TheMission

I really would like to see pics of this hood and fitment! Underside too!

I cleaned her up today... Things are moving along nicely. ZG Flares are Arriving Monday Odyssey PC680 is on it's way FG Bumpers are sanded down and ready for filler/bondo to clean them up Corbeau Seats - Driver's is on sliders and almost ready to bolt in. I need suspension, wheels, and tires... bad.

JT Autostyle has them as well, but tailored to vehicles. I wouldn't do it on anything buy a full show car though, daily driving with them is hell.

LoL - I live in Oregon, which means it rains, rains, rains, and rains some more all winter, so I've been hibernating really. I honestly haven't touched the car for about three months. I do have updates though - I've got two corbeau forzas ready to go in, just need to fabricate some mounts for them, plus got the front and rear fiberglass bumpers for it. Then it's just some paint on the hood, bumpers, and front valance, then I have to buy a couple things to get driving really: Tach and Speedo Exhaust ??? But, to be presentable, I need to buy the following - Wheels/Tires 1100 Fender Flares 250 Megan Coilovers 800 Adapter Tubes 250 Rear Spoiler 250 This weekend I'll be working on the brakes and looking at getting the interior done and seats started/fitted - I'll take some pics too. Gimme 3k and I'll speed it all right up!

It's the original dash, I just restored it... although I already have another fix to do on it... It's so delicate and crackable...

Video Proof.... No Exhaust, just the elbow down off the turbo, but runs like a champ... I found the grounding issue with the oil filter sandwich plate and the sensors. Turbo sounds nice! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B52uGE1O8gM

Well, got the dash in and wired up mostly... still missing speedo and tach, but all the other gauges are there and running. Pressed the start button and vrooom... she works. I only ran the engine for like 5 seconds, but it turned over and started! Next week is working on other things, but it's at least able to kick over and start.

I like the look... it looks really, really similar to what I've been working on. I went for the SR20DET, but the outside looks remarkably the same. What's the paint color?

Easier than that... sheet of plexi and two hole saws.... One to drill the big circle, another to make a small circle inside it.

I drilled a later pedal box in... no problem.

It's a crap-shoot for an SR20DET from Canada.... If you can buy a clip locally, DO IT. Spend the extra money to take a look at the engine at least. I haven't found a cheap online vendor which doesn't have at least a few critiques or bad experiences... especially the toronto group of shops who go by all kinds of names. Seems like with all the 240sx guys out there doing swaps with DETs, there has to be a shop at least somewhere near at worst a couple hours from you that can get a clip or has a local tie to you that can give you a better chance at a good experience and better warranty or fixing hopes... (be aware that all of their "Warranties" necessitate install by a certified mechanic at a certified shop and within 30 days of receipt, you must have it installed, running, and troubleshooted) From personal experience and if you want to clean it, do all the seals, install, and troubleshoot all those little things, 30 days is a very short period of time to make it happen To pay for that, you might as well pay more for an engine locally and do it yourself and take your time, any good shop locally generally will at least work with you if you face a fatal engine issue I'd hope. I'm quite sure you'd have a better experience than trying to work it out over the phone or email with some dude in Canada. If all else fails though - They're just engines, in the worst case scenario, you get to put new fun pieces in and learn a ton about your engine while doing it. if you're committed to SR20s anyways, you might as well learn internals so you can hit big power someday.

I'll be #1 on the FG or CF unfinished List, as I'll paint it anyways... Depends on price difference between solely FG and CF

I just drilled holes for my older stock booster on my auto to manual swap due to that reason and made an newer pedal box work... not as pretty, but you'd never notice/see there.

I sold my S2000 for this very reason. I was a cop magnet in a Modified Honda... Decided to ditch the brand and go for older cars... hopefully I'll be able to have my modern import kick with less hassle from the cops... although this thread scares me. I was pulled over within 45 minutes one night for "Loud Exhaust" in the S2K - Which was stock, and then later for "Fast Acceleration", said he heard me accelerate and it sounded like I was racing (against no one on an empty road and didn't even break 50 in a 55, as I was already paranoid after the first stop). Then, I got kicked by a drunk motorcyclist 30 minutes after that and ended up in the back of a police car going to identify the guy where the cops caught up to him. That night I decided the car needed to go. My Honda Buddy was pulled over two weeks ago twice, with the second stop within 10 minutes of the first stop - One State, One Local. He makes the mistake of driving his girl's dropped red civic after midnight... This is his girlfriends car... guess they were looking for streetracers... The car matches the profile. I'd never drive it around at night just due to the magnet it is for police.

Thanks! I'm still out a ways on what I want, but it's getting there. I make much much less that I used to when I built my other cars in the past, so I really pace myself with costs... I save a TON on labor, but all the little things and details I'm picky about add up quick. Seats/Suspension/Wheels/Tires/Bumpers/Flares/Spoiler.... I still need to finish the build aspect of it. Diff/Turbo Upgrade/Injectors/ECU to finish the list... But that's years out... I'm patient. I just keep plugging away here and there

I didn't get everything done today that I wanted to, but it's getting too hot to work on cars today... I did get the roll bar in and then just focused up on finishing little things in the engine bay. Here's some pics of the engine bay almost finished.

Essentially, yes... I took the stock gauges apart and replaced the plastic faces in them with thicker plexi I cut to the same size. I covered those plexi pieces to make them less shiney and them glued them into the stock gauge cups. Then, I just cut a hole right in the middle of my covered plexi to slide the gauges in at 52mm.... Here's a better pic from today, but the gaps look great.

Here's the gauge panel lit up... it'll need a bit of cleanup, but it turned out pretty decent!

Bad picture, but here's what they look like currently... my garage was too dark...

I have 52mm prosports and I just took out the stock gauges and took them apart. I cut out plexi in a circle in the same size as the original gauge plastic lens and then cut the gauge hole in those circles and then covered it with a somewhat matching material and glued it all together!.. I'll have pics up tonight of what my install turned out like... I'm still missing one gauge up top and just have a filler panel in. I like using the easy quick splices for wiring as they seem to work just great and are easy/quick. May not be the "Accepted" way, but it works and has lasted for me before so, I'm good to go. I can't comment on the fuel gauge, as I run an aftermarket cell with a different sender, but I think it's nothing that a good search couldn't find - Just have to figure out the ohm range of the stock sender and find a guage that reads that range. (my fuel cell is 0-90 ohm, but I'm sure the Z is different).

Got the pipes back from getting the fittings for the Valves and such welded on and from powdercoating...

double post.

Here's what my panel ended up like with the gauges in it and ready to mount on the dash... It definitely needed to be widened out on the bottom to fit for me though.

Got the wideband unit and prosport gauges in the dash... Here's a tentative lower gauge panel for now... looks decent enough to get me going I need one more prosport gauge for the dash, but they look great as well

Got the gauge panel prepped up... Just missing a fuel level gauge and wideband for this panel...