ChrisB

I love it - awesome job I really like how all the coloured glossy/satin finishes combine. Very fresh

I seem to remember someone on here was unlucky with blue Samco pipes that went white after a year, too - makes it hard to win sometimes Edit: lots of colours, thread was here.. http://www.350z-uk.com/topic/92774-white-spots-on-samco-coolant-hoses/page__hl__samco

Cheers Andy Evening supercharger nerds - cos it's getting way nerdy in my thread now I've built logging into it now with a standalone serial connected 'ardulogger'. The main board, in addition to reading sensors, calculating conversion and outputting to the multicolour display, now formats the data into ascii-hex strings and writes out to an SD card via the independent logger. I'm developing a companion script (Perl/R) which both emulates the code on the main Arduino for test and development purposes, but also plots results of logs and generates CSV for review. I currently plot the raw values for debug, but there are other possibilities - the most interesting being converted boost vs fuel pressures. I've suspected something weird is happening in my fueling still at top end - and this is showing up nicely in graphs.. Ooo blinking err.. I've got a MAP sensor, so it's (delta values + atmospheric) in the reference line - which common to the BOV, fuel regulator control and MAP sensor. This may be just various lags in a dynamic system - but the relationship does look a bit weird. Early days yet though. We have nice rising pressure with MAP increase as expected, but there's also the fanning out which needs explaining. Sensors are spec'd as linear. Interestingly, also, my Aeromotive is one of the ones that doesn't hold pressure when the pump stops - so cranking is a couple of turns longer than I'd like. I wonder if it's being a bit rubbish Caveat absolute values might be a bit out (so shifted left or right, up or down) - but relative still stands OK.. here's today's commute into work this morning.. mostly cruising not blasting.. Interesting stuff.. Edit: either that or that pesky regulator plug O ring in the fuel bucket is giving me gyp again..

Twin reverses good idea I also have ramp envy..

Nooo... Chubby Ninja - one of the original SC DIYers - so sad for you mate! Glad you are undamaged though

Wow!

Buckinghamshire is a county - Japex are in Hertfordshire (Kings Langley) on the border of Bucks. Try them

Driving? God yeah. But my car is a rolling project - the down side of perpetual DIY

Just a quickie with my ongoing car-ar-due-ino sub-project.. My passenger footwell.. Heat shrunk fixed connector connections ..and semi-plumbed in for test. I've left it here for now for test accessibility. I've roughly stuck the twin AFR meters to the carpet and thrown a big pillow over all the looms and gadgets for now, so I can drive around in it checking functionality. The mini-display has been roughly stuck with double sided tape to the sun visor to see how we get on. Already, fuel pressure and oil temp read spot on ..although analogue wide band AFRs (cross checked against narrow band analogue AFR simulations) seen a bit low compared to the digital displays, so there is an investigation. Probably just need to tweak some software coefficients a bit. The other oddment is that the MAP (boost/vac) sensor connection might be a bit funky - I've always been suspicious of the GM plug they use as it seems not to seat that well. IAT and coolant are only dangling in the engine bay currently, until I get the new port hardware sorted. Not a very good pic, but it's car wires - hey Part of the design is that the Arduino bit is detachable. It will sit in the grey box in Nissan's perfectly designed plug holder which has a slot made for Arduinos (not really - but serendipitous all the same). I connected everything via a 25way D (silver plug/socket) which is on a spur to the fixed/soldered D and installed looms. This means I can service the Arduino and vero-shield, including reprogramming, either in car or in a comfortable indoor room (e.g. couch). I must say (even though it is blowing my own trumpet - and it's at the expense of fighter cockpit appeal), I really like having a general status bar on the mini display going green when all numbers are in acceptable range - and it's easy to see any numbers that are causing a red - because they go red (or white or blue). The idea is multi-channel monitoring instead of trying to drive and read lots of separate gauges at once. Takes the guesswork out of 'is the car warmed up yet?' too. I promise that I'll install the looms and gadgets properly at a later date - not leave it all hanging out In other news, I attempted a bare metal respray of the wiper arms. I hate painting. Did I say I hate painting?

Nice work with the simulation, pics and renta-facilities I'd bet you will ripen to join our supercharger cult in the not too distant future Weeks of installation fun to be had as a DIYer ..join our cult..join our cult..

Awesome skills - hell, I'd had enough doing a bare metal repray of my wiper arms This amount of skilled paintage is epic (and of course the rest of the restore has been top work - great read )

I like that. Your roadster 370 in white is very pleasing on the eye

Are those seat back trays? I suppose the car is big enough to have a cabin crew serve you drinks and nibbles in first class

I'm quite pleased how it is coming on In addition to remaining installation jobs, I need to aluminium-weld a boss on to the intake pipe section for the supplementary intake air sensor next, and possibly get one of those in line sensor ports for the supplementary coolant sensor (probably a smaller bore one for the rising pipe just before the top rad hose). All good fun

Hurrah after 1.5 days of scratching around, I'm half way to sensors completion. Red rain threatens, so I'm binning pushing on for today. First up, strip the passenger panel off. Caverns of room in there since there is no glove box.. If you find mysterious tiny weeny cross head screws on your passenger's floor mat - this is where they come from Now, all the wires have to go through this very important grommet. It is vital that this is not ruined as it is the only thing that stops rain getting into the cabin through the firewall - and it is quite exposed to the elements under the plastic cover First up - start fitting remaining sensors though - got side tracked as I noticed a very slight oil weep from one of the Mishimoto oil cooler banjo joints.. nip that up a bit.. Fitted the AFR sensors to the Fast Intentions HFCs - I had them made with the extra sensor port options - and route and tie all the plugs and cables nice and neatly Bored with banging my nose on the under side (my old jack won't lift the car past 2 axle stand notches - new one on the list), I decide to checkout the contents of my most fantastic Mishimoto PCV/plenum side catch can.. (it has been at least 2500 miles since I last looked) The bronze filter downstream is fresh as a daisy - no clogging there This is what came out of the can. Definitely a good purchase Back to wiring ...oy vey Loads more wires in the grommet now. Highly tedious threading it all through BTW - the mastic in the boot is the stickiest substance known to man it seems All wired in. Plenty of room for the battery - the bump conduits all sit in natural runs around the battery, under the battery plate and up the side of the IPDM. Yes the short loom in the middle was a mistake but it is fine where it is.. Which leaves it here for today. I am probably going to nibble the metal in the battery housing to make more room for the 5 conduits to pass under the plastic rather than vandalise the plastic. I'll run a bit of edge protector rubber round the cut edges too. A different day for that though - I need to get the right tool first. Just the spaghetti the other side.. I couldn't resist a quick play, so I connected the power and control line to the terminals of my sub-amp. Power is via a relay, fuse and diodes. I have my project display and a couple of digital AFR gauges - which can be replaced for serial logging. I will be using them initially to set my mini display device up. Boot-up = Banzi Ultimately I will put the mini display here. It is protected from sunshine, nice and clear and in line of site. It can also be put out of the way if need be. None of the values are correct yet as I have to attend to the soldering in of the spaghetti though

+3 for EBC YELLOWstuff here too on a fast road going car. I'd recommend that the EBC BSD disks are good too. Conventional wisdom is the DS2500/T3 combo for a more track bias, but if you are predominantly road / daily driver, EBC is fine IMHO. I imagine Hawks are similar to EBC.

And another wild one - you did your plugs recently too yes? - was there any oil in the plug tubes that could have found its way into the cylinders? Might be just a temporary little pool burning off inside the decat exhaust as it gets hot - maybe

I know.. painfully tempting isn't it Mid-Scotland might as well be driving to the North Pole for us southerners though.. This and the CF hump bonnet ..arggh.. temptations..

I've got a screwdriver with a '70s telescopic aerial thing built in with a magnet in the end - lifesaver - so I know where you are coming from. Dropping a washer into your oil tube though

Ah yes Dremeling - I bought one a few weeks back. I modded my cover with a hacksaw, side cutters and a file originally - after Dremeling some other things, Dremel = cool (except on alloy wheels - that didn't go so well ) I know, my cover isn't bad, but blingy carbon fibre , or pretty paint.. but then again, my with painting skills.. EPR CF looks a better bet #copygranville

It's spring! Got a couple of days off too.. time to crack on with a few remaining jobs.. so here's a micro update. My car has been running great, so obviously, I want to take it to bits again Firstly, my knob got a new bag.. I rather like alacantra / ultra suede Bought a couple of (blue alu) replacement 3/8 NPT to 5/8 hose fittings for ccv side can number deux.. original fittings (nylon) are a bit small for the Vortech breather pipe. I'm not sure it's going to fit at the moment, but hey ho, might as well pursue the enhanced PCV folly. Might as well give these a bit of attention On to the main reason for dismantling - fitting my sensors Spaghetti again Are we there yet? I hope it doesn't rain tonight - all my plastic covers are still off, ready for a proper go at it tomorrow... I can't decide - leave the old engine cover as-is, paint it some garish combination of red and silver, or bin it for an EPR carbon fibre jobby... ??

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Chants: Join our cult.. Join our cult.. (DIY s/c that is) -or- flap, flap, flap... vulture gracefully lands next to Zed carcass.. Chargespeed rear bumper you say? quizzical stare - ooooOOOOoooo.. flap, flap, flies away circling, waiting to see if Zed lives on or not..

Have to agree - when I saw the gaping chasm left by the Mishi fan shroud in the pic above, I thought, meh, needs a Vortech Easy FI kit to self fit BTW - rude not to

Dare I say it - needs a stubby, lowering and spacers