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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.

Not too much has been going on these last couple of weeks. Have been flat out at work doing OT. Got the boot wall cut up a couple weeks ago. Still need to pull it back out and carpet it. Will run the carpet to overlap onto the factory mould on the RHS and probably use some velcro to stick them together. Been working on the harness this weekend. Bulkhead is terminated now and sleeved back to ecu. Need to wait for that and mount it up to get the correct length on the wires before terminating. Got a call last week saying my tailshaft was finally finished. Went to pick it up and they had a uni joint on the gearbox end at the measurement I gave them instead of a flange.... So they need to shorten it and fix that up. Hopefully not another 4 month wait...

Got the other lines done today. It looks OK. The benders aren't the greatest things. Marks the tube up a little bit, but it'll do the job. Contemplating redoing a couple of them. Ill only get one shot as I stuffed up a couple already 🤣

Injector pins came yesterday, got that wired straight up and heatshrunk the label down. Picked up my mates tube benders yesterday as well so I started them today. Decided to move the inline fuel filter to the boot to clean the bay up a little more. Will get the other lines in and then see if I can drop them down a little so they dont sit as high.

Not sure tbh, both have pros and cons. 350z pedal pros - match stock pedals, bolt in, cheaper (2nd hand) cons - needs modding. Engine harness is almost finished now. Waiting on those new pins to finish the injector 4 connector, need a new knock sensor connector as it came out when I was trying to depin it and a flex sensor plug too. ECU is sold now so I can go ahead and order the new FuryX as well as a new Bosch LSU 4.9 and a flex fuel sensor. Work has ramped up now so I'm going to lose my afternoons or a Saturday to work on the car... Still got a fair bit to do, wiring, plumbing, fab, sound system etc. Will eventually get around to it 🤣😭

Finally got a couple hours yesterday and got stuck into the injector harness. Went to plug them all in and one didnt seat. Pulled the pins out and Golebys sent me a wrong pin.... They'll be sending out new pins this week sometime. Did a little bit on it today. The connectors aren't bootable so I shrunk some SCL around the end of it which is just enough for the boot not to be able to pull off easily and makes it look 100x better. Need to get a couple hours and put it in the car and see where I need to crimp the 8way connectors and splice the powers in both and gnd in coilpack harness.

Couple hours on the harness today. My boot and last couple of dtm connectors finally rocked up. 90⁰ boot looks awesome! Got the coil pack harness labelled and started pinning up a few connectors and sealing them up. Better have no issues with this harness for another 20 yrs 🤣 Away for the weekend doing work on my Uncles place so won't be any progress until next week

Johnny said a new pedal will basically turn it into an M2. DBW throttle body requires a sensored pedal.

Pulled the stock pedal out this arvo and bolted up the V35 pedal. It's not too bad, but definitely not the right angle of the dangle. I'm thinking a little tweak to the right and angle it down a bit more and it'll be sweet. Popped the engine harness in and got a couple of measurements for the coil packs and injectors. Got the coil pack harness all twisted up and terminated. Will finish sheathing it tomorrow and hopefully start splicing the 12V and GND.

Didn't get anything done over the weekend unfortunately. But got stuck in today and got the woofer spacers all cut out. 2x18mm thick that I'll glue together for a little bit more rigidity and then give it a bit of a trim up to try and get them a bit nicer and more matched. Drilled the stock holes out and put some nutserts in and mounted one side up to see how it sits andddd the door card still fits. I believe it sits out about 6mm further than stock and it looked like you could come out further when I tried to look through the speaker grille. Did some measuring and the distance from the back of the stock speaker spacer to the mounting surface is 65mm. The new speaker depth is 70mm so it should sit out 1mm further than the back of the stock spacer which will clear the window coming down I ordered new injector, coil pack, dbw pedal connectors as well as a 90⁰ boot for the bulkhead connector. Should have them this week sometime then I can start making those up. In the meantime I'm gonna change pedals over and mount the 3 port pressure sensor block up next to the booster somewhere and I'll have to get some AN3 fittings and hose. Going to mount Oil, Coolant and MAP on it to get them off the engine and I'll leave the fuel pressure sensor on the reg. Still have to find somewhere to mount the trans thermostat, bolt up the ac pump and put the belt on. I had a quick look at the engine harness and forgot that I loomed it all up with the body wiring 😴😴 I'll have to pull it all out, cut the engine harness out and redo it to make it neat again.

They both came up Mickey Mouse! Looking good mate

Finished pinning up the bulkhead again this arvo and then popped out into the shed and decided to mount a tweeter. Got them secured into a good spot with @GTSBoy comment about cleaning/clearance. Unfortunately the woofers are pretty big and don't bolt into the stock pod so I will look at either modding them or maybe cut out some new ones from the MDF I got. Measured about 40mm of space ive got to work with to the door card so 2x18mm glued together should work out well.

Haha thanks man, I wish I had more time to do it! Get maybe an hour or two in the arvos so I try and do little bits while I can haha. 🤣🤣 bulkhead was a c**t today... I had to depin it so I could put the last bit of heatshrink on. So tomorrow arvo will be spent pinning it back up, hopefully in the correct positions 🫣 My dbw pedal arrived today as well so over the weekend I might pull the stock one out and pop this in and see what adjustments I have to make to it. Will also look at pulling factory harness out and laying the new harness in and get lengths to start the injector and coil pack harnesses as well as changing a couple of connectors on the trigger sensors so I can boot/heatshrink them.