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Did some baking today, managed to fit it all in the oven. Turned out pretty good. Hopefully it holds up well to a bit of tool abuse. Popped a few pieces on to see what the colours will look like. Pretty happy with how it came up. Now to wait for the rest of the stuff to rock up

Did a little bit this afternoon and pulled the dump and turbo off so I could take the mani off to clean it up and give it a few coats of paint. Wire wheeled what I could get to and then got the sand paper out to get the tight spots. Gave it one coat so far, will do another two tomorrow and see if I can fit it in the oven to bake it for an hour along with the adapter and dbw. Hoping the exhaust wrap I ordered turns up soon so I can wrap the dump and screamer. Ordered 30M so I'll wrap back as far as I can to help a little with temp next to the box and also the floorpan.

Got a message mid morning saying it was all done! Tow truck picked it up around lunch time and dropped it home. I pulled it all apart and dropped it down to the powdercoaters. Should have it back next week sometime. Popped down and grabbed some high temp paint and gave the radiator, TB and adapter a couple of coats. Came up looking sweet. It has a nice look to it. Tomorrow I'll pull the dump and screamer off so I can wrap them with exhaust wrap. Then pull turbo and mani off so I can sand the mani back as its got a bit of rust coming through the ceramic coating and looks shit.

Got the old girl all prepped to be picked up for fab tomorrow morning. Finished bolting up the speakers and got the door cards back on and cleared out the loose bits and pieces from the interior. Popped the cold side pipe back on and refitted catch can. Trimmed some more metal from the passenger guard so it will clear with the new position of the turbo. Tried to push it out the front but my yards super muddy with all the rain we've had in Bris the last couple of days. Required a light tow to get her down the side, luckily from another Nissan 🤣 Got her into the garage and ready for the tow truck at 0630 tomorrow. It's going in for dump pipe mod, screamer plumbed back with provision to vent or plumb like my first setup and also going to get the muffler moved back closer to the bumper which should make it look a lot better. Cooler pipes modded to suit DBW TB and new turbo, fab new top radiator pipe to mate with the new hypertune manifold hose and then weld up my shifter drop box.

Got the speakers wired up in the doors today. I end up cutting the wire where I could access it and put new speaker wire on to run down to the crossovers and ran them to woofer and tweeter. I used the original speaker wire that went down to woofer to reuse the crimps. Mate said he has a spot free to fab my intercooler pipes, dump and other bits and pieces on Monday so I started getting shit out and putting everything together that needs to go down with it. Got the rad in so he can fab the new top pipe to the hypertune hose as well.

Yesterday I got the pressure sensor harness in and then started going through the stock ecu wiring and labelling everything I need to wire up to the new ecu. There wasn't a whole lot that I had to reuse. Ac in/out, powersteer, start position, and a couple of Digital Inputs and Aux outs Ive got running around the car. Was left over with a bunch of unused factory wires. Went to run some speaker cable through to the doors but found out it's on a connector so that was a no go. Will probably end up tapping onto the stock wire and running to the back for an amp.

Already told you @Dose Pipe Sutututu 🤣🤣 Wouldn't call it milspec haha. This is just some tefzel twisted up with dr25 slapped around 🤣

Popped into Jaycar on the way home from work and grabbed some clear shrink. Crimped up the last connector and then finished off the EMAP connector as well. Tomorrow I'll hopefully get it in the car ready to go.

Thanks mate, wiring can transform the engine bay look! Plus I was thinking about doing it as a bit of a side gig later on so might as well get some practice in on my own car 🤣 Started splicing wires and getting it all sheathed and terminated today. Almost finished but ran out of clear shrink to finish the last connector Will pop to the shop tomorrow and pick up some more and finish it off and get it in the car this week.

Got my lengths all cut for the pressure sensors and terminated at one end. Need to splice them now and shrink it all up and terminate sensor connectors. Finally found some M10 bolts kicking around to bolt my A/C compressor back up. Popped the belt on and tensioned it all up. Decided to take my pedal into work with me today and bend my pedal into position. No chance I was getting it perfect without test fitting so I picked up a new much needed vice after work and bent it up this afternoon. Got it into the position I wanted and then started cutting the stopper to reach full throttle piece by piece. Grabbed a few bolts from work to see what I'd need to fix the boot wall so it doesn't rattle and smash my hardlines up around while I'm driving. Test fitted one bolt up and will need to work out how I'll do the rest of them without it being a total prick to move around to undo the hardlines. I'm thinking a bracket on the top right and then stud the bottom left corner out to secure it.

Picked up a bunch of fittinga yesterday to finish plumbing the fuel system and sensor block and finished it all up this arvo. Went to put the crank sensor in after I finished shrinking it all up. There wasn't enough clearance to screw it back in with the SCL on the back so I had to cut it off and put another piece over, screw it in and then shrink it back down. Next up will be sorting the wiring back out 😴

I'm pretty sure it's out of a falcon. I believe it comes as one (centre bearing and cv). I originally thought I'd have the stock centre bearing until I picked it up and they told me. They had a hard time finding something that would work with the stock setup.

Yesterday I snuck out into the shed for an hour and pulled the boot wall out and cut up some carpet to glue on. Also glued the speaker pods together and let it all sit overnight with some weights on them. Went out today and glued the carpet around the sides and back and then started the driver side speaker mounting while I let it all dry. Started to tidy up the wiring back there and get it all ready for when I put a new battery in. Going to relug the surge tank wiring as it looks like I didn't use the right ring lugs 🤣 Some too big and some not big enough. Both speakers are now in, need to get some speaker wire and run it through the car and while I'm there I need to find where my rear wheelspeed sensor cable is sitting under the carpet 🤦‍♂️

Couple more hours on her today. Mounted up the sensor block. Should look pretty neat once its all done. Wiring won't come out on the most ideal angle but I'll see what I can do. Decided to get back in and have a look at the speakers and crossovers. Got the driver side woofer ready to mount up, I just need to get some longer bolts. Cut the passenger side stock speaker mount up to get the door bin blocker on and made up some brackets to mount the crossovers. First one I wasn't happy with, so I changed angles for the second one which looks a lot better. Will see how it goes when it comes to wiring it up to see if it'll still clear alright.

Picked my tailshaft up yesterday arv!! Test fit it and because they've gone to a ford centre bearing and CV I had to modify the mounting bracket a little bit. 5mm of each side and she went up into position and fits well. It has a 1350 uni and flange on the gearbox end so it should be plenty strong! Got stuck in this morning and started on the wiring mess. Cut out all the wires not required that go to the body connector and cut the engine harness out. Need to go through and work out which ones I need to keep and rewire into the new ecu. Should save a small amount of weight as well. I'd love to get in and rip the dash and everything out to completely remove wiring but cbf. Next up was the power harness for alternator, starter etc. It has a few connectors from factory that run out of it. Cut it all apart and removed what was no longer required and put some new corro and taped it all back up and bolted it all back into place. After that I worked out where I can mount the new flex sensor. Found a couple of factory bolt holes and drilled a new hole on the bracket to suit. Need to go get a few fittings and adapters tomorrow so I can keep going.