Om1krons Build thread cause I hate the lack of them! S14

[khilgers]

I really applaud your patience. It's gonna be great once it's done. I wish you the best for getting things figured out with you and lady.

[racepar1]

That's some pretty damn decent wiring work there, great job.

[onepuff]

Shit that sucks about the job. G/L getting another one soon.

[flip3d]

great build man. wish i had the patience to clean up the wiring like you did.

you should look into becoming a corrections officer. they're always hiring and the pay is decent

[Om1kron]

tried that a long time ago, it's not for me. plus living in lancaster is not an option and you don't get to choose where you're stationed. Not to mention all of the budget cuts those guys are getting the cheese stick from the gov as well.

[kingkilburn]

The corrections guys are making out a lot better than most other state employees.

[Om1kron]

yeah I know, my x brother in law was a corrections officer and so was his pops, but you don't get a choice of where you're stationed.

[NemeGuero]

Come get your mirrors and gimme my mONIES!

[Om1kron]

Another 4 hours down the hole, finally finished the wiring/sleeving on my front body harness. Now I just need to put all of the connectors and crap back on and buy some plugs and make my own disconnects for the kouki headlights.

That just cost me about 12 bucks (shipping rape) go figure.

But first I just wanted to show my cool new screwdriver I bought to work on my old cell phone.



I was trying to open up my roommates digital camera that took a beer bath the day he got it HAHAHAHA!!! it's been sitting on my desk for months, after opening up. This thing needs Jesus not a cleaning.

So yeah outside working on the harness here are some wires that apparently were damaged from rubbing. One goes to the AC compressor for power, and the other is just a ground for the brake fluid sensor.



man it's hot out here in California. Sucks for you guys with snow!



doing some heat shrinking.



I think I have an idea.



Excuse my fat head, I wasn't able to get the myspace angles in while hunched over.



so much win!!!
(brake fluid level, power steering thing, ac on/off)



The battle is far from over, so lets prep the harness to sleeve the remainder ok?




(this makes getting the sleeving over the wires much easier.)

welp... halfway done, just double bagging the friction area =) Don't want to do all of this work for nothing.





Pretty much all done.



it's not pretty but it wont fall apart and nobody will see it.



and the spread eagle shot.



welp, my "lunch break" is over time to go out and put the bottom of the car back together.

this slit in the heat shrink was the best idea I had all day. Each slit has a smaller ring just behind it of heat shrink on top of the larger piece to ensure it never "rips open" as we don't want that.

going to focus on the fuse box wiring next. Just have to push the car out of the garage and turn it around. Need more room to work on it.

[onepuff]

Originally Posted by Om1kron

man it's hot out here in California. Sucks for you guys with snow!

ASSHOLE! It was 9 degrees here yesterday.
Oh yea nice work again.

[Om1kron]

Because I'm unemployed, aint like I got money to be working on this shit! haha j/k

As you may or may have not of read in a previous entry I had lost my job so that means there was some things I was unable to purchase out of luxury. One of those things being my LSD for my s13 (which was already on it at the time.) Being the previous owner "Luke" never removed it due to sheer laziness I decided to save him and me the trouble and offered to buy it.

5 months later it's getting repo'd lol. Luke swung by to pull the diff, I told him I had no way to pay for it and he could take it back as long as he put the stock diff back in place, so that was done as requested around last Thursday I believe it was.




I guess Ernie from DTC Performance needed the diff for a competition since he had a VLSD in his car... (ROFLS) hope you enjoy the diff bruddah! I'm going 1.5 when things turn around for me on this car. So it was nice to have you for one drive KAAZ 2 Way, you will be missed. But I just couldn't produce the disposable capital to keep you!

But onto my car...

I had my roommate order some delphi connectors for me so I could actually make plugs for my headlights instead of them being hardwired in as they were previously.




YAY!

It bothers me that this thing is soaked in gear oil...



But I seriously do not feel like dropping it to re seal it, so much so I just bolted the drive shaft up tonight.

A member on Zilvia was really cool and sent me some parts I needed for my build, saw that I was hitting some rough times.(and I'll definitely return the favor) But funny thing is I went shopping for all of this crap on Saturday and got all the wrong sizes for exhaust gaskets! Luckily I think I can get 18 bucks back from Napa.

That's the plan anyway!



Urethane exhaust hangars... the holes were too small so I had to take the dremel and make the holes bigger, burning hot urethane is very messy, that's all I'm going to say about that!



I seriously have no idea why they cut up the fender wells like that to do the pull. But I need to have some metal welded in there asap so it doesn't on the underside of the panel metal.

This is pretty much where I stopped at because I have no idea what in the fuck I did with the drive shaft retainer bolts... But I think I have a pretty good idea where they are now LOL! (transmission bracket)





(the clearance looks really tight on this, but let me tell you these urethane hangars are a godsend. No more fucking rattling against my chassis, damn car sounded like a coffee can full of rocks being swung out back when it idled.)



It was a bitch to get those hangars all on there and tightened up (two of them have bolts) one of which I think I stripped *doh* but at least I know that exhaust aint moving and that's all that matters.

I dunno where my other exhaust bolts are but I am thinking the huge bolts I had no idea where they came from belonged to the exhaust on the s13. So I guess they're going to have to do on the s14. I bought some fluids for the car to get everything together and what not so I can wrap up the electrical when $$$$ permits but left all of it in my girlfriends car. *doh*

Well I will work on this more tomorrow, I need to pick up my ganador's from Evan and stop giving that poor guy the run around and just ordered up the transmission and diff fluid right now with my last check.

Gotta get this car running so I can look for a fucking job lol.

c'mon unemployment!

[S14DB]

The hangers are supposed to be that small. Throw one in the microwave for a min then run out to the garage and slam it on before it cools. Sucks the exhaust up to the body. I have so much more clearance now.

[Rapier46]

instead of cooking your exhaust hangers...put some lube on it.

actually no, deepfry it.

[Om1kron]

i lubed them up too lol.

[White Comet]

love the wiring work. i saw you commented about my wiring awhile ago and its all done for the most part. the engine is in the car and i just have to finish the fender wiring then i'm done. gl finding another job, and keep up the good work

[Om1kron]

Ok...

First up, I'm going to have to modify this.

Everything bolted up off of the car fine, I suppose.



On the car...



is a different story.



All I can say is, this is going to be LOUD.

Oh, got my drive shaft bolted in...



but.



um, yeah?

I'm going to grab the drive shaft that was on this motor on the s13 to see if that will make a difference, otherwise I need to figure out how this is going to work.

and for BH and Dousan



I approve of Aero Catch Hood Latches, bish ass bishes!

[GSXRJJordan]

Don't worry about your driveshaft, looks like you got an ABS d/s? Anyway that little gap isn't the end of the world, mine's about 1/2" short also (custom 1pc).

There's not enough play in your exhaust bushings to get it all to bolt up?

Did you not know about the new hotness though?


CAHHH-BUHNNNNNN locking hood pins son.

Damn, I just thread-sharted. Didn't mean to shit, but I think I did.

[Om1kron]

hahah it's all good. This hood is just my temporary hood until I can afford the masa motorsports one to replace it. I'm paint matching my shit, therefore I'll have to figure something out for the latches since I don't run a hood latch.

edit: wtf, why does your shit have a hump lock on it, mine is flush?

[Enna]

Knockoff i'm guessing. Coming along nicely man. Your seriously making me want to redo my entire harness. But I'll wait till I got a daily again.

[NemeGuero]

PICS OF GANADORS! or die

[Om1kron]

noooooooo... they're like gunmetal rustoleum or something, i'm not putting them on the car until paint!

[Om1kron]

It was a really productive day.

Stopped at my parents to grab my spare drive shaft on the s13 to see if it would work on the s14. Grabbed the Dust Collar off of the KA24DE Transmission, bag of transmission bolts (since my SR was missing some.) The air compressor, the air gun, the air wrench, 1/2 swivel socket, some extensions.

Headed back to the house, roughly about 11:55am here.



happy package from amsoil.



Oh I grabbed that crap too. Figured I'd fill the transmission from the interior of the car.

Man it's hot today!



Oh yeah, for you Evan!



Ganadors, and vip zip ties from kragen lol
(apparently they keep electric fan zip ties in the back.)



fucking behemoth drive shaft (from my s13), shit looks like it's a space shuttle.



Yay, fan mounted, took the dremel to it and made 3 holes and this is the result. (no more ghetto zip ties)



obviously comparing drive shafts, doesn't look like the s13 one is going to work on my car. Much less, it worries me how skinny the shaft is to the differential on the s13 shaft. Which is on the bottom half of the picture.



I decided to drop the diff to re-seal it, I dunno if it was leaking or what the fuck is wrong with it so tally ho. Had my roommate come out and help with it (pull the e-brake while I rotate the wheels)



I got everything loose except for this bolt.

I tried to drop the sub frame an inch or two to get direct access to it, but as soon as I put my air gun on one of the bolts, the socket adapter snapped into the socket. YAY! At least I know where the 650lbs of tq went. *jack off motion*

The subframe won this battle, fuck it. I'll deal with the leak and check it often.




I bolted the godamned thing back up and decided to change the fluid.

ewe, and ewe... how the hell did KAAZ Fluid get this dark, the fluid on the s13 was still clear when we pulled that diff???



Filled with Amsoil 80-90 GL-5 gear fluid. See how this stuff holds up, I've heard nothing but good things about it. Slightly cheaper than buying KAAZ fluid as well.

Got that squared away and figured it was time for the tranny fluid. Now I didn't take a picture of a lot of the dumb shit I did like pulling tabs through that radiator to mount the fans, or me scraping the diff plugs with a small flathead to get the dirt out of the gooves.

Figured it was a waste of time and people don't clean that shit anyway. They just change their fluid and plug everything back up. I on the other hand cleaned up all of the parts back there.



I really tried to get the filler bolt loose on the tranny, but I just bitched out and did it this way because it's easier. There seemed to be some fluid still in the transmission so I unbolted that plug. While that was draining I spent about 20 minutes trying to get that friggin retainer clip out for the shifter.

And this is a lesson in humility.



Guess how much of that first quart I poured before I had realized I never put the drain plug back in? And what makes this even better is I was more concentrated on taking a super douche bag doofey dumpledore dickbreathed picture of myself pouring oil from inside of my car.

I quickly jumped under the car and plugged it up with my hand and put the bolt back in, I got oil all over EVERYTHING putting the plug in, granted I had my drain bucket under it. The thought didn't even cross my mind, at that point I was ready to kick the car off of the jack stands.

That's the second time I've jiffy lubed my car.

MOTHER FUCK!



Fuck you car...

suck me low.

[GSXRJJordan]

Hahahahhaha - the ol' pourin the oil without the drain plug in trick - it's all fun and games until you have to throw shit away because it stinks of gear oil.

My diff plugs leak, I don't know why, but I'm going to seal em up with Permatex oil-safe thread sealant (white tube) - the same stuff I used on my p/s system - and hope that fixes the problem. Looks like yours is leaking from the top of the gasket, which doesn't make sense because there's not much fluid up there (fluid stays in the bottom, and the diff gets lubed as is spins down there).

I got that subframe/diff bolt off with a 19mm socket that was juuuust the right depth to fit and still 'snug up' on the nut - bought it at Vatozone, has a red ring around it. Try that.

[S14DB]

You put the GL-5 in your tranny and not the GL-4?

AMSOIL - Synthetic Manual Transmission and Transaxle Gear Lube 75W-90 (MTG)

[Enna]

Uh oh.....

[Om1kron]

Originally Posted by S14DB

You put the GL-5 in your tranny and not the GL-4?

AMSOIL - Synthetic Manual Transmission and Transaxle Gear Lube 75W-90 (MTG)

no... i put the gl5 in the diff, and the gl4 in the tranny dude.

[Om1kron]

Went out in the garage today and did a lot of shit

no need for tons of detail.
here's some pictures, you can figure it out I'm sure lol.

just in case you're stupid and didn't figure it out (because I didn't take pictures.)

I cleaned, I cut up cardboard in my recycle bin, I swept, I tightened a shitload of bolts and put BLUE loctite on them just in case, I ruined this white shirt (the back is 3 times as worse), I put more bolts on my transmission, tightened the motor mount bolts, power steering hose from the rack wont fit on the pump so it's in a bag until I figure out how to tackle that, replaced passenger thing a majig boot.

Power steering rod I dunno what it's called, so many fucking arms, rods and what nots down there. Pulled it out of the garage and turned it around, washed it, cleaned the trunk out, pushed it back in the garage now plenty of room to work on fusebox next week.

Wrapped things up and headed to the shower, then cleaned the bathroom once I realized how filthy I have made it today.

That was my Friday, how was yours?

[Om1kron]

I woke up at 4:30am this morning, browsed the web for a bit, kissed my girlfriend goodbye for the week, and grabbed some OJ. I've quit drinking coffee cold turkey, I cheated and had starbucks last Tuesday but that's only because I had to drive to Pasadena and I was falling asleep using my roommates car.

Went into the garage and figured today would be a good day to wrap up all of the intercooler dealings, get it all clamped in and buttoned up, also to put my front body harness back together.



check out the cool gloves my roommate gave me, they're for electrical stuff and what not. Grounds your hands or something like that, lol.


5:45am











look at the location for the ambient temp sensor for the digital climate control.

I stopped halfway though to take a breakfast break, ended up beating battlefield bad company during this break, I was already half way through the game. After all was said and done, this game sucked. It played like rainbow six, and if anyone knows me I am a HUGE battlefield fan.

Went back to the garage.

My measurements for the electric fan wiring were a bit off, but then again I have an over sized radiator that doesn't exactly fit my car properly.



After I got the harness back together, I got all of the hoses for the radiator in and clamped down, filled the radiator with coolant. And of course, forgot to tighten the drain... lol luckily not that much leaked and it's still topped off, but there goes my dry garage floor.

Yes too much reading and not enough pictures asshole. I see what you're saying.





I then decided to take the dremel to my vertex front bumper. I wish I had some kind of sanding device to make the shit I did even, but seriously I could lay more glass in here if it bothered me that everything is no longer symmetrical.



this is not computer generated, and I'm only 25 percent done.



done, fuck poor dremel, already sounds like it's going bad haha.

I would also like to add, I fucking hate working with fiberglass, so I tried to one up it this time and put on a sars mask, eyeglasses, long sleeve shirt, had jeans on, gloves. You do not understand agony until you spend a day with a nice coat of fiberglass in your forearms.

I then test fit the bumper by just putting it on the bumper support, not one screw at all holding it in place. This is so beautiful.







Why so high? is the SR lighter than a KA?





Sat a fender on the car to double check.
(wow it is pretty high, that's odd.)

Then I kind of sat around for a while, thought about life while sipping on some OJ.

Decided to finish the remainder of the harness with a boot of heat shrink I had placed back here but never heated up, then did the deed, pulled the harness back in the cabin through the plug. And put in my aluminum skid plate, you may also notice I have the old oem harness cover over the tech flex, which makes the wiring look twice as thick.

Being I already double bagged the harness with tech flex. There is a lot of shag metal the flex can snag on, so I want it double protected out here at the front of the car. Troubleshooting electronics is one thing, but when you cant easily access them, that's another monster.



You can see here that if my harness ever breaks it's zip ties holding it up, it will just fall and rest on the skid plate (which only has one screw in it, otherwise it's more of a tight fit where it is.





And I'm just going to dive into the fuse box dealio tomorrow.

I still do not know what to do with my power steering hose, I think I'm going to yank the one off of the s13 and put it on my s14. I don't feel like dismantling the engine and trying to get the old KA power steering pump to work.

Anyway, I'll keep the updates moving.

I packed up shop when it started to get dark.

[Zero-Offset]

Wow.
I love this thread.
<3

[Om1kron]

Then you would have this face too.



In the process of wiring up my fuse box I took the time to penetrate all of my contacts with the soldering iron and get a little solder up on the wire to hold it in place. Then I have an odd fuse 15 amp with no wire going to it, check my reference sheet and it says a solid red wire about 16ga should be attached there. But I see no solid red wire!

Fuck me, I remembered when I was pulling the wires through the fender well boot that there was a host of red wires that went to absolutely nothing, like at least 3-4 wires off of one lead. At first I decided to cut the extra wires out of the equation, then I just de-pinned it and threw the wire in my spare wire box in case I needed it again.

Luckily for me I found it, as it’s the wire that runs to the headlight fuse and relay.

DOH!


(I would also like to add, this is a very uncomfortable position to be in for 8 hours.)

But then I had another problem, the FSM states that the pin should be in the 8 socket, and there was a red/white wire in the 8 socket.

So I double checked, triple checked, and quadruple checked that every other wire was where it was supposed to be, and was trying to figure out why in the hell the red/white wire was where it wasn’t supposed to be?




Here is our 39 15 amp fuse, and here is where the wire branches off.



one wire to this guy. slot number 8 on plug E105




Strangely enough 11, and 12 are not listed as to what goes into those slots on the above chart.



slot number 8 has a red/white wire in it. or R/W as indicated in the FSM.



You can clearly see that R/W wire should be in slot number 5 according to the FSM so how it got here is beneath me, or is it above me…. Or is it beside me? ah who knows.

So easy fix.


(just a helpful tip for those who will do electrical work. In the fsm when reading pin outs for the plugs, and it shows you a picture of the plug as I posted above. Although I have it slightly crooked in this picture, this is how the pin out is illustrating the plug. You can always cross reference your pin out's by reading what's supposed to be in the other holes.)

de-pin the number 8 slot, insert our red wire (R). and slide the (R/W) red/white wire into slot number 5, which is directly above or parallel to 8. However you want to call it.

The ups man showed up as I was working on the fuse box.



yay!


(replacing most of the old fuses, and 25 & 30amp fuses, finally. which replace those huge block fuses previously in the engine bay.)

and now for pictures that don’t make much sense.



I had to extend the turn signal wiring to the passenger side of the dash, and I’m going to add in the extensions for the rest of the wiring today.


(another helpful tip, make that shit longer before you have everything buttoned up like this, otherwise you will have to solder in the most uncomfortable position on the planet. :sadblu: )

As I was undoing the screws that hold the smj in place, I dropped one in the body of the car which is pretty much virtually un-reachable without removing the dash bar. I fucking swear if that goddamned thing rattles when I drive I am going to be soooo pissed. I am going to attempt to get it out today, which means removing the dash bar yet again.



UGH!

Time to hit the shower, just got home from the gym, then back to the garage to slave away for the rest of today. I should have this all said and done.