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Adam's 350z, Just built for a laugh!!


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You are a nutter, it's brilliant !

I just realised you mentioned it was backdated, I thought this was happening in real time :D

Seriously impressed with the competent skills to install this, perhaps you can lend a hand when I do something daft with an engine swap :lol:

 

 

 

(don't worry only jk, not going to happen for a long old time :surrender:)

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fantastic thread.. And top work with the fuel pump modfication..

 

Will be keeping an eye on this thread for updates

 

The fuel pump mod is pretty straight forward compared to the custom fabrication of all the mounts & wiring.

 

Great thread :thumbs: I guess I have lost the quickest build award now :surrender:

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Thank you everyone for the comments its all backed dates so that's the reason it's getting posted so quickl. It's been a year since I started building it and it's still being build so you all be up to date soon there is still loads more to come!!

 

Great thread :thumbs: I guess I have lost the quickest build award now :surrender:

 

Then maybe I haven't & I can retain my 2x title for a while longer :teeth:

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With turbo and intercooler fitted it requires the pipes to be squeezed into the engine bay..

Turbo outlet just about the alternator.

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Inlet manifold inlet ..

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these are the pipes that need to fit in the gaps, they are 3inch reduced to 2.5inch

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N/S/F gap

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O/S/F gap with pipe fitted

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Front view of pipes

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All the pipes needed to be checked for clearance of the front wheels, to ensure the over sized wheels could actually still fully lock both ways. Everything was ok .... with a few things cut and moved out the way.

The car has had both windscreen and headlight washer bottles removed and will need to plumbed back into the car somewhere else.

 

New exhaust turned up . Its a cobra Y-pipe back but this car has no Y-pipes so I need to make the section between the down pipe and the cobra exhaust..

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The exhaust is not complete at the moment, due to a few random issues under the car, but here are a few pictues of what it should look like. There are not very good pictures due to not beening able to really get under the car..

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Sitting nice and flush against the body.

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Now lets talk electronics....haha

The first thing that happened was to throw away the OEM Toyota loom and ecu..

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Far too many old wires with poor connections and damaged plug connectors, not a big job to fix, but the problems with the 350Z. haha

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So as you know from this, the standard 350Z rev counter will not work, and due to keeping the NATS on the car some other fetures started to work intermittently and cause really odd reading from differnt ecu outputs. the body loom runs quite a few can bus systems not working on voltage but signals and ecu outputs and inputs. The air bag control unit was removed along with a large number of other control unit, so that I could make my own wiring modifications to the can bus system. I changed a large amount of ecu control inputs and outputs resulting in the whole cars electronics working correctly, like making the heater blower work correctly. Other systems that were removed were thing like the starter motor wiring and fuel pump wiring, so that the car didnt think that its stolen due to not having any communication with the engine ecu.

A number of nissan contol unit had to be opened and internally rewired to work with the engine swap..

With all of that sorted for now there was only one way to go with the engine and buy a standalone engine management system.

A box turned up one day..

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A box with a few wires..

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Its a Link G4 xtreme standalone engine management system, did loads of research and its had all the fetures I wanted for an aftermarket ecu.

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Random piture of the G4 compared to 350Z and 1JZ ECUs....

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It has integrated boost solenoid, runs a MAP sensor and can and allows you to add you own aux outputs, like EGT and additional injection fetures.

Also never used the system so will teach myself how to...

So I made a new engine loom after work.

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An hours later looked like this

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Updated the ignition system so wired in Audi TT ignition coils.

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Have a cool mounting bracket so it look neat and tidy.

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Had a change of colour of the rocker covers....

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Its too pink, wanted a deep purple so it will be change,as there is a change of plan with a new breather system beening made.

 

So the wires stared to go in.

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Also the standard instrument cluster replaced with a ETB Digidash with GSP speedo and speed camera detection system built in.

As the cars getting build its becoming less and less road legal...And more race car..haha

 

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Fitted new fuel lines with AN-6 lines and tested the fuel pump.. and ended up with a massive fuel leak.. it took 3 days to rectify the leak.. the pump is monstrous. So the lines were removed and checked and checked again..was not much fun...

The fuel lines still need to be done again due to them running too close to some of the wiring and the battery being upgraded and relocated.

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Small update on the car..

So with the car jacked up fitted a homemade exhaust from the dowm pipe to the Cobra back section..

Not easy due to the camber of the road so couldn't get the car too high...

 

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Now for the tail pipes..Due the the high temperatures of the exhaust I went for something different.

made more for purpose then show....and they are only 2.5inch pipe which is the diameter of the corba exhaust..

 

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Then heat wrapped them,it's Smooth woven Basalt Exhaust wrap, the same as the down pipe.

 

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Should prevent the bumper from melting..

 

Next up removed all the fuel lines and refitted them away from the wiring loom..

 

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Haha Arron popped over....Whats he up to??

More AN fittings arrived..

 

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using bulkhead fitting to keep everything safe and also looks professional..

 

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The red liquid around the base is a liquid gasket to prevent water ingress into the cabin..

 

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A random photo of the amount of gold in the engine bay...looks good when the sun is out!!

 

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AN fitting and pipe used for the high pressure power steering pipe. It has a maximum operating pressure of 2500psi and burst pressure of 6000psi.

 

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Relocated the battery in the boot. Using an Odyssey Extreme racing battery, AGM construction and 5.7kg in weight..

 

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