BIT LATE TO THE PARTY ON THIS ONE BUT AM DOING A CA18DET INTO MY KE30 AND HAVE BASICALLY FININSHED JUST DOWN TO THE WIRING .CAN ANYONE HELP ? 

I don't KNOW WHICH WIRES TO "CUT? FROM THE KE30 AND WHICH ONES TO JOIN THEM WITH ON THE CA18DET ECU?? 

While i have the engine out of the car i decided it's time to fit the scatter shield to the gearbox. No chance, no room.  My tunnel is stocko except for the bellhousing area that was slightly modified.  

So yeah the right time to create the clearance required while the motor is out.  

 

So that's where I'm up to.  

Nice work, must of been hard getting in at different angles with the tig. What amps did you have it set at?

Thanks mate, 38 amps, start around 28 if you're still getting the hang of it as you need to move quick at that level. I run a short tungsten and short back to get in the tighter spots, need a decent helmet mostly as it still needs to work in awkward pistons half blocked.  

Edited August 18, 20188 yr by oh what a nissan feeling!

Looking sweet Matt, out of curiosity what et are you teching it for?

Cheers, tech is for the bracket of 10.5 to 8.5. Modern cars with 4 wheel disk and an airbag can go 10.0 without tech though.  Parachute required at 140 mph so i won't need that for a little while yet. 

Thats some quality looking sheetwork.

On 8/19/2018 at 8:23 AM, oh what a nissan feeling! said:

Cheers, tech is for the bracket of 10.5 to 8.5. Modern cars with 4 wheel disk and an airbag can go 10.0 without tech though.  Parachute required at 140 mph so i won't need that for a little while yet. 

Was thinking that would be the bracket that you were going for. Had no idea about the extra leniency on air bag cars though, good info to know. A mustang work sponsors, dipped a bit under that and he was surprised at how much more is needed for it. 

God I'd love to see this with a split mono leaf setup, a VE head and 50psi from a gtx35!!! I'll stop trying to spend your money right now.. 

Lol yep would love to! Just went to jamboree a week or two ago was pretty awesome and inspiring, maybe even an unpredictable change to the car coming in the distant future will see.  

Getting there been doing too much mtb and not enough assembling car. New crossmember made and painted Scratched up the firewall installing the engine, so got the scratched up bits in undercoat. Got brake booster reconditioned cos it no longer worked, and got it in undercoat today. Also been fixing up a factory steering wheel for my bros hr, got it in undercoat today after fixing all the cracking Have started installing the new carpet in the front, i actually put some silver insulation stuff under it this time Shifter mounted up on the brand new tunnel. New tranny coolers required, i made the old one from a wrx radiator, apparently couldn't handle the 30ish psi line pressure. Brand new cams and rocker arms so redid the shims, took ages but they are good now. Installed a wall rattler in the shed too as the humidity here has been crazy, it works really well, its a pretty big unit.

Edited January 25, 20197 yr by oh what a nissan feeling!

Nearly there, battery is a bit down on charge so no start today. Finished that steering wheel too, looks mint. Repco stock this zinc stuff, so put some in the oil to help the cams bed in Beer That is all, maybe start tomorrow.

Looking surgically clean Matt, well done.

 

The car yes, the garage....not so much. 

great work though:D

Cheers men, I'm real happy with it. Garage is a mess, using the excuse will clean up once it's going 😁

 

So tried to start it, couldn't find the charger for the dirty old shed laptop. Ended up half flat battery and dug up the charger, no rpm signal on the screen.  Checked cas, had a wire pulled out. Fixed that, car started and set the timing up properly. Down a cylinder though.

 

  Bit of checking stuff and it turns out one of the Bosch 2200s is seized up. My own fault, I never let them sit for more than 3 weeks without putting them in a jar of petrol, this time I left them for 3months! It takes 5 minutes to pull them out 🙄

 

Anyways, it has been soaking all week and hasn't freed up yet, so yep, 4 cylinders is barely enough, 3 is just sad.😌