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thought i should post up about my cefiro`s ive been a member for a long time but havent had much going on till now so here it goes, after coming back to NZ for a while because my brother had a major car crash (100kph in his r32 into a side of a van) i decided to get another cefiro to bring back to aus with me when i go back so i ended up finding one a factory turbo good body on it but unfortunitly it has a 20de fitted to it but not to worried as i have a couple other cars to build one and also been buying and stripping cefiros for the last 6 years in NZ lol

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next thing i had to do was change the doors they all had rust in the frame and also the front drivers guard lucky enough i got my hands on a pair of brand new guards so they all got the satin black treatment for now, while they were off it gave me time to reflect on how gross the early interior is so i fitted a facelift parcel shelf with air purifier and a s3 rear seat also through out my cefiro buying i got my hands on a set of doorcards from a 93 SE-T that have the GTR material so eventually ill match the rear seat to suit them, back seat will have to come out so its just sitting in there at the moment have to run a new loom through for the air purifier, push button boot popper and the fuel fuller cable

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the car came with recaros in it but i swapped them out for now to r32 seats i had lying around because me being 6 foot 3 the seats were mounted to high, ill put some low mounting rails on them at a later stage

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loom for the purifier and boot popper switch, so gives me something to do for the next couple days tidy the wiring and ill switch the carpet over at the same time

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thanks mate tooks a long time to find some of them but its all worth it got some more to go on soon heated side mirrors, auto adjusting rear vison mirror etc the car had cruise control and electronic contolled suspension for sport or comfort so going to love sitting in it playing with all the buttons lol

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my first cef had the electric front seats only one i seen with the electric passenger seat i have all the wiring for the body for them but being young and dumb i sold a car with them sitting in it

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productive day today got the boot popper installed and also the air purifier wiring done, after that i decided since i changed to the boot popper to swap the fuel filler/boot cable to suit this would be a easy thing to do if the car was stripped down or if i had the hands of an 8year old little girl but i got it in the end so another thing checked off the list, also in my hunt though my parts i found my abundance of floor mats and my factory turbo manual cluster and while i was at it i put on my facelift mudflaps since i want to keep it looking original to a point they still need a paint and also the front ones fitted but good things take time

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yea took me awhile to get it i tried to buy the car it was on for about a year and always got told no then oneday a mate saw the car at a wreckers lol dont see many around with the front lips anymore!

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not alot done today had to fix the previous owners mess of wiring done for the horn, he cut out all the wiring for the horn and wired it to a button because the cheap steering wheel and bosskit that was on it didnt have the metal ring to contact for the horn, so had to strip it all out and rewire in that part of the loom and instal the plunger that sits against the steering wheel to make contact so it was all fiddly work but got it done and connected up, also finally put on my indicator and window washer stalks while i was there bought them brand new from nissan a long time ago and never seen much use, also dug out my genuine nissan wheel chocks too

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so looking at the loom on my cefiro its a factory turbo square plug loom but it has been shotty rewired to run the round plug afm, ignighter, cas and tps but the car runs like crap and wont run any better any sign of giving it throttle it wants to die and idols at 2000rpm i have a spare square plug tps and afm should i wire them in or wont see any difference? the tps has 3 wires but the round plug has 2 would this be the problem?

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had the windscreen taken out today it cracked due to stone chip vs bird so took it out and found rust at the bottom of the window not bad at all but i want to sort it before it becomes a problem

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at the same time ill pull the motor and auto box out and ill clean out the engine bay maybe repaint the engine bay still deciding satin black or white

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been a few days sorting the car out decided to get the dash out to but a better one in so may as well get the wiring done and put in a digital climate control at the same time

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as it its at the moment

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havent posted for a long time been so busy lately the car sat as just a chassis with doors no wiring or anything in it for weeks till 3 days ago i cracked into it

things i done

fitted RB20DET

RB20DET gearbox

made gearbox adaptor to move mount to the right place

Nismo clutch pedal

Nismo clutch pivit

Nismo slave

Nismo engine mounts

Nismo gearbox mount

ORC clutch and pressure plate

Exedy flywheel

Non Hicas power steering

tierod spacers

GTS-T LSD and halfshafts

Non hicas rear subframe

cut and welded the factory intercooler holes someone decided to butcher

wired in digital climate control

wired in auto rear vision mirror

reinstalled interior

braided turbo lines

made solid steering bush

i probably did more just cant remember because im very sleep deprived at the moment lol

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