SOLID-orange » 240SX http://solid-orange.com Twistedsymphony's Playground Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:13:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 S14 LS1 Work Photodump http://solid-orange.com/692 http://solid-orange.com/692#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:13:06 +0000 twistedsymphony http://solid-orange.com/?p=692 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.

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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.

]]> http://solid-orange.com/687/feed 0 Speakers and Door Cards http://solid-orange.com/664 http://solid-orange.com/664#comments Sun, 23 May 2010 22:58:05 +0000 twistedsymphony http://solid-orange.com/?p=664 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.

]]> http://solid-orange.com/664/feed 0 Leaky Transmission http://solid-orange.com/659 http://solid-orange.com/659#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 16:25:20 +0000 twistedsymphony http://solid-orange.com/?p=659 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.

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It looks like 3 distinct leaks (possibly more. At least 2 of the sensors are leaking.

]]> http://solid-orange.com/659/feed 0 Sikky Sway Bar http://solid-orange.com/644 http://solid-orange.com/644#comments Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:10:08 +0000 twistedsymphony http://solid-orange.com/?p=644 I finally got around to installing the Sikky Sway bar on my S14 it fits AWESOME and this thing is beefy as hell…

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fogs

]]> http://solid-orange.com/590/feed 0 Silvia Parts! http://solid-orange.com/502 http://solid-orange.com/502#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:49:03 +0000 twistedsymphony http://solid-orange.com/?p=502 I just got some S14 Silvia goodies in today… these will be going on the S14 once the LS1 swap is running.

JDM S14 Kouki Silvia SE Gauge Cluster

JDM S14 Kouki Silvia SE Momo Steering Wheel

]]> http://solid-orange.com/502/feed 0 Snow http://solid-orange.com/497 http://solid-orange.com/497#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:42:20 +0000 twistedsymphony http://solid-orange.com/?p=497 With the cars tucked away…

2 240sx in the Garage

the Warthog will play…

Isuzu Vehicross "Warthog"

…and I should really get to finishing this project…

Corvette LS1 240sx Engine Bay

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