Small update before i go to bed.. Just got done making this thing with Gunar.

OEM bushing on left.. Custom bushing on right. Notice how much larger it is… yeah, that flywheel spacer was MESSED up.
In action..

Also… just received clutch kit in the mail today so HOPEFULLY i can get this thing rolling soon. Dont think i’ll be able to work on it for at least a week though.. school is KILLING me right now.

Got some more stuff.. all thats holding me up now is the clutch kit and the MASS amounts of school work…

Some PS stuff from mazworx. (smiley face unintentional)
Started putting it on the car yesterday. Had to notch my tension rod bracket, but i’ll box that in later.
Trans!
A little dirty but nothing a pressure washer cant fix.
The awesome shipping company broke the reverse and neutral switches on it, but it came with a new starter and supposedly has under 40k on the trans.

Alright, MASS UPDATE.

So this summer i didn’t get squat done as i was working like crazy djing and working on the base out here along with having fun with the girlfriend.

Anyways i also moved just recently so here’s a few pictures.

Here it is in it’s new home, much bigger garage.

One thing i did before i made the move was to fix one of my frame rails…rust.
Made this snazzy little sleeve.


SO. recently i just purchased a ton of parts to get this thing moving again.

Pics of said parts.

Ended up going with a lightweight flywheel from XTD. (12.5 lbs vs. i think double that stock = WEEEEEE)
And why not throw a couple TMF shirts in there for the mix (Thanks Scott!)

Also got myself a new toy. Helped me out with re-boring my flywheel spacer also. More on that later.

There are a lot more parts in the mail that i havent received quite yet.

Mazworx power steering line conversion (yay for PS!)
ACT 6 puck unprung clutch kit
Megan Racing Tension rods
Innovative LC-1 with XD-16 gauge
and most importantly a z32 Turbo trans with less than 40k miles on it.
ECU tuned by a guy i’ve been talking with for a while about VH’s

So this flywheel spacer thing. You’ve seen pictures of it all mangled and . I was talking to my boss out on base and he hooked me up proper with a buddy of his thats got a little shop of his own.

Making sure it’s on the lathe nice and true.

Ready for destruction. Homie Darren in the background.

The result. If you’re wondering what that step is in there it’s so the bushing doesn’t fall through to the other side.

Here it is sitting on the back of that flywheel i just got. Had to make sure it fits in it haha.


Now that we bored it out it is much larger than the bore to accept the OEM pilot bearing. What to do?

MAKE ONE

Went to the machine shop here in Rapid and bought some bearing bronze. 9 something a pound. Bought plenty in case we mess up.
Outside diameter will be around 23. something mm (cant remember) But inside diameter will be bored to the OEM pilot bearing specs. Which is around .626″ or .629″ which is just under 16mm.

Plan on getting that done sometime this weekend hopefully.

Oil Pan

I’m sick and tired of bashing my oilpan on stuff around town. I’ve done it twice in less than a year…

Here’s a pic of what i’m working with.

My plan?

Shorten it and add extensions off the side with baffles/trap doors. If you guys have ANY input here at all please let me know as i have never done this but i’ve ot a rough idea on what to do…

First cut

Final cuts

As you can see this thing came stock with a windage tray already in the pan. Along with another one bolted to the underside of the block. (cool)

I’m going to try and keep that there while raising the bottom of the pan. But as you can see in the next picture i’ve also got to cut and re-weld the pickup tube in a higher location. I’m thinking about 10-15mm of clearance between the pan will be about right. (Any input here??)

You can also see where i plan to ad dthe extensions off the side..

So i bolted the cut up pan to the engine to see how everything sat…

This last picture is of it with the engine sitting in the bay so i can see how low it’s still hanging below the cross member. To me it looks to be about flush with it or it just slightly hangs below the cross member.

I’m thinking about putting some spacers in my engine mounts to raise the engine up a little bit as it will help with clearance of the pan, exhaust, and PS pump. Only issue is that its going to hit the hood more……

SO there you have it. I will probably be posting quite a bit more pictures as stuff gets done and parts come in as i REALLY want to get this thing running soon. Want to tear up the street one more time before winter fully hits! (Even though it just snowed today lol) But i’m banking on one more dry week haha.

Alright! Getting pretty close to being updated to the present. Just so you all know my car still isn’t running from this last incident BUT i’ve got all the parts to fix it. I don’t even want to think about all the money I’ve spent recently…. Anyways, get ready for a crap ton of pictures soon as I’ve done quite a bit in the past few months.

– Chase

Carnage again!

The latest catastrophe?

Broken transmission and clutch. AND flywheel spacer.

SO i was merging slowly onto the interstate in 5th gear and all of a sudden it sound like my transmission popped out of gear and made the most horrid grinding noise in the world. Long story short i towed it back to my house with my house with my room mates truck. I finally got around to tearing it apart to find out what happened.

Here are carnage pictures. (Sorry for them all being crapy cell phone pics, couldn’t find my better camera)

Engine pulled.

Clutch disc’s teeth on my ACT 6 puck unsprung completely stripped off…

This is what it SHOULD look like. (minus the busted out spring up top, was from my first RPS clutch that blew up on me)

Hard to see but transmission splines are messed too. Some actually look to be BENT

And my hacked up flywheel spacer.

The story with the spacer is that i didnt have a pilot bearing in. Basically it was something i did two summers ago. When i was putting this thing together with the original RPS clutch i had, i tried bolting the transmission up and it wouldn’t go on using the pilot bearing supplied by RPS. It wouldn’t go on all the way. Took it back apart and found the pilot bearing was hitting part of the transmission input shaft where the spline starts after the tip for the pilot bearing. So i think what happened was i took out the pilot bearing and never used it. I remember a friend telling me he never had one in his car either and it was fine. So i wasn’t TOO worried about it at the time. I think i figured the difference was that i was using an N/A z32 transmission instead of the turbo one which is what the adaptor plate setup was designed for. (i remember reading the were identical besides their clutches) Anyways thinking back on it now i was really dumb about that and in too much of a hurry and paying for it in the end. As you can see the inside of the spacer is completely hacked… and i’m not sure but no pilot bearing might have been a part of it.

Also, i check online. The part number of my ACT disc is 6240006. Which is the correct part number for my application. 90-96 300zx Non-Turbo. It also happens to be by coincidence the same part number for the 79-83 Turbo 300xz. But thats just a clarification that i wasnt using an incorrect disc..

And now i dont know about you guys but i’ve NEVER seen anything like this happening. Even daily driving it i’ve seen the metal twist apart on the clutch disc from using an unsprung but never the splines…

Pretty sure a combination of a welded diff, 1-piece driveshaft, unsprung clutch, and nearly solid engine mounts combined with it being daily driven had a part in this…

Carnage!

Was driving last friday night and was about to get on an on-ramp. Road wasnt lit well at all and was going too fast (which was like 20-30 mph, it was a 90degree turn so yeah, dont need to be going that fast to be going tooo fast). The corner i had never taken was way sharper than i thought it was and got the car a lil sideways and ended up being to fast and slammed right into an island i didnt really see. Something stupid that could have been avoided if i stuck to the rule – stay at teh track. Whatever everyone has their moment. So here are some carnage pictures.

bent

broken

torn and bent

Here is the ‘new’ oil pan. Its the one that originally came with the engine but the genius’s at the junk yard blew a hole in it with their torch when they cut the lower transmission brace. Anyways, i had to put a big metal band-aid over the hole.

I somehow managed to change the oil pan with the engine still in the car. We raised the engine up a little bit so i could drop the pan an inch or so, just barely enough to where i was able to squeeze my fingers in there and unbolt the bolts holding the pickup tube on. Thank god they were situated where i could get at them easily.

Also, if you look at the last pic closely you can see how mangled my headers are from the contact with the curb. Tubing is designed to hold exhaust gases and direct them, not stop a curb. So what does it do? deform like crazy.

Today is my birthday btw for anyone who cares. 21!

So last friday i got my injectors.

Took the old crappy ones out that i thought were fubar.

Here is a comparison between the #4 cyl. injector and the Deatschwerks Injector…

I think what happened is that the pintle cap cracked or something, causing the fuel to not be vaporized or whatever in the air properly… maybe getting on the pintle cap and burning? Causing it to melt like this? Idk, it’s weird.

vv Here’s a picture vv

But anyways. I put the two new injectors in along with new plugs on those cylinders and what do ya know, it fixes ALL of my problems. It sounds WAY different now and actually pulls like it should, It’s a beast! The smell of burning rubber is the greatest smell ever. Especially when it comes with the sound this engine makes.

I can’t wait for the summer drift events to start, once school is out for the summer, and i can finally get on the track as a driver…. its gonna be way fun.

I’ll try and get up a sound clip or something like a dumb ricer flyby or whatever.

Psyched i am.. for sure.

So after all of this nonsense i realized my car was running like crap. At first i thought it was bad compression which freaked me out but turns out it wasn’t here’s my update from back then.

So today i got to borrow a compression tester..

Compression is supposed to be 185psi. 142psi minimum.

So i tested the two cylinders i thought were effed up. (#2 and #4)

#2 tested out at 183psi!

#4 tested out at 180psi!

I am STOKED. During the #2 cylinder it started raining. SO i had to finish real quick and slap it all back together. I’ll check the other cylinders this weekend. But i’m psyched it’s not anything serious on those cylinders. So i’m now suspecting injectors. Will hopefully get those done this weekend. BALLER

Ok, so it’s been a while since I’ve updated this thing.

So what I’ve been up to?

Finally timed the car.
Replaced a bunch of hoses that were cracking.
Replaced the clutch slave cylinder AGAIN as it was leaking from the piston (bought a while ago and it only lasted like a month..

vv Installed one of these so I can tell when to shift.

Bought a ton of tires and went to an event on stock blown suspension.. I sucked.

[img]http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/7016/img3208edit700x466editne2.jpg[/img]

Small tight auto-x courses >> no powersteering.

Then I got some of these.

And borrowed some wheels from a buddy while his car is outta commission. And did some more…

Then we took some pictures!

And a video of the sound this thing makes.

http://videos.streetfire.net/vidiac.swf?video=4fe764ed-947f-43f9-a29b-9b3d00ffa586
My+Noisy+Car+(450sx)

So yeah, my alternator went out on my way to school. So 300 miles from my destination i was running on battery alone…. Had to keep switching batteries between our van and my car to try and make it. Well one of the batteries took a crap on us so i had to leave it at some random restaurant haha. Bought a new battery the next day and barely made it to my house in rapid city. So i ordered a new alternator and it wont be here till wed..

Suck!