Been working on the Silvia over the last few days in between the shit weather, most of the work under the car is now done, I fitted a replacement 4.3 final drive diff that I had welded up. It has UK output shafts, so I converted the driveshafts/inner CV to UK stuff to suit. This wasnt a big deal as one of the import CV’s had exploded and was useless anyway.
This is all that was left when I removed the old shafts and diff. The boot had split all round, and there were no ball bearings in there at all, and half the bearing carrier had gone haha!!
Had a bit of an impulse buy recently and picked up an Apexi Power FC ECU with commander, its and L-Jet so uses an airflow meter, I bought a Z32 AFM from the same dude selling the ECU for a good price. Keep telling myself that its stuff I can always sell on for the same price if I never get round to power upgrades, thought id just aswell get the ball rolling collecting all the supporting mods for a bigger turbo, should be good!
Went to plug in the Power FC just to check it worked ok and the display on the commander worked, then noticed a red wire randomly sticking into thin air at the ECU plug, found that the wire had snapped out of pin 105, which is the ‘Fuel Pressure Control’, which isnt very cool! Not sure if it snapped as i was unplugging the stock ECU or if it had snapped off before. Kinda hoping when its fixed it will cure the low-boost issue ive had, the car only boosts to .5 bar for some reason, hoping its the ECU capping the boost because of the fuel signal not being there hahah.
So seeing as ive deleted the aircon, im going to take the pin for that out and replace the pin which the wire snapped out of.
So the last thing on my list is to fit some new caster rods. I’m using Part Shop MAX arms at the moment, but they’re way too chunky and are limiting my steering lock. To the point where the wheel using the rods as the lockstop instead of the lower arm. I bought some Skyline GTR rods from driftworks, these are kinked and generally thinner so will allow for more clearance. They need a few tweaks to make the the most out of them on an s-body. In their shortest setting theyre still too long, so the orange threaded sleeve part can be cut down a bit both ends to make the rod shorter. Also the holes that mount to the LCA are different so you have to slot the forward most hole to suit the LCA. Last of all, the inboard metal spacer that mounts at the front can be shortened , to allow the front joint to move further inwards and generally brining the whole rod further in. With these tweaks the rod should be at least flush with the roll bar, which will be alot better!
And this morning I picked up some R33 GTR wheels, will be using them on the rear at drift days as it sucked bending TE’s last time! Going to run the full set for a bit while I get the TE’s straightened and potentially sold for something different as I fancy a change!
