Skully

Well, I have been gone such a long time away from home, working etc. Recently I got a new job where I can work in the other province but live here at home! Now granted my expenses will go up since im taking over the house, but i will be around for 2 weeks off at a time, next to my z! As soon as I start this new rotation I have to see how my account levels off with all the bills and then the play money is going straight into the car.

I
CANT
WAIT!!!!

SportBikeMike

Sounds good!

WildmaN

Awesome Skully! I was wondering when you would start working on the Z again. Now we can see some progress more often. Keep it up, and good luck man.

Skully

thanks buddy! I cant wait to get settled back into this place and start collecting few final parts and getting her wraped up! I miss my hobbies!!!

NismoPick

w00t! It's nice when things work out!

Skully

Ya i wish i never left but money does strange things! I heard you were selling your z?

NismoPick

Meh... I kid about it... but if I was offered the right price, I would sell it. I drive it probably 60 minutes a year.

Skully

More then me well i hope you get no offers!!! hehe in a good way you know what i mean!

SHADY280

great to here skully. sounds like a sweet job. i need one of those. take lots of pics or it didnt happen. lol

Skully

hehe, just ordered a clutch kit and a flywheel, nothing special but it will get the engine in the bay, thats the only thing i need to put her in.

in the meanwhile..
I looked in the bay I want to gut all the harness out, since I wont be using stock ecu, I have to trace which wires are for gauges lights etc and which is all the ecu crap...so many wires!

icice9

Glad your back Skully!!!!

Skully

Thanks ice! hows the car !?

Well dusted of my haynes to see the wiring diagram and what I can rip out, lol the back of it was covered with something and all the pages disintegrated i dont know what fluid spilled on it. Oh well thank god for internet archives! ah let the good times roll

Skully

Well gutted out the old ecu and pulled the harness off, still an asston of wiring left in there, I hate wiring, does anyone have a simplified wiring diagram just for the harness for gauges, headlights, washers, injector fan etc etc so I can keep ripping stuff out? I was trying to follow the whole wiring schematic and just go crosseyed

Thanks!!

SHADY280

just leave the compenents in the car you want to keep. then start by peeling all the loom off the harness and tape. find the ends of the connectors you dont want and pull them back thru the harness to where ever they terminate. no diagram needed really. id get the car running first, that way you can remove all the stuff you dont want and run the car to make sure it didnt effect anything. dont wanna remove something that makes the car run then scratch your head wondering what happened. i just did ms on my car, took out the ecu harness. on the pass side where the fusable links are is a plug, turns out the ecu partly controls the ignition relay, so i had no power to the coil!!! i traced it for an hour or so.

skittle

Nice to see you back,

go to www.xenons130.com/reference and download the free FSM it will have the wiringing diagrams for you in there.

Skully

Thanks both, ill get that downloaded. Shady, all im gonna use is the gauges, everything to run the motor will be added on, I have msns and harness made. I might have to pull the dash again then and see whats not needed, you dont need ac, injector fan, hood light, etcetc to run the engine :P. I did notice the same plug and fusible links are hooked into it, it goes into ignition and ecu that must be what you are reffering to. How was ms to set up for ya?

edit: just wanna clean up the bay before putting the engine in thats all.

Skully

Thanks a lot skittle!!! The wiring in the FSM is so much easier to follow because it breaks down each section instead of looking at the whole car at one! Thanks again this is gonna make life way easier

SHADY280

ms so far was ok, still cant get this thing to run. when the harness comes out for the stock ecu it controls fuel pump relay #1 and if you add power to the black w/white it fires up the fuel pump. my mallory dizzy i got seems to be not sending a signal to the ms. im replacing the optical unit inside becuase i think its screwed. i tested it and its got nothing when mounted, but work out of the car, so i think it has a short. ill see how the new one works. a bit frustrating not having it even burp and run.

Skully

haha yah i got a world of tinkering around with it before mine even burps, but one day at a time. Thanks for the tip, im sure ill be asking alot of questions when I get her turning over.

Skully

So clutch kit/flywheel is here and ordered relay board, cables and sensors for the ms install. Hopefully next set of days off I can throw the engine in and start the wiring process!!

SHADY280

pix or it didnt happen lol good luck, too bad you werent closer

Skully

haha oh ill put up pix once i get going ! Cant wait!

Skully

Got my relay board, sensors and cables in right before days off! Heading home tomorrow and try and get as much done as i can ! Brace yourself for pics!

Skully

Soooo got home finaly, garage is full of crap i need to clean badly..

no shes not in yet.

BUT, I went out and ordered a starter, and totally forgot to get an oil pump, so ordered that bad boy too. I looked everywhere for fuse blocks, I swear when you ask someone they get a blank stare. So I went to wallmart and bought individual ones, bolted them and wired them in, just gotta finish wiring to the car now. Threw the alternator on and engine mounts, and some coolant fittings, gotta drill and tap the thermostat housing to fit the GM temp sensor.

Tomorrow I am going to rent an engine hoist and attempt to throw this thing back in. Then start the wiring and getting the MS running and other odds and ends while i wait for starter and the oil pump.

some pics

fusible links to maxi fuse.




MS and wiring harness and relay


jumper for FIDLE to IGN trigger.



Few more things to go on, but I can do that while its in the engine bay, screw it.



ANd tomorrow hopefully IN THERE!!!

WildmaN

Sweet man, looking good! You will get there. Keep up the good work! Keep it coming.