i just made sure the car cover was staying on in the high winds today :-/

got the motor out and completely stripped for machine work. Just waiting on my tax return and the parts to show up and not to mention the machine work to be finished to start re assembling her for the tedious re installation i plan on doing. I decided to delete egr do the pcv falve re route woody from tt.net posted and completely remove the rest of my hicas system install a na power steering pump and resourvoir as well as remove the ac system. loosing some weight as well as making some much needed space in the engein bay. we shall see how she goes

walked out into the garage, scratched my head and shrugged. i kicked the tires and walked back inside...

drove it to work!

ahhhh its nice seeing the wideband smack in the middle now at @14.5 when cruising.

damn you brandon, im going to sneak into your garage and make that bitch run and your going to hate yourself when i steal it.

today i began prepin my plenum for powercoat as well as the valve covers. drilled out the guts and tapped in the pcv re route stuff i got. They still need to be cleaned ALOT but after seeing what i have to do and actually getting some stuff done i feel good about how its going to come together

filled the tank and added some injector cleaner..

made sure the cleaner was blasting away any grime by making a few 'spirited' runs @
180 kph(= 111.846815 mph)

Z is feeling mighty fine.

dyno will tell whats really going on..

learned what my AIR REGULATOR was. where it was and how to remove/disassemble it.

why did i do all that?

ThiS leak-


a little trick used from work.. using squirts of soapy water to find an air leak.

this is what it looks like w/o the mess


WTF is that orange stuff?!?!? looks like someone tried to seal it before.. now i know why!
http://www.zenthusiast.net/fourth-gen-300zx-z32-f1/air-regulator-t522.htm#5778

took the plenum, and exhaust valve covers to the body shop on base today and got my buddy justin to weld up my egr valve ports and screw holes as well as the driver side exhast valver cover pcv valve ports after i removed the elbows from the alluminum. I then took a 60 grit grinding wheel and an air grinder and dringed the egr flanges and the exess alluminum off the welds to smooth and began sanding on the plenum and valve covers to prep for power coat. Oh yea and i removed all the casting lines and circles from the plenum you can see when its assembled.

ordered all the parts today thanks to Tony for the incredible deals. Hopefully the weather will warm up this week and i can finish up the prep work for my plenum and valve covers so i can get them powder coated, and hopefully tomorrow ill pull off my old rear brake hard line in the engine bay and get another one made so i actually have rear breaks

Walked out side, stared, shed a tear and got in the altima

well today, i finisehd the complete HICAS delete. I was hateing life when i had to remove the hard lines that run above the sub frame. Removed the front bumper and front mount and moved the B&M oil cooler back to where the AC condensor and fan used to be to make more room for the doolz (Tonys idea). Cleaned the dog piss out of the empty engine bay so when all the nice shiney new parts go back in it is basicly brand new. and recieved a whole bunch of goodies in the mail. Z1 58 mm throttle bodies should be here tomorrow and next week all my engine internals and gaskets, na radiator and brackets, NA power steering pump, billion thermostat, 3rd brake light, nismo pilot bearing, bla bla bla should be here.

here is a pic for your viewing pleasure

you don't need those mike smith mani's..I'll take those off your hands i figured out and got rid of a power steering leak that's plagued me for yrs.and found out that i have zero traction now.