DASH IS BACK IN.

Wiring is DONE.  I’m on the home stretch.  Can’t wait.

Stuff left to do:

Finish putting the interior back together
Install shifter
Install wideband (ok, so a small amount of wiring)
Install Exhaust
Oil/oil filter
Coolant
Thermostat
Siphon the 1yr old gas out
Bolt up Clutch slave cylinder
Bolt up Driveshaft
Find Coolant reservoir/make one

Optional stuff:

Subframe spacers
Install z32 e-brake cables
Fenders
Hood
Bumper

I’m sure i’m forgetting something.

Other than that stuff, hopefully i can start it on Sunday

YESSSS

will have pics later, too tired

Right, so apparently the water line that goes to our house broke.  We have this small hill in front of our house and i guess my room mate noticed water coming out of the hill and running down it a month ago?  There’s a nice long patch of grass that is WAY green compared to the other grass on the hill.   Anyways, he called it in and the water got shut off because of the broken pipe…. awesome.  But i guess this would explain our really low water pressure lately. Suck! No water means no showers, laundry, ramen noodles. How is a guy supposed to live?

Oh wait, there’s water in beer right??  Perfect.

So we re-machined the flywheel spacer today.  Got everything all nice and fixed up.

Here’s how the bushing was situated in it before the surgery.

And after.. (crappy pic, will get a better one later…)

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.

So here’s a picture from yesterday to get an idea of how much metal there is on the bottom of this pan..

Trying to get this all cleaned out is going to be pretty tough!  It’s like sludge on the bottom.

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

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
To anyone thats reading this. hah

BIRTHDAY, TODAY! 22…. starting to feel old haha..