Skully

Let it roll!


up we go


and over...











Dont get sucked in

FricFrac

Nice! Congrats on dropin 'er in. Can we get some close up pics of your external wastegate setup?

GTR

ooooh, so pretty...definitely more pics ^_^

mrprofile

pretty awesome, engines look so cool big blocks of potential awesomeness lol

SHADY280

wow even brought gypz out of hiding!!!

Skully

Thanks all Im gonna start the wiring soon!
Things i need to buy still

-oil feed and return line, was just gonna use brake line for feed
-assortment of barb fittings for fuel system and some hose
-few fittings for vaccuum to my wastegate, ecu, heater controls etc
-oil filter
-fuel filter

i think thats it for now....
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Fric - the wastegate setup is nothing special, just a tube welded in underneath the hot side of the turbo to the manifold and my wastegate bolted to it.

FricFrac

Still in for pics. Part of my wastegate setup research

Skully

hah k lemme see if i got some from before i put it on..in the meanwhile...the wiring is 90% done! Just gotta test everything, and them run some wire loom to hide everything and make it neato!





Bought a box of heatshrink, makes it so much nicer!!




Gonna make a nice cover for the battery which my relay board and "fusible links" will be mounted to. Im spent for the day lol.

Skully

Well my new goodies came in! high flow pump and new starter, mine had chiped teeth didnt want to chance wrecking a new flywheel.

and in they go...




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So my days off come to an end, i only had 6, i get 13 next go so ill get it running!! I did miss this way too much and forgot how much fun working on Z's was
Few questions in the meanwhile.
since i gutted the carbon canister (not gonna use it) what to do with the extra line? Eh found out you can just put a little filter on it yay

Skully

shameless bump!

on my 2 weeks off so updates incoming!!! first gotta clean up the garage a bit then resume the work.

Skully

so much nicer to work when everything's clean and neat.
Anywho, finished up temporary wiring today for testing purposes, I got spark, my fuel pump primes up. Tomorrow ill finish off the rest of the fuel side, oil feeds, get some oil in it and see what happens! lol!

Skully

whew, well for some reason MS wont burn my code. It reads the board, it connects, and when i burn and verify the code version is random letters and numbers. So im trying to figure that out with the help of ms experts and while i wait i decided to install the fuel pump, finished off the fuel lines and regulator, and finished off oil feed and return for turbo, also cleaned up the wiring, its not PRO but im happy its nice and neat.

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fuel pump


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to edit: gonna try burning firmware with my old pc to see if it works, it has a db9 so i dont have to use the usb to db9 cable which seem to give people issues.

Skully

SUCCESS! switched to my old pc with win 32bit and it flashed firmware and burned all my settings! time to see if this baby will fire up! After i get some gas rofl.

WildmaN

All right man! The anticipation is killing me! Sounds like you are pretty close to hearing it run.

Skully

i know its been too long! I wired my relay board back up and tried cranking it while laptop was hooked up, and everything was on target! Timing, its throwing spark, and injectors are firing and all my cranking parametars seem to be in order! I noticed I messed up on my turbo feed line i need 2 other fittings, 3/16 inverted to 1/8 npt so hope to **** someone has it tomorrow. Also I would like to fab up a quick exhaust just so its not so loud and for my O2 reading, on my trial stages, so im gonna go get some bends tomorrow! At least i heard it crank ! its been like 10 years lol

SHADY280

dang skully, cool beans. its great to see the progress but hurry up!!!!

Skully

almost there buddy!
did ya get your stuff sorted out??

Skully

Guys i give up!! I wasted so much time and money on this, I honestly cant even afford fuel to try and fire this thing up. Here is a video of the car for sale, it doesn't run, i think it might, just gotta afford fuel which i cant, and you can buy it. Im broke to even see it start up after all this work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRxUEfBGzeo







































































































JAYKAY hahahahahahahaha, she fired right up and the fun is just gonna begin !!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EFFIN HOOOOOOOOOOO, its been waaaaay too long haha Its loud but there is no exhaust or anything so, ENJOY!!!! Now to tie up loose ends!

evandubya

nice!!!!!!! Awesome job!

mrprofile

cool, how did you get all those gauges to get readings on your laptop? i wanna try that on my 79

Skully

Thats a program called Tunerstudio, its used to alter parametars on Megasquirt which is what I am using to run the car (ECU).

Bleach

what does "ECU" mean? ...is that a French Canadian term?

mrprofile

ok, thanks i gotta check that out those programs, and to answer bleach's question im pretty sure ECU stands for Engine Control Unit.

Bleach

Thanks man!

Skully

lawlypops!

Well I fabed up an exhaust for it just for temporary purposes, wow she sounds so nice haha! Got some growl to it.