Fuel Lines

For some reason i knew i was not through with problems....  Come home and find the garage reeking of fuel.  Look under the car and one of my fuel hard lines is leaking.  God this is annoying.  Guess i'll have to replace either all of it or a portion of it.  Think i'm going to replace a large section of it and re-route it anyways since my exhaust is really close to it.  We'll see what i end up doing.

First fill up!

Wooo! First fill-up. Was scraping the entire way there. It's dumb, I can't go anywhere because the exhaust hangs too low (quite literally .5 to 1 inch off the ground..), and not only that it took me at least 10 minutes to get out of the driveway using two 2x8x8's... Going to have to raise it.

Also, wheels ship out tomorrow i hear... so i can chuck these nasty 4lug stockers i'm using for the time being. They will also hopefully raise the rear a bit so i can still tuck some tire.

pic.

Video!

Description:

First start after pulling the engine and replacing the transmission. Also did a wire tuck and painted the bay along with some other goodies. There is some abnormal valve noise at first but i think it was a partially stuck lifter as the engine had been sitting a while. Once it warmed up a bit the noise went away so i think it'll be alright. Also using a 10w-30 instead of 5w-30 so that might have some effect on it.

ALIVE

SNAP!  It's ALIIIIIVE!!

It started right up.  Had the fuel lines hooked up backwards last night.  Fixed that today and BAM.

Idle's like a champ at 650 rpm.  awesomesauce.

Video will be up soooon

Easter

Happy Easter everyone!  Hope you all have a FEAST.

The car is completely back together now.  Tried to start it last night and figured out i had re-wired the fuel pump incorrectly as the pump was not turning on. I fixed that and it still wouldn't fire.  Figured out i had zero fuel pressure.  Genius of myself hooked up the fuel lines backwards...... soooo i decided to call it quits there as it was 2am.  So hopefully today i can swap those fuel lines around, get some pressure and hopefully it starts up!  Would be quite interesting to have the cars "second-first" start on Easter!

GO EAT SOME FOOD!  Or find some Easter eggs if that's what you do.

OH MAN OH MAN

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

Watering the lawn

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.

Too low?

Pulled the engine TWICE today.. thing made me super frustrated, nothing would line up. Also, now that i've raised the engine an inch the drivers header literally is 1mm from the steering column... pretty sure it's going to make some noise. Anyways i think the engine is in there for good now. (Thank God) headers are on and wrapped the passenger side header to protect the fuel lines from the heat.

Header wrapped, white was dumb as it looks awesome but gets so dirty! Oh well, i wanted to see what it'd be like so no big deal to me.

Also got the powersteering lines hooked up along with relocating the PS reservoir out of the way.  I think i might paint this white eventually.  But for now i don't care.  I just want to drive it.

Also, pretty sure this flange is going to get ground down more.... not exactly sure why i welded this one like this.  The other one is angled for most clearance...  I wonder how long i'll be able to get away with being this loww. Dangit

3/8" drive

Sandblasting and Painting

Got the exhaust sandblasted today!  After typing this i realized i forgot to weld another o2 bung on the exhaust for my wideband before painting it.  Dangit!    Anyways, so Joe's Sandblasting and Powder Coating cleaned up my exhaust.  Results were great!  But it makes me realize just how much my exhaust rusted over just ONE winter...... pitting = yuck.  Also decided to take the tension rod brackets off and have them blasted as well.

Then painted stuff.  I love painting, but i'm so impatient!

Here's right as i got back to the house from the blaster.  Forgot to take a pic before i took the other header out..

Here's before the paint for one of the headers.  Too bad i wasn't "baller" enough to do stainless huh.

Didn't paint the center section because that happens to be stainless.

Headers are painted white this time.  I like it.

One more.

Tension rods are silver, i guess light colors are the theme.

Also managed to mount my circuit breaker FINALLY.  I kept breaking the tab off the circuit breaker when i tightened it down so i riveted a piece of 1/4" aluminum to the side to hold it.  No more irregular surface.  Disregard the messy trunk.

Wiring pt. 5 (fuse panel) and wheels

Alright, so i lied about the plethora of images.  I didn't think i'd get a chance to work on the car till the weekend but it was so nice out i decided i had to take a couple hours and dink around.

I ended up almost putting the intake manifold on until i realized i don't have the headers on yet. DOH!    You must be wondering why does it matter if the intake manifold is on or not.  Well the fact is - i need to lift the engine and half way pull it out to get them suckers on.... its really dumb.  So i ended up calling a couple places to see about getting them blasted.  Joe's Sandblasting & Painting is where i'm going to be taking the headers and rest of the exhaust tomorrow around 10.  Then i will paint them real quick with some high temp paint.  Colors?  Black? Silver?  Any suggestions?? I'm thinking silver headers with the rest black.

So after i realized i couldn't do that it was back to that pesky wiring.... this stuff is getting super old.  Ended up making a Fuse/Relay box panel so i can see how the glove box is going to fit over it.  It's not going to cooperate very well so i'm going to have to make some modifications to the metal shroud and then it should be gravy.

Pictures.

I remember i promised some better pictures than the horrible cell phone pic's i put up last time so here are their replacements. Enjoy my un-edited photos. I'm lazy lol.

Front end.

Better picture of the nice fender damage I've got going on on my passenger side.  The big thank you goes out to the idiot that backed into it in my schools parking lot last year.

And here's another one just for fun.