thought i'd share the mess i've been dealing with and where she's at now. guess i'll start from the top. so when i got this car there was ALOT wrong with it. and by ALOT i mean ALOT. so far i've spent over 50 hours rewiring this car just so i don't burn to the ground driving down the street. i find it hard to believe that someone could talk sooooo much s*** to me and actually have the balls to tell me not to ****** rig the gauges in the car i gave him then hand me this piece of work. first things first...here's some of the before shots....... this is the kind of wiring i've been dealing with. notice the HUGE main UNFUSED power wires bolted together with nothing more then a loose rag keeping them from shorting to ground. and the power wire going through the firewall with a grommet that's way too small rubbing against bare metal hole, and the smaller one running between the main grommet and metal? oh..and that one is for the amp. so he ran a power wire from the back of the car to the front to hook up to the main wire going to the battery which is in the truck. instead of jsut running the amp wire across the trunk to the battery. wire ties for radiator mounts half asses twisted together and taped wires for the fan controller (they melted by the way from arcing against each other) gauges that didn't even work cause something as simple as power and ground not being hooked up right not to mention numerous other wires all being twisted and losely taped (including main ecu power wires and sensor wires) no wonder this thing ran like s*** it only made 180 whp on the dyno when i first got it...... here is a simple after pic since doing alot of rewiring. alot more has been rewired correctly since this picture too new radiator mounts now we get to the fun...where i've made a mess of things. had to do an oil change and the filter is in such a pita place that i decided to do an oil relocation kit and cooler at the same time so i only have to get under there once. needed to pull the manifold for a radiator breather anyway. just waiting on the thermostat to get here so i can put it in and the oil system is done some of you may have already read my timing belt thread but here goes anyway...while i had it apart i decided to take a look at the timing belt b/c i had a sneaking suspision something wasn't right....well guess what...i was right...several things were wrong....first off the belt was WAAAAAAAY too tight. so tight the idler pulley took the top layer of the belt off and caked it on the pulley. next there were some metal shavings on the tensioner pulley. i took it off and noticed the conical washer was on backwards. my guess is that let the tensioner pulley wobble which is bad for the internal bearing. last but not least the crank timing gear was on BACKWARDS!!!! this means there was no timing mark to line the belt up to when installing. WTF!!!!! oh...and the tensioner pulley has groves in it i can feel with my fingernail...all from the belt being too tight. again...WTF!!!! major mods on the car are wisco pistons eagle rods jun crank collar n1 oil pump oem water pump greddy ic and intake manifold Spearco meth injection setrab oil cooler Apexi PFC Greddy 60mm boost + EGT Innovative lm1 + lma3 gr+ pro coilovers es subframe bushings DIF billet differential bushings z32 30mm front brakes waiting to be installed or in process power enterprise timing belt apexi avc-r gt35r tial 44mm greddy radiator breather w/ WR overflow upgraded fuel lines and billet top feed rail with supra 550's greddy catch can i'm sure i forgot some stuff....oh yeah...also had some stuff powdercoated!
just about there
and the before and afters! just need to readjust the timing belt, then it's time for the 35r!