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Hey in my defense i used to be able to spell but after two combat deployments and 2 seperate TBI incidents i blame the usmc lol.

Anyhow, today i got some good stuff done. I got all the parts with liquid gaskets and removed all the remaining liquid gasket and refinshed the flanges. Broke down my hydralic lifters and they are soaking as i type this. finished the paintwork i decided to do with high heat engine enamel in gloss black on the coilpack brakets and some small parts that make up the throttle body assembly. I have one pic of the coilpacks finished and reassembled but its so dark it doesnt do them justice. Hopefully ill finish up the oil pan tomorrow and can sand down and re spray the bottom exterior of it and will be able to degrease and grime the remaining coolant lines i have left from the plenum and throttle body coolant line delete. Did alot of research for better understanding of the reassembly and the best order to do it all in when i found the coolant line bypass, i wish i would have no about that a long time ago. ne ways heres the pic

they look like new in person but the lighting sucks in this pick so you cant see the detail sorry

today i got back to rebuilding my lifters which is prooving to be a pain as i am having alot of difficulty getting inside of the housing. Any suggestions would be great. Im thinking a dental pic will work nicely. Wasnt able to work as much as i would like, girlfriend is sick but the machine guy said next weekend he should be finished with my block and heads soooo my spirits are still high

Only thing i got done today on my Z was get the EGR flanges on my new chrome plenum done. i spent most of the weekend helping a buddy of mine with his Z. He has a yellow 350Z. nice kid, to scared to work on his own stuff and has also suffered masive scams because he fails to do his own reseearch. For some reason it was throwing a crank alignment or something code. Anyway after pulling the tranny and re alighning the flywheel i descoved tbere was nothing krong, or atleast it seemed. Cleaned the MAF instilled a simple ram air intake cause he and his frineds couldnt figure out it was backwards and wala it was cured and he payed me back with dinner. Pretty sweet deal considering i got along of experience out of it and realised im getting kinda good at this lol.

Very nice work on the 350!

This past week I drove the Z down to Charleston and back, smooth as ever (5 hr drive each way). Got back on Thursday night, drove to work on Friday, everything fine. Saturday morning went to pick up my daughter at her friend's house and immediately upon starting up I knew something was wrong. Had the shakes bad, low on power, figured my I'd lost an injector.

Possibly relevant - Weather was fine down in Charleston, Friday going to work was a little wet, but Saturday was much wetter and colder so I thought maybe the humidity had gotten to some of my connectors. Did a very preliminary check of the connectors (push/pull) when I got back Saturday morning, backed the car into the garage to sit for a while with the hood up before I could check it out.

Fortunately (or unfortunately?) the problem disappeared as when I fired it up later Saturday after sitting in the garage with the hood up, it ran smooth as ever. So I either have a connection that doesn't like high humidity or a failing injector....

I installed my Woody short shifter (a guy on TT.NET makes them) and I also installed my HKS SSQV BOV's.

yesterday i cleaned up the turbos, and today i finshed cleaning the remainder of the parts, minus the dust build up on the flywheel which i will get to right before i put it back on. Packed up everything to go to the shop to build the block, and machined out the front bridge to make install of the newer style injectors possible on the chrome plenum and welded up the egr holes. Also installed the barb fittings to the intake valve covers and re attached the inner shields for the PCV valve re route. Hopefully as soon as tomorrow i could start putting my block together, but at the latest i should be starting on the internals friday.

tinkered around a bit more.. i have a HUGE leak now
that releases pressure after 1.5psi. with the car running, it sounds like a hose blown or something not connected when letting off the thrott.
instead of my BOVs honking, you can hear it pshhh out the rear of the engine

May not need soapy water for that... How about confetti?

i was thinking of baby powdering it.. dunno how bad it would stick though. im dreading the mess.

Yesterday i finished cleaning and re mounting the fmic. Today i replaced my brakes with some new pads and adjusted my e-brake and remounted the front bumper. Tomorrow i hope to finish up degreasing some parts of the wiring harness and clean up the starter as well as anything else i can find to do such as touch up the engine bay with some zip ties in those areas that are hard to get to. Sunday i hope to get my engine back and get to building it up and hopefully by wednesday ill have it dropped back into the car....only time will tell.

Where did you get your pads? I need new rear pads (street only)....