had a more clean, but not necessarily nicer look.

after suffering a pilot bushing failure, a crossover pipe mishap, a manifold stud removal exercise, some mild head porting and full valve train re-lap and cleanup, and a turbo rebuild and complete (almost) engine detailing and a heck of a lot of paint, brand new bolts and fasteners from nissan, and some other tidy-up replacement garbage... she's almost back together. Drove her for 10 days and had the pilot bearing rub against the input shaft violently, and it got chewed up. I hate working on this engine while it's still in the car. If it acts up again, I'm pulling it completely. Intake seating mockup. Injector seals on order. Goes on first before intake. port almost finished. little bit of oil on the valve seat to stop oxidation heads cleaned, assembled, and resurfaced (little bit of lint from packaging towels). Intake detail. an hour a day of painting to get things right took most of the time while waiting for nissan parts.

good point with the oil vapour / detonatoin. I guess to make things simpler I am going to buy another breather and mount it atop my catch can (also filled with pot scourers I bought a thermos for 15 bucks in a 2 pack, fittings for 10 dollars, plus a drain that can be mated to a brake line flare that I can run down the side of the car with a petcock drain valve that I can just flip to the side and allow drain from the brake line exit. so around 20 bucks in total, with a free thermos to keep my Green Tea (JDM, y0!) warm. I had the oiling issue with the Z31 PCV valve never being replaced, and also pushing oil passed the seals and coking the turbo shaft seals. I had the turbo rebuilt with a 360degree thrust washer and a step/stagger gap turbine seal ring for super longevity. cost me about 480 in total, but now I have a brand new turbo and the engine is all factory so it should run great with the new head porting job and no EGR/PCV system to contaminate the system. It's amazing what kind of damage a 4 dollar emissions control device can do to a 2000 dollar + part. The PCV was SO bad that the driver side head was bronzed nicely, and the passenger side head with the PCV was covered in so much soot and oily residue that it looked like it was deep fried in peanut oil and batter with a light coat of chocolate sauce. here's a picture: far left is the cylinder closest to the PCV, If I am not mistaken.

Is it a lack of a PCV system that causes the oil buildup? I see the same problem with my VG30ET's clogged PCV and I have since removed it in favour of a catch can that uses the vaccum from the compressor inlet to pull from the valve cover, with a breather on one of the valve covers to bring fresh clean air into the crank case instead of recirculating. If this is not how it's done, can you tell us what the full solution for problem 3 is? where do these fittings go? across from eachother? or are you just making the factory provisions larger. Thanks.

so simply don't run the T5-6 until you can afford it, and get a regular T5WC or something. It's the engine you gotta worry about firstly.

No wonder you're AlwaysBroke, you've been shopping at the $0.25 joke bin too long!!! If I had a quarter for every time I've seen those words on car forums. BUT i guess my joke kinda sucked too.

DCCD controller definately in use. great touch with the segway cam. LOL

make sure that you're using NOTEPAD to save and open your files and not WORDPAD which uses rich text formatting. i.e-fancy shmancy visualization code.

woulda liked to see it in the 1200 with a new turbo mani

love the early laurels.

you know what would be cool too. if you got some resin and let it cure ontop of a spare pad to see how it turns out. might cure like a factory part!

its god forsaken front bumper that makes babies cry over the 280zx. Everything else has that 80's love that i love

I've also seen a bunch of cars that were emissions exempt, and have a stainless tube go to a bung on the exhaust to burn the oil. dirty outside, clean inside!

Use a Catch Can, and run the lines to and from the can. With Breathers you may just get oil spewing on your valve cover. And once Oil is in there, it will only run a "bit" better.

I can tell you the part numbers for whatever it is you need and you can go to nissan to get them, just like the big end bearings i posted.

squeel on boost sounds like an exhaust leak right from the turbine housing or a leaky wastegate/dump pipe.

have you tried exporting as a CSV (comma separated value) file?

try another mass air flow sensor, or do a diagnostics run using the ECU's diagnostic screw. buy a hanes manual for your car, it's pretty easy to do.