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Old Feb 15, 2011 | 03:45 AM
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The hood is getting painted with the rest of the car, exposed CF is for attention ******.
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Old Feb 16, 2011 | 09:25 PM
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The hood is getting painted with the rest of the car, exposed CF is for attention ******.
You could leave small accents on the hood exposed to show some cf. Just subtle accents.
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 05:49 PM
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 08:03 PM
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nah
Ha just a thought Still going to look good though.
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 08:20 PM
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^ That's kind of ghey. haha :P
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Old Feb 17, 2011 | 08:35 PM
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^ That's kind of ghey. haha :P
to leave accents lol?
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Old Feb 19, 2011 | 08:06 AM
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anyways, back on topic...


Pulled the transmission this morning to have a look at the clutch and flywheel. Turns out both are original, the flywheel has some pitting and rust, and the pressure plate fingers are gouged a bit, so I'll be replacing those and the rear main once they come in. Cleaned up the bellhousing and fork while it was all apart too. Did a little bit of garage straightening while I was at it too.























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Old Feb 20, 2011 | 08:47 AM
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Was just going through the donor car to pull the boost, water temp and oil pressure gauges out along with the pillar pods when I noticed a manual boost controller stuffed on the side of the drivers seat, and the HKS turbo timer I somehow completely missed before.



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Old Feb 21, 2011 | 02:20 PM
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Nice build man... I want to do a 240 build to have a little sideways fun

You got PM
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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 04:47 PM
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Pulled a couple of bits off the motor after dinner today, replaced the plugs while I was at it.

Clutch has seen better days....


Pressure plate is done as well


Flywheel is looking just as bad as the pressure plate


Slight leak on the rear main seal


A few drops made it to the back of the flywheel as well


Plugs show that she was running a little rich, but that's to be expected when the BoV wasn't recirculated

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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 09:12 PM
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What do they normally use to tune it?
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Old Feb 26, 2011 | 06:27 AM
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Burned chips or an Apex'i safc if they go cheap. Usually a stand alone if you're doing it right though. I'm rather partial to the Power FC and AEM's EMS.
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Old Feb 26, 2011 | 10:09 AM
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I would definitely go with a AEM EMS. The right way for sure.
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 01:03 PM
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Time to do the water pump, damn wasps






The old pump has seen better days



Lots of gasket removal



New pump!



Pulley is dirty, rusty, and generally looks like garbage



Woops, forgot to drain the oil before I pulled the motor, now seems like a good enough time




Pulley with fresh paint



New pump is on



Time for the Nismo thermostat



Success!



Everything back together on the front


Finally got around to putting the new lines on the turbo as well



Going to try to motivate myself to get more work done while it's so nice out.
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Old Feb 27, 2011 | 01:10 PM
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looking good man...
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