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Update been cracking on fuel lines are done wiring is done and earth's done. Been working on the vacuum pipes so far replaced all the inlet pipes also connected the coolant pipes up to the Heater matrix. After that I started mocking up the intercooler and made a start on the intercooler piping looks like I'm going to have to get a new washer bottle and I worked out the brackets I need to make to hold the rad and intercooler anyway heres a few pics 

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Well a fairly successful weekend on the zed got the intercooler mocked up in the correct position finished making up the intercooler pipes. After that I made up some brackets to hold the intercooler and some brackets to hold the top of the rad 

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Cheers 350z butcher been keeping an eye on your thread aswell all those track days look great fun. Anyway another weekend more progress painted the intercooler brackets and rad brackets, after this is put the front end back together for the final tim and did the intercooler piping, so far so good.Next I tackled the throttle cable which is done and went fairly well using an s13 pedal. Roll on the next day and it just didn't go well spent about two hours trying to bleed the clutch before giving up it just wasnt happening so I'm going to try fitting a new slave cylinder and line. Hopefully this will sort my problem anyway heres a few pictures. The list of jobs Is getting smaller I have to put the new fuel pump in and modify the basket, buy some new slim remotec fans so I can run a pull system and fit some turbo gasket then it should be test fire time :)

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7 hours ago, Ross k said:

Cheers 350z butcher been keeping an eye on your thread aswell all those track days look great fun. Anyway another weekend more progress painted the intercooler brackets and rad brackets, after this is put the front end back together for the final tim and did the intercooler piping, so far so good.Next I tackled the throttle cable which is done and went fairly well using an s13 pedal. Roll on the next day and it just didn't go well spent about two hours trying to bleed the clutch before giving up it just wasnt happening so I'm going to try fitting a new slave cylinder and line. Hopefully this will sort my problem anyway heres a few pictures. The list of jobs Is getting smaller I have to put the new fuel pump in and modify the basket, buy some new slim remotec fans so I can run a pull system and fit some turbo gasket then it should be test fire time :)

 

More good progress Ross! Shame about the clutch bleeding agro, hope you get that sorted with the new one.

 

You planning on tracking yours? Be good to see this when its running.

 

Not looked into it at all but if I do go down the throttle bodies route one day then I'll need to install a cable throttle. Does the S13 pedal fit straight up or is it part 350z part S13 you need to use?

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I am hoping to take the car out on track once I've got it all fettled but we shall see how it performs when it's done I'm going to put the car on a weigh bridge when it's done to calculate the extra weight then Im hoping to buy appropriate coilovers:). As for the throttle pedal the s13 pedal bolts straight in but I did have to bend it a little to make it sit right with the other pedals. The cable comes out just behind the edge of the brake servo which is a bit of a pain in the arse but as long as your careful it worked fine and I just used a 2m universal cable hope that helps 

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9 hours ago, Ross k said:

I am hoping to take the car out on track once I've got it all fettled but we shall see how it performs when it's done I'm going to put the car on a weigh bridge when it's done to calculate the extra weight then Im hoping to buy appropriate coilovers:). As for the throttle pedal the s13 pedal bolts straight in but I did have to bend it a little to make it sit right with the other pedals. The cable comes out just behind the edge of the brake servo which is a bit of a pain in the arse but as long as your careful it worked fine and I just used a 2m universal cable hope that helps 

 

That's good, drop us a pm when you're booking something up, would be good to come along too and check it out. Sensible re suspension, cant buy off the shelf stuff when its not an off the shelf car! Be interesting to see how different it is from before and how the distribution is.

Thanks for the info on the pedal, good to know its doable and pretty straight forward......I'm sure throttle bodies are years away if at all due to the £££ involved but nice to have the plan together should I ever go down that route

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I will definatlly give you a pm 350 butcher when I book a track day but to be honest it seems a long way of right now. Anyway had a couple of weekends on the zed fitted a new slave and line fitted all the gaskets, I then  finished bolting the turbo inlet etc together etc.This weekend was supposed to be the big one the test fire but unfortunatlly I'm having problems I seem to have a wiring fault meaning when you then the ignition on the fuel pump stays on constantly and won't turn of again until you disconnect the battery even with the key out also a load of dash lights stay on constantly this is worrying me to be honest but hopefully wiring specialists will get it sorted as I hate wiring. On the plus side the fuel pump is done and basket modified and theirs no leaks in the fuel lines. As for the clutch bleeding I give up we gave it another go today and we got the pedal pretty good and I thought we will just bleed a bit more and boom the pedals gone again and doesn't want to come back  overall a very annoying day!! 

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Cheers keyser.Fairly succesful weekend after some wiring Alteration after some support from wiring specialist the car starts and runs I've got no leaks anywhere so happy days! However the clutch still won't be after about 2 hours using the Nissan method of bleeding do you guys reckon the master cylinder could be knackered? Thanks Ross 

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Well done Ross.....elec/wiring faults are the worst in my world, glad you got that sorted.

 

Re clutch.....not sure what the Nissan method is but mine has always been crack bleed nipple, depress clutch pedal, lock off nipple, release pedal (repeat) making sure you don't run out of fluid on the way. But annoying with the clutch as the pedal wont return so needs pulling up every time but that works a treat.

 

Does the fluid drop as you depress the pedal? Are you getting any feel/weight to the pedal at all?  

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I started of with that method 350 butcher but wasn't getting far you can get it to the point of around 1/4 of the clutch pedal has feel but you can't get it to return on its own. You start building up pressure then all of a sudden the pedal goes again and won't Come back I've flushed about 1 litre at least though the system 

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Did you end up using the 350 gearbox? If so, might be worth replacing the slave cylinder before the master if that's not been done already. They are prone to fail when bleeding the clutch causing the pedal to act weird and not return properly.

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Cheers for the input guys I have used the 350z gearbox but I have already changed the slave cylinder and put a braided line on so I have now ordered a master aswell. The car is booked in to have the exhaust done on the 11th of next month so hopefully after that it will be ready for a shake down thanks for looking Ross 

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Few more updates fitted a new master cylinder I now have half the pedal back but it still won't return after half way we also tried making a slave cylinder extension but that also failed I'm a little lost now as to what this could be and about 2 days of bleeding in total getting fed up with lieing under the car 

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I spent quite a while working out the throw and it should work OK I had to space the pivot ball in the gear box out with an extra washer to get 5mm extra forward throw but with the custom flywheel their wasn't a massive difference I think I'm still having bleeding issues thanks for the help :)

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Only around stock to start with about 300 but it will have the same torque at 2500 revs as a de at 6000 so it should be noticeable and around 450 one day :). Anyway more clutch bleeding and it still won't work correctly I've come to the conclusion my calculations must have been of when working out the throwout bearing reach. I needed 6mm extra reach and added one extra washer under the pivot ball to allow more throw. I could really do with a favour if someone could nip under their car and measure the distance from a point on the slave to the clutch fork with the pedal up that would be amazing as this gives me a stock measurement to compare mine to I have shown a picture of mine

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