This was all 1 piece I had to cut from another car. I wanted this to be as module as possible.
May 04
Ca18det gets exhaust…
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Feb 25
It starts! a new begining.
Nothing like hearing the motor starting up after sleeping for so many years.
But, transmission I have selected the wrong one as the shaft is sieged and is unable to turn and stops the motor when I let good of the clutch, but she is now becoming to what she was once before and in a better motor setup as well.
est as per last owner over 400whp motor. CA18DET.
Hopefully I’ll get the transmission swapped out and it moving a bit more.
Other plans is I am working on building an Air To Liquid cooler for the innercooler setup and she needs a new battery.
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Nov 23
Project: Fairlady Silvia – is now gone full CA18DET
The project vg30de conversion was a bust, as I grown tired of hacking the ignition just to get it to work with Megasquirt 3.0. Seems that finding related parts and harnesses is alot harder than it used to be. j30 is not wired the same way as the z32 is there for I couldn’t use the harness and I’ve been running into odb2 at the yard.
So instead of spending another 1k or even more just to convert the ignition switch over to an 12+1 setup.
I decided to finally remove the whole V6 concept that it came with and go the ca18det route anyways.
vg30 single over head cams version is not much of a dime a dozen anymore in the yards. I even thought about doing the whole vg34s setup. In the end I have this setup, it was the motor I purchased in 2015ish I wanted to run it and so on so here it is. This is more worth the investment and in the future upgrade to an sr20det.
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Feb 15
200sx SEv6 – Heart Transplant update
Welcome, I am going to try to add more to this entry.
Megasquirt 3 / 3x installed and tested so far. Now
I finally went megasquirt to eliminate any future problems with this car and it’s wiring.
Troubleshooting other various problems internally including the tail lights stuck on potentially a broken headlight switch. (known problem with these cars)
Tuning and learning Tunrerstudio is happening now and will update more on this progress.
Also exhaust found a great and in-expensive solution to my problem.
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Sep 13
Down but not out…
One dream is to get good enough to rock the top 16 of the pro-am series with that will be a ton of breaking and stumbling along the way.
This is engine #2 as I broke the cam shaft + bent all the valves. I also thrown a rod.
I don’t have a spare engine in it’s place so have a full swap that should fit right in with no major issues.
at the same time I lost both my best friend and mother at her young age of 59. I did a full write up here
I am in a rush to finish my brothers 280zx hopefully by this weekend ontop of that I have also acquired a 280zx that I am slowly restoring as a new daily for me.
Hopefully soon I can get this motor swap done and I can get back to drifting and shredding tires and bring in more content.
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Jul 14
Vegas Drift – 07-12-2019 – Much Needed Therapy
Vegas Drift 07/12 The time was here, the storm was closing in from the south side of town but it only lasted an hour as it had no effect on me driving to the track.
Loaded 4 old tires after filling them with 80PSI of pressure. loaded some tools just incase something breaks at the track for a quick fix.
Loaded the jack and other stuff.
The day was fun and as I made it out there at first intention was just to drive the wet course but decided to never mind an go the full course as I had alot of drama kicking in, in the past few days at work and with my own family so I really needed some seat time.
Going out there I stepped into the wet session and was like ok, it’s not that bad and went to the main track once I got over my fear for it and I am glad I did.
Now as I was calling it for the night, I had a major issue that arises near the end. From here I have made a call at 11:30pm – 12 midnight to find a tow, I found 1 and waited over 3 hours to hear they wont make it. I called another one about 2 and half hours in from someone who dragged someone out that night.
They turned off all the lights to the track around 1:30am from there I was being attacked by giant crickets and I watched a Coyote roam around looking for foods while I wait inside the car. At this time it was still over 95F at the track so I am melting from inside this car as I wait tired as can be.
Next day I found out it was the cam gear / shaft is what gave out. This is Drift Life, it was to be expected as this thing has taken alot of abuse in the past. I will rebuild, rinse and repeat.
Here is a few GoPro Clips from the event. (updated, my mom passed away on July 17th this was the last video she seen of me enjoying myself and happy)
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May 17
S12’s on the no carb diet…
A while back I did the full VG30 efi to carb conversion. The project was fun, it was unique and the first s12 with the carb treatment.
But fun part was over, I played with it, nuked a motor with it. toured the las vegas strip with it. Issues I’ve had with it, is always related to the distributor. As it is a custom build from Davis Unified Ignition. It’s alright but it has bugs to work out and I don’t have the patience any more.
So I have reinstalled the EFI system and upgrading it with another new system. Because my goal of this machine is to rock it sideways like I did before and keep going. my goal was to get into Pro-Am and hit it’s top 16 shootout or what ever they call it now. Because of this project I feel so disconnected from my main goal and the fun that follows it. So she will return! returning back to the original glory then upgrade to the j30 motor in the future.
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Sep 01
Starting to stream more at the track…
Greetings, I have been doing alot of twitch streams at the track lately and using stream labs for andoid things has been a bit successful.
Here was the latest video on demand I have done while I was at the last night time vegas drift track.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299126989
I am doing this monthly so be sure if you come here and found this to follow me on twitch as well.
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