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New shop has been going really well but It's also cutting into my build time. However I'm getting better tooling and making cad files for all the parts on the conversion so I can A) recreate another much easier and B make revisions to my current design should I find some issues.These pics are actually about 2 months old but I wanted to post something at least lol.
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I've got the rear subframe almost mounted. I was in Europe for 16 days so I've only been back a week since the last update. Also I got a new shop which I'll be moving into so I can complete the project over there as my flagship build. I'll post some progress pics up later tonight.
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Little update on the build. I've starting mocking up the rear subframe and stripping the entire car back down to nothingness. Going to do new floors and tunnel, along with new wiring and modern fuse box. Hopefully I'll get the entire subframe mounted before I take off for my Euro trip this Sunday. Speaking of euro... plates came in for the 6
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Gather around folks I'm building my dream car. Some may know me here, some may not. I've been building nissans for 15 years now. My last personal build started in 2009 on this forum but I stopped documenting after 2011. I just sold my entire setup to my best friend, which I also sold my 2nd 240z too. So I'm starting to document a new chapter in my build. I tore down my black car and we are completely rebuilding my friends orange one better than ever. The original setup was amazing, never let me down. R34 NEO motor, GT35R, Tein coilovers with edfc, clsd, axles, wilwoods.... etc.
This brings us to my new build and it's current state on my rotisserie waiting to get massacred. I'll post some photos and get this ball rolling
Donor car was an ever so gracious R33 GTR Vpec, 90% of parts came from the same car. I will be grafting front and rear sub frames into my Z chassis, including the AWD system, Brembos, suspensions (tein), Axles, Diff, etc from the GTR... I've even gone ahead and gotten the GTR pedel set and Master so she should feel as GTR as possible from inside. Steering column, steering rack all modern and hydraulic (and left hand drive ) I've collected 90% of the bizarre hardware associated with the awd system too. Also will be doing GTR gauges, chassis strengthening, new wiring, wheels, so on and so forth.... My old car was quite the track beast, I intend to make this one deadlier than ever. More so I just love building so I'm doing it
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So it's been 5 years since I Posted on this build thread, the car became a monster after all this and I wish I kept posting but.... I'm rebuilding my car again. Just sold my entire drivetrain, starting from scratch.
Should I start a new build thread or continue here??? Admins let me know
We can change the title to " AWD RB26DETT 240z build (april 2016) continued on Page 11"
.... or I start a new thread
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I spaced mine 1/4 inch from the support and sealed the sides with foam door trim from pepboys/kragon/autozone to keep a good seal and not to put any pressure up against the rad at all.
Highly recommend PRC radiators, haven't had a problem in 3 years and I know a ton of guys on the RB board run them too.
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Either test on another RB or you can plug the ecu into the harness and power up the wires with a 12v battery that would normally get wired into your cars harness and see if the ecu comes to life... you can spin the CAS and see if the injectors click to see if shes good to go.
On a side not I've seen worse looking dents on ecu's that still worked fine. Before powering it up though I'd open the case up and make sure the dented part is not contacting any surfaces on the board causing shorts.
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Especially with the rear sump pan since those are hard to come by now... I would just look to make sure all associated wiring/ecu/connectors are all there.
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Sounds like you are headed in the right direction. Also a spike of 1-2 psi for a couple millisecond or so is pretty acceptable for an electronic boost controller, just nothing greater or longer than that.
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There is no way to know what duty cycle percentage will yield a certain boost number without actually testing on the car... wayyyyy to many variables to have one setup work on another car so don't listen to anyone's suggested numbers either!
But you can set it yourself pretty easily. Just dial the duty cycle to a low number like 10 and go full throttle and see what boost it hits. If you see it only gets to 5 psi turn it up another 10 and test again. Keep going to a higher number until you reach the boost you want. Also leave your gain at 10, pretty safe number so you don't get boost spikes.
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Search exhaust manifold instead of header for better results but generally speaking the 240z is pretty tight on clearance due to the shock tower location. Custom manifold is going to be your best bet.
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stop spending money on the car and get some real internet man
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have you pulled coilpacks one by one to pinpoint the problem to a specific cylinder?
At least if you can find the culprit you can swap coils/injectors from other cylinder to rule out a bad coil or injector.
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In the flesh! Click link in my sig for build thread
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click the link in my sig for the build thread... got a good amount of pics in there.
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I'm sure fines about mislabeling is what someone is thinking about when sticking a 10lb nitrous bottle in a street car.
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With 300-400whp goals down the line you might as well get it done right the first time. The cost of an intercooler really isn't that much to warrant skimping out on it. You would probably spend more money on complex piping with the smic then you would running a fmic setup with an ebay intercooler.
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front mount with greddy style intake or don't do it at all in my opinion. The engine bay layout is just too perfect not to do it this way!
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It's like shooting dice in our court system, hope I don't crap out lol
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I have some experiance with the Ref and DMV system. The short answer is, YES by going to the Ref, the Ref should have flagged the vehicle VIN number in the DMV database. This is where the registration of the car becomes in question.
If your car never went to a Ref station, I can see how the non-op line would work. Non-op the car, show court non-op status, clear ticket, go to DMV to transfer back to operational status. No Ref inspection required, because the age of the vehicle will prevent the DMV from flagging the vehicle for smog inspection.
Now by going to Ref, he flagges the VIN in the DMV database. The DMV will now require the Ref to clear the vehicle before the DMV will do anything.
In my case, an engine swap, the car was registered when I went to the Ref. He indicated the swap was not correct. He flagged the VIN number with the DMV and the DMV pulled the registation. Until I get a Ref to clear the DMV database, I am unable to register the car.
As other have said, there might be legal ways around this, incomplete/incorrect inspection by the Ref, possibly others.
what car was this for?
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so in short we may have screwed ourselves by going to the ref... either way, I'll just wait and see what happens, got too much going on in life to even worry about this. I barely drive the car and I'm honestly ready to sell it at this point anyways.
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The problem you will find is that the court system will put a hold on your registration until they get notification in some way(ref signing it off). So DMV will put the registration on hold and your current registration will be invalid as well until you jump through the hoops.
Is this from first hand experience?
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I'm getting different stories from different people so at the time being I'm just going to wait for the paperwork in the mail since I can't do much til then anyways. I've been thinking about selling it to fund some other projects I have in mind so this might just be catalyst to that. Regardless, I'll figure it out and I'm sure it will be fine.
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I do not think you can do that. The court is going to ask you to produce proof that you fixed it or put it on non-op.
At least that's how it is in my area.
But anyway why waste that kind of money? Non op as soon as you can, take to court, and your charges will be dropped in addition to not having to pay the fine. Then reregister it right after that.
Us Cali guys are a lot better off just putting a stockish looking muffler on our cars and avoiding this drama. From my experience cops normally go off the look of the muffler. If you gotta big cannon on the back it makes it easy for em.
you can't even see my muffler from behind, its tucked up, looks pretty much stock. The guy was just bored. I might give the No-op thing a try i guess and see what happens.. I'll keep you guys posted.
GTR V-spec 240z build - AWD, RB26, Twin 28RS, blood, sweat, tears & money
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Found a current pic actually, pretty much running out of space haha
also got my CNC plasma operational which is a major plus.