Wiring always takes forever, i've been avoiding a wire-tuck/rearrangement on my car because it always takes 2x what you think it will

 

That is for damn sure. I went into it thinking I'd have it sorted out, soldered and installed no problem this weekend. A guy can dream right?

 

we're all car guys and we all have that same dream, about the only thing that ever takes the time I expect it to is an oil change

I need to do some wiring so I can get my EGT and secondary wideband installed

 

I do not envy you for having to wire that all up! But I hate wiring so I may be a bit biased Making good headway though!

 

Harness is pretty much finished. Just need to tie it into the fuel pump relay and wideband so once I have it back in the car it *should* be smooth sailing. That's if my wiring works

Wiring LSX coils for full sequential is quite a pain in the ass BTW!

 

Really good work man
I hope you keep the outside sweaty it'll make a good sleeper. As soon as you open the hood the people who need to know will respect all this hard work you've done.

 

You know what helps wiring? Wearing shoes the only reflective paint there and boom there are your feet

 

No way man. It's far too warm for shoes lol

 

It's bittersweet really. Any time I'm at an event with it, nobody pays it any mind. It's completely ignored. They'll will all be humping the lowered 350z with wheels that is other wise stock. Nature of the game I guess. However at the track its the opposite. Once I rip off a pass everyone is like WTF is this witchcraft?

 

I love that feeling though but i dont usually want to talk to someone drooling over a lowered 350z

 

I mean I like 350z's obviously but it's like come on now I have more time and custom parts invested in my tranny swap alone than a cookie cutter 350z. Sometimes it irritates me lol

 

Im not hating on the 350z just the people who wouldnt give the time to ask you about your car or check it out because its not on pf01's with stretched tires

I love sleeper cars, to me thats what its all about, let the haters hate they will learn the hard way. Smart people and real car guys will see your car and want to know whats what the cookie cutter 350z guys will never care, but it will still be fun showing them taillights on your way to the freight train .

 

This is true. I definitely enjoy putting trains on unsuspecting Mustangs and such.

 

Sleeper cars are awesome, which is why I like to cobalt I normally go around car shows and look for cars like this because they get no attention so I have a better chance of finding out what actually has been done. Although I do run into a few douches that paid someone to do all the work and then they won't say a word about what has been done

 

Got a bit more done today. Got the harness fished through the firewall and routed where it needs to go and plugged in to almost everything. I still have to run it under the carpet in the car to Megasquirt. I think it looks pretty good for my first ever attempt at a harness. Hopefully it works!

Also got some silicone radiator hoses. Only the top 2 fit. The bottom one does not. Likely because I've moved the radiator some. I'll just get a standard lower hose I guess and put some pretty loom over it or something I guess.

 

can wait to see vids of this thing! awesome work man!

 

Thank you sir. I can't wait to have it running.

 

click

 

Only got a little work done today. Got the wideband tied into the Megasquirt harness now. Had a fun time hunting down the wires for the wideband. We installed it like 7 years ago and put the output wires "were we wouldn't lose them" in case I decided to tie it into something later... Took me a while but I found them lol

I have the fuel pump relay wire routed to the relay but then I got rained out. Hopefully the rain will hold off tomorrow so I can get that finished. Then I need to mount my fuse block and wire it in, then it's lay the carpet back down, bolt Megasquirt down. After that it's misc stuff to button up. It's getting close to first start.

 

Busy day today. Took the day off work to get all the little stuff tidied up. Engine bay is done with exception of, hanging the starter. I'm still waiting on my custom dizzy cap and plenum cover too. In the future maybe some catch can revisions. New fuse block for Megasquirt is in stalled, Megasquirt mounted and plugged in other than the fuel pump relay. Right now I'm working on installing my new boost and oil pressure gauges. So in the morning I'll finish up installing those. In the morning it is hang the starter, get the fuel pump relay wired put the dash back together then connect the laptop to Megasquirt and get that sucker configured and attempt first start.

 

How do you like the fuel lap pressure regulator? Just curious, just bought the OTTP return kit.

Cars coming along nice.

 

Mine is an Aeromotive 1000-6. Probably the same thing though.

 

This car of mine... I swear it likes to screw with me. Finally get to the point to crank it over to see if it builds oil pressure (I've had pump priming issues in the past), I have no ignition power at all... So after about 2 hours of chasing wires we isolate it down to the fusible links, turns out I damaged one somehow so w replaced it. Now it turns over. Turn it over, no damn oil pressure. Seems the new pump is not priming even though I dumped oil in it, the pick up, the filter... Spent a good hour trying to get pressure with no luck. Figure screw it move on to the fuel pump come back to the oil pressure later. Exactly zero power is going to the fuel pump relay. Chase some more wires around. Looks like the factory EFI harness is responsible for routing power to it. Well it has been eliminated from the system. Great, so wired up a stand alone relay for it. It also looks like my turbo timer **** the bed too.... That was my day today lol.

It will fire tomorrow or bust!

 

Best of luck, keep us updated.

 

Thank you sir. About to fight for oil pump prime right now!