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Wiring pt. 3

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Today i only worked on the wiring for about 3.5 to 4 hours.  I just can’t fall asleep until 2 am at least anymore haha.

Still, i finished the drivers side part of the under dash harness!  I’ve moved the Wiper Amp inside to under the dash so there is minimal stuff in the bay.  Also incorporated the BMC wiring and shock tower ground into the same harness. I didn’t sleeve anything because, well, the lengths were so short it didn’t seem worth it to me.  Plus it’s going to be under the dash.  All of this is labeled in the picture below.

This next pictures show kind of how the wiring is routed.  I just realized how nasty my brake booster looks in this bay from the next two pictures haha.  Going to have to take that out and paint it… white or black?  white??

 
  

And below is what i have left to do…..  YUCK!!!

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Wiring up Front

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Got some work done today. I basically finished the wiring harness i made to replace EVERYTHING up front. This harness is for the lights/motors/blinkers/side markers. I will never do this again in my life (maybe). And i advise anyone else to PAY someone to do this for them as this is a giant pain.

A huge reason why it took so long is because i used OEM nissan connectors that i pulled off the q45 harness i have. So basically de-pined everything, including connectors up front, so i could get the sleeving over it. Lots and lots of labeling. And the soldering/extending/finding correct pins for the end that is going to connect to the chassis harness. 

This is how it’s run up along the frame rail. I might add heat wrap around it later, not sure yet.  



Here’s the front end how it splits to the other side. 

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Flywheel Spacer/Clutch on Engine

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Here’s better pics of the flywheel spacer. If you look at the previous picture of it you can see the bushing is now recessed 11mm in the spacer.

 
Here’s just a random picture i took after we bolted the new clutch and lightweight flyhwheel to the engine.  Notice the sign in the background lol.  I just noticed it got into the pic.

 – Chase

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Shifter Fabrication

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Well we had everything bolted up yesterday, spacer, clutch, flywheel.. go to put the trans on and SAME issue as 2 to 3 years ago..  trans wouldn’t go on.  Figured out that the guy either messed up when making the flywheel spacer or it’s not supposed to use a pilot bearing (which i doubt).  There’s 10mm of interference between the bushing and the input shaft..  Back to the machinist to fix the issue..

Other things i DID get done yesterday are make the modified shifter mount.  For those of you that don’t know the linkage on a z32 has a solid bar inbetween these mountings thats about 2-3 inches long or so.  Cut that out and modified the stock mount.  Before this i had it bolted to the car instead of to the trans.  I think this is a much better design than before.

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closer!

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Word, actually just did some work on it today. Gonna say screw it with the oil pan idea for now. I will still work on it on the mock-up engines but i need to get an engine back in so i can finish the wiring.

So we took the oil pan off the one of the engines with a spun bearing and mother of god, it looked like silver pearl in oil. Metal shavings EVERYWHERE. Nothing like i have ever seen.

Spun bearings = BAD

So i’m going to take the pan to a shop and have them put it in the cleaner/boiler, whatever. (unless someone’s got a better idea)

Hopefully have the engine back in the car by tomorrow. Wiring is all thats left to get it running then.

Over and OUT