Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

gbrettin

Had a few minutes of downtime and I'm waiting on some parts for my car... SOooooOOoo I sand. and sand and sand. The left side is nearly roughed in where I want. I think I came to the conclusion that I will only use the mold for vacuum bagging so I need the areas rounded out so I can pop the part out easier. I am still going to pour a B side of the mold so I can bond it to the A side. If you feel like I've posted this part a lot... Imagine sanding it for hours. lol

Picture of the work environment...Was wearing gym clothes, I get hot.

gbrettin

I made a trip out to Lane Automotive, basically it's Summit or Jegs with in driving distance of me. Nick (shop owner) and I came up with a list of -3 and fittings to take care of my brake issues. Crazy, we nailed down the correct length and fittings the first time... well, minus one -3 that was 12" too short. If anyone has done plumbing... you know this doesn't happen often.

When I get back to the shop, we (he did) laid out the -3 loosely to where they should go. The brake booster has two -3 fittings coming out of it. The front brakes have a single line that go into line lock. The line lock splits the line into two front brake lines. The rear works similar but has a T fitting that splits the fluid (no line lock for obvious reasons).

The engine bay looks officially over ran at this point and needs clean up. Honestly, it's not THAT bad compared to VQ using every ounce of space. Ill tuck the lines so they are not hanging all over. I'm super happy about not bending brake lines too. I like the idea of replacing a -3 segment vs bending line. Well, I'll have hardline if I want to try doing something with that in the future. Also, a lot of the wiring can likely be thinned out still (later work).

Not pretty... but here it is:

sirnixalot

Ah wiring, the most fun part of any project.

I have these that work awesome with the Z AC lines. My forearm got scratched from me looking at the cut lines
https://www.greatnecksaw.com/a-c-spr...oupling-tool-1

At least your bay is jam packed for a reason this time, also you're keeping it OEM since Nissan loves to pack 10lbs of "stuff" in a 5lb sack

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gbrettin

Sirnixalot - I ordered those greatneck tools you pointed out. Thanks. Deep down having those bent lines annoyed me but not enough to take it off previously.

Brake lines are all done with the exception of one line for the driver's side front wheel. The line I originally had was too short by two inches. I ordered another -3 line that was longer, but the ends were -4. Oopps. I have another one ordered so it should be here pretty soon, probably on Tuesday July 5th.

I did notice that there are black rubber coated lines AFTER I ordered all my -3 lines.... god that is annoying. The current -3 lines are like little saws that are F'ing up the engine bay paint. I need to tape the lines with felt so it doesn't buzz saw everything.

Aside from that, I adapted all the pipe and thread lines to AN on the master cylinder and on the line where the hardline use to be.

Rusty

Greg, after seeing the car the other day. Great job. But it's going to take you a month of Sundays to clean it.

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gbrettin

LMAO yeah... she is BEYOND dirty. I can't wait to detail it

For inquiring minds... There was a Z meetup at Madwi's place in W Michigan. A group of people came out to visit Auto Dynamix, where my Z is, to check the build out. I was legitimately getting pumped up with adrenalin because I was so excited people could see the car 97% together. Yeah, I'm odd... but it made my day!

Rusty

We know you're odd and weird. Just ask the tour guide at the Gilmore Car Museum about you.

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gbrettin

Did some brain storming at Madwi's/Scott's place on July 3rd and saw that the manual trim ring was much shorter than the auto ring. Madwi is converting his interior over to black so he was able to spare me his bezel. Thanks dude! After getting very aggressive hacking the plastic out of the underside (probably more than needed). The AT blank needs to be glued into the empty hole... unless I want to add something from billet automotive button in there... hmmm.
https://billetautomotivebuttons.com/

I was able to get the manual shift ring in. WOW! it looks amazing and allows for perfect function! The red lever also sits above the bezel too! Only thing I will need to do is put some leather in.... Later of course (over winter so I can have some leather sewn up. I'll worry about the blank hole later too.

XRP drain lines and line for ethanol sensor to filter came in. The Fitting couldnt spin in-between the turbo and up pipe. Nothing that a bench grinder couldn't solve. If you can't grind a 100 line.... you're not ready for the mod game. lol

gbrettin

Worked on getting my exhaust roughed in. I'll cut the bumper where I want them to exit next and then see what I need to do to get the pipes out the holes. Tires don't hit at full crank and have a decent air gap given the space to work with. Side note, the ends on the pipe are not clean because they will get cut when I figure out what angle the exhaust needs to go out the bumper. Clocking of the turbos made it difficult to line out but I think I nailed it, especially doing it myself (walking back and looking at both side and making tape lines).

Not bad for an evening of work.... well... most of the day.

A functional bandsaw would be really nice at the shop...

sirnixalot

You're consistent as all hell with the tig on those pie cuts, I am jealous.

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gbrettin

I learned a lesson about stainless steel... sh1t is tough and buy prefab.

I bought four of these:
Tigtonic 3" Fully Welded Pie Cuts Lobster Tail 90 Degree Stainless for Turbo Exhaust Intake
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NTHRWQ4

and a few stacks of these:
Tigtonic 3" Stainless Pie Cuts Kit 90 Degree Bend for Custom Exhaust 6 Pieces
https://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Deg.../dp/B07NV1BHNH

Just making my life easier at this point.

Rusty

When welding stainless tubing or pipe. You have to purge the inside of the tubing or pipe to get a good weld. Otherwise the weld will sugar on the inside.

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gbrettin

I'm having Dave do the tig and he back purges. My skills end at mig (for now).

gbrettin

Rear brakes were looking wore out and I assumed that the pads were done too. When I took everything apart I was surprised to see as much pad as I did on the EBC yellows because they had MANY Tail of the Dragon runs on them and spirited driving braking.

I thought that the rear spacers had a broken stud, but apparently that was only on the front hub. Rear spacing has increased from 20mm to 25mm. Eh, what ever. not the end of the world getting new spacers on. I did notice that the threads were not great on the H&R spacers so it's not a waste.

Rotors are cheap run of the mill which will be mated to Hawk track pads. However, these brakes are not the end game for the car because they will be switched out to TBM ultra light rotors and billet calipers. The TBM rotor will allow for 15" tires for drag racing and be a huge upgrade over the non sport conversion everyone does. I'm not doing that route right now because brackets will need to be made and I'm not doing any more special projects until this thing is done.

Where are we at on the "sliding done scale"?
1. Mount the gas pedal.
- The pedal was welded up by Dave and is ready to go. Holes have been drilled and just needs to have a pin put through the cable to the pedal. Easier said than done because that's way under the dash.
2. Properly bleed the brakes.
- I did a gravity bleed because I was alone. NOT GOOD ENOUGH.
3. Terminate and clean for final wiring.
- ... ok "final" is kind of loose here. It's going to be final in the sense of mechanically working, not beautiful. I can tidy everything up at my house on my own time after it is working.
4. Cut bumper for fender exit and align exhaust out.
- I have had multiple people tell me that the exhaust will scoop air in its current form. Yes, I know this... It's not done. The alignment part will extend the exhaust out and I will use a pie to direct the exhaust towards the back of the car.
5. TIG weld exhaust w/ bung.
- I'm obviously not doing the TIG, Dave can knock that out.
6. Dyno tune car.
- There's a dyno at the shop and we have tuning know how. Not a huge hurdle.
7. Melt the rear tires to the cords with burn out and get new tires.
- The tires are old at this point. I can't think of a better way to complete the project phase.

SO, that's the short list folks. There's always something that pops up but that list is fairly locked in.

Also want to say thanks to Leingod for sending me two OEM lugs. I apparently lost a couple somewhere down the line.

gbrettin

No real updates other than having a few parts come in that I specifically want to show... mainly because I think it's hilarious.... Clearly I don't take the build stuff too seriously.

Exhaust trim ring came in, so now I can get the holes in the bumper and exactly line them out to where they need to go. Paid 50bucks per trim ring due to the engraving. Worth it.

DE_50 / Andrew sent me his used SPL FUCA. I've been asking for them about 2 years... Well, not that I was worried about running a while ago. They came in at the right time. Andrew, if you see this, thanks buddy!

Lastly... I signed up for LS Fest again. I'll actually make it out there this year. I signed up for true street drag racing, because why not have the option to rip down the track? I believe it also got entered as "under construction". I'm not going to be fully buttoned up with everything, so I figured it to be a safe bet. True street is an index class. See the rules.pdf
https://www.lsfest.com/bowling-green...reen/dragrace/
https://www.lsfest.com/wp-content/up...East-Ruels.pdf