September 2009

Tuning a Lightning

tim was tuning a lightning with a built motor, cams, and a magnum powers blower

524rwhp 611ftlbs on pumpgas

buttoning up the engine bay

getting everything plugged in and fitted the way we want, fuel lines connected now, double checked tight, plugged in all the sensors, put the new 90 on the throttle body, going to have to put a new elbow from the fender to the new 90, fill with coolant, oil, fill trans, double triple check, download tune, try to fire it with the 80lbers and see whats up.

Finished the nitrous kit on the GT and test sprayed

Finally put in many many hours this weekend on the car, saturday and sunday, i actually did everything right on my kit, fused wires running to everything, and relays powering the noids and bottle warmer, window and tps switch combined, automatic shut off for the bottle warmer, nice bottle brackets, filter on the nitrous noid, etc etc.

dont mind the shit in the engine bay, its from the headlight polishing i did threw that spatter all in there and i didnt clean it out yet.

2003 Altima Rear Brake Upgrade for 240sx

Big Boy Brakes - Poor Boy Cost

The 300zx front caliper swap for 240sx's is probably one of the easiest, and most common modification to S chassis car. A bolt on affair for any car with 5 lug hubs, it is one of the best, and ironically, cheapest modifications for 240sx's. However, with the easy front installation, there really has been no simple bolt on (and cheap) solution for the rear brakes of ours cars - until now. Certainly people can argue that using a Z32/R32/33/34 rear setup is the 'best' in their mind, but it's one big pain in in the ass to me, namely due to the fact that it requires new E brake cables, new brackety, and is costly (due to it being inrotor style). There had to be an easy solution to upgrade the rear setup on our cars, and now it's been found: 2001 Altima rotors.

Now before everyone says 'zomg, your not JDM tyte' or 'zomg it still uses a single piston caliper'....hold your horses. 1. JDM tyte is the last thing I could care about. 2. That may be true, but who cares...run a proper pad, and the difference would be negliable at best. After street and track usage, I will attest to this setup making my car have (dare I say) the perfect brake setup for the car (I currerntly have 300zx calipers with 13" Cobra rotors, and a Z31 master cylinder). With just 300zx stuff, you usually end up with 1 of 2 thigs: Either improper balance (with z32 MC) causing back breaks to lock up...or 2: The rear rotors getting wore out in a hurry, trying to do a ton of work with aggressive pads. To combat that, my new setup kills two birds with one stone.

So alas, here is the setup "brake" down:

1. 2003 Nissan Altima Rotors (makes no difference in trim level if the part store asks...all rear disc 3rd Generation Altimas share the same rotor) (got mine from carquest...any OE setup will work.
2. Z31 Rear Caliper braket (any year Z31 will work) (I sourced mine used from 300zx forum)
3. Stock S14 rear calipers (already on my car, but I got new ones anyway as I'm a parts changer like that)

To easy right?!? Such a simple setup that any monkey with half a brain can install.

So anywho, here are some pics. NOTE: YOU DO NOT NEED WASHERS BETWEEN THE Z31 BRACKET AND THE S14 HUBS ! I know my pictures have them, but they actually were NOT NEEDED. Using washers spaces the rotor to far out, and it rubs the bracket then. Rubbin's gay.

For fully gallery:http://www.codyace.com/gallery/album333

Z31 Bracket on the S14 rear hub. Note that yo need to hack the shit ot of the rear dust cover to make itwork

Here is a picture of the bracket and the rotor

Pad on thebracket

Caliper installed

HappyTime

quick sprint on the 75 shot

just showing ryan the nitrous kit, hitting it on the 75shot for fun at night, cant see much but why not. dyno tomorrow

Headlight Refinish

refinished the headlights on my car with a 3m kit today, so yellow and hazy, i could have my high beams on and not even tell.

Video of the engine install

Motor install today, and a little reworking of the fuel system

feeding fuel from the back now, regulator mounted to the rail in the front, just a few more fittings and the fuel system will be done. motor, trans and driveshaft are in. hope to fire it up in a week or two.

Noids, nozzle, and some wiring done.

got some bulk stuff out of the way tonight on the GT, i just need some small fittings to finish and wire up a relay for the noids.

brought the car out of storage today

took it out of storage and prepped the motor for install, clutch and bellhousing will go on and then we can drop the motor in tuesday night. bolt up the trans etc.

TDI exhaust

we wanted this TDI to actually sound, and stink, and breathe like a diesel. to blow black smoke, smell like unburnt kerosine, and whistle like a dump truck. So we strait piped the whole exhaust and gutted the stock cat.

Here is the end result

GT supercar pump in the GT

installed a GT supercar pump in the GT today, for if i decide to finish my nitrous kit or go turbo.

10 min exhaust install on the TDI

corey bought a 06 TDI today to daily drive, and he had it for about 10 min and we strait piped the exhaust, in 10 min.

sloppy port work, and valve adjustments

ryan was busy porting the intake a tiny bit, gasket and matching to the heads, i was installing the valvetrain, pushrods, rockers, and adjusting them.