Mike, can you snap some detailed photos of your interior? I'd like to see it for comparison's sake.

It's hard to make the inside of mine look particularly neat and tidy, much less pretty, because everything contrasts so starkly with the damned yellow.

The approach I took was to work from the rear of the car forward, and identify everything I was messing with as I went, only cutting out the circuits I don't care about.

So basically, with the rear interior gone, I first went after the obvious rear targets I don't care about: the locker on the gas door, all of the lines to the hatch for everything but the top brake light (radio antenna, defroster), and all of the stereo equipment (sub, amp, XM radio module, etc that's all in the "center" of the car behind the seats).

I unplugged / cut out all of those at their terminal points, which are more or less at the end of their branches of the wiring looms, and/or are the whole terminal end of a branch of the wiring loom. Then I unwrapped the factory looms (lots of shrouding/conduit/tape around them), and pulled only those cut wires out of everything, working my way slowly forward on the car. Every few feet of progress, I'd go back and re-tape what was left of the loom (running to e.g. the taillight assemblies, the keyfob sensors that are still in the rear for now, etc).

I haven't finished mine, I stopped just behind the seats, where the main looms are in two giant bundles running down each side of the car on the outside. At that point it's a pretty thick bundle on each side, and the majority of it I've cut off at that point, as they all traced to stuff I didn't care about (they were the loose wires I've been following from the rear). The ones that remain still follow roughly their original bundles and paths. I taped up the cut-off ends behind the seats to ensure they didn't short against each other or the frame and left them there. To be completed when I start tearing out all the front interior and removing the dash :)

It's hours of brutal work, but IMHO it's worth it and it's not as risky as it seems.

sure, when I get home this week I'll do it.

Thanks man!

Cutting the harness is real simple. I'm sure you have seen my pics in my journal. I did my hole car all the way to the connecting points to the main bulk of the harness behind the dash. Only took me about 4 hours max. No issues at all.

Nice build! Love the yellow Z's!

So cage builder broke his hand about 6 weeks ago, and his PT isn't going as well as hoped, so we're delaying the cage build until the first week of March.

This also means we'll have more time for the seat to come in.

In the meantime, I'm going next weekend to buy a new workbench, shelving, tool storage etc for my garage so that I can get some real work done on the thing.

Here's what I am thinking in the meantime:

1) HVAC Delete
2) Remove condenser from radiator
3) Custom NST 20% UD crank pulley
4) Catch cans so I'll stop having so much oil blow into the engine
5) Custom intake setup based off of the current Nismo system
6) Do something about the wiring
7) Wrap the headers finally (hopefully without having to remove them, looks like it might be doable with the front of the car taken apart)

1) HVAC - my only concern here is removing the heater core. Spohn went ahead and did it, but I've seen conflicting opinions on this in general for a racecar. It's kinda nice to have as a defroster option on some track days, esp. early AM or in weird weather. I'm so excited about ripping so many things out of my car too, though, that I'm likely to do it as well and hope that rain-x / fog-x and paper towels and rolled down windows suffice!

7) Wrapping the headers in-place sounds like a real bitch, even with the radiator, etc out of the way. Also, donno about PPE's coating/metal, but FI recommended against me wrapping mine. Said the wrap would trap condensation against the pipes, eventually drawing out nickel and/or causing corrosion, etc, and you'd just end up having to replace headers faster (this was comparing ceramic coat, uncoated/wrapped, coated/wrapped, and he recommended coated+unwrapped).

Two months now with no heater core. No issues yet with cold weather. But have not been in the rain. I've read noting but horror stories with anti fog solutions. But funny thing is on the BMW and Porsche forums those guys have been using shampoo on the inside of the windshield to stop fog. Apparently a old racer thing. Apply and wipe off.

look at my PPE picture , they had the best coating offered by PPE almost 2 years ago.
They had the DEI titanium exhaust wrap on them since the installation.

this is the result of about 35 000km and about 1000kms of track

they arent too bad and still good for a few years
btw they are Stainless steel, the orange color seem to be the wrap deposit stuck on the pipe.


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What do you guys suggest for disposing of my airbags I've pulled?

Sell them, or... Apply voltage to them in a controlled environment. Be safe.

Just concerned about the legality of reselling them I guess.

Oh, I wasn't away of any legal issues when selling them. I have seen them on eBay before.

After a quick google search I don't see anything that says you cannot sell a used airbag. I did read differing opinions on the handling and shipping of them, though. If you choose to sell them you might want to opt for a local sale.