Twistedsymphony’s Playground
Over the last few weeks I’ve been spending time here and there just tying up lose ends on the S14… basically just going over every litt inch of the engine bay with a fine tooth comb making sure everything is put together correctly and tucked out of the way.
I started on the drivers side and I’m working my way across the engine bay. the passer’s side still has a few days worth of work left in it before I’ll be happy with it.
Last weekend I finally got around to fixing the convertible. I got a spare fuel rail from the Fujii boys and replaced the #1 injector.
That’s what I found when I pulled the cap off. The little metal washer had rusted right to the pin on top of the injector. While I was in there I changed the fuel filter and the spark plugs too. The car is now running better than it has since I bought the thing.
Since I’ve been driving the 240 convertible every day I decided to order some speakers to replace the stock ones. I ordered some 4×6 Alpines for the front and some6.5″ Kenwoods for the rear.
Today I decided to tackle the front speakers, it was way more work taking off the door panels than I had anticipated (mostly due to the convertible seatbelt assembly)
While I had the door panels off I decided to fix the door inserts. a common problem on the convertibles is that this fall off, they’re stapled from the factory, and since you basically pull on these whenever you close the door they don’t hold up. I pulled all the staples and used some really short screws, it held on nice and snug now and I’d suspect it will last quite a bit longer than the staples did.
So the 5-speed in the convertible has been a little noisy lately. I decided to flush and fill the transmission fluid, when I got under the car however this is what I found.
It looks like 3 distinct leaks (possibly more. At least 2 of the sensors are leaking.
I finally got around to installing the Sikky Sway bar on my S14 it fits AWESOME and this thing is beefy as hell…
Here are a bunch of photos for the wiring harness conversion, it’s a lot more simple than it looks, if you can wire a car-stereo than you can do an engine harness, there are just a lot more wires and you need to do a bit more digging to determine what goes where.
Why do I seem to have the worst luck when buying car parts… I seriously think the post office hates me.
I just got some S14 Silvia goodies in today… these will be going on the S14 once the LS1 swap is running.
With the cars tucked away…
the Warthog will play…
…and I should really get to finishing this project…
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