Well my garage was in shambles from a motor build and install that I helped a fellow forum member with. It was a long tedious proces of taking an SR20 that was nothing more than an assembeled block, with the cylinder head and all of it's parts shoved into a plastic bag, and making it whole again. It was my first time assembling an SR20 and honestly it went just great. The install into the car was a bit more eventful with a couple of roadblocks, but all in all it was cool to learn how to build a different motor and I learned a lot from the experience.
Anyway after the install my garage was a COMPLETE disaster. Stuff all over the place, dirty floor, things accumulating on the work bench etc... etc...
I haven't really had the time to clean it up since we finished and honestly with the garage in the condition it was in, it kept me from wanting to work on the car. Well today I spent the better part of 5 hours COMPLETELY cleaning and oganizing everything in it. I even hung a new 4 bulb flourescent light fixture smack over the engine bay area. Took all of my fluid conatiners to local places to dispose of properly, etc.....After I was done and I pulled my car in I sat for a few minutes admiring my newly organized space. It was just begging to be worked in.
I guess it's a good thing I have an SE-R coming in tomorrow for a motor swap...
MAN I love working on cars....
Well my garage was in shambles from a motor build and install that I helped a fellow forum member with. It was a long tedious proces of taking an SR20 that was nothing more than an assembeled block, with the cylinder head and all of it's parts shoved into a plastic bag, and making it whole again. It was my first time assembling an SR20 and honestly it went just great. The install into the car was a bit more eventful with a couple of roadblocks, but all in all it was cool to learn how to build a different motor and I learned a lot from the experience.
Anyway after the install my garage was a COMPLETE disaster. Stuff all over the place, dirty floor, things accumulating on the work bench etc... etc...
I haven't really had the time to clean it up since we finished and honestly with the garage in the condition it was in, it kept me from wanting to work on the car. Well today I spent the better part of 5 hours COMPLETELY cleaning and oganizing everything in it. I even hung a new 4 bulb flourescent light fixture smack over the engine bay area. Took all of my fluid conatiners to local places to dispose of properly, etc.....After I was done and I pulled my car in I sat for a few minutes admiring my newly organized space. It was just begging to be worked in.
I guess it's a good thing I have an SE-R coming in tomorrow for a motor swap...
MAN I love working on cars....
I know the feeling. I took the sr20 out of my nx2000 when I dropped the ve in and the I said let me try to part this thing out. So I took it down and removed everything. There is such a mees in my garage. Not even to mention the fact that I have A shell of another nx2000 sitting on jackstands and the parts for that car are all over the place.
I have a big project ahead of me putting the engine back together and cutting the frame up to throw it out.
Plus I know how it is to not want to work when everything is all over the place. I guess I got to get around to putting in a days work myself.
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heh.. I know the feeling as well.
right now I have four engines in the garage. two VE30DE and two VG30DE. none of them run. one is goign back to the junkyard Monday for a refund/replacement. got the sucker home from the junkyard and pull the timing covers off to change the belt.. WTF?! the belt is shredded! nope.. nuh uh. not going to bother. taking it back.
now I can't even get the engine hoist back in the garage because I have so much crap in the way.
what's worse is I have three freaking cars with KAs in the driveway.. all running fine. but two cars with their big cousin, the venerable VG, are both dead in the water with broken rods!
Hey Matt, you wouldn't happen to have any 95-99 Maxima rear-calipers sitting around would you?
Anyway, yesterday we picked up a new JDM motor, the car, and towed it back to my house. It is a 91 SE-R and the car has been daily driven in the mid-west. While it was not easy we managed to get the motor out of the car without breaking a single bolt! Granted it took us a good 5 hours to do so, but hey at least now we don;t have to source a bunch of parts. Today just took a couple hours to swap over PS, AC, IM and get it prepped. A nice weekend of working on cars, gotta love it!
no rears for a 4 gen, but I have two sets for a 92-94 model.
(FYI, the rears for the 00-03 are the same as the 95-99. fronts changed for those times, but the rear brakes stayed the same from 95-03).
the VGs and VEs in my garage all suffered some pretty nasty abuse. blew up my poor VE at the track at 223,000 miles- after countless hundreds of laps at various tracks in the area. The other VE is one that had a blown HG and overheated pretty bad. it was a free core motor that I tore down and haven't put back together yet.
the VGs.. one I blew up myself.. was dumping some seafoam through it feeding it off the vacuum line going to the FPR on the balance tube. evidently it likes to puddle somewhere in there, as it wound up 'hydrolocking' cyl #6. still ran fine, but had severe mechanical (rod?) knock and the compression is only 100psi on that cyl now. all other cyls are around 175. the other VG was one I picked up at a junkyard and after inspection I think it's in worse shape than the engine I'm pulling out! it's going back tomorrow for a replacement.
I'll try to get a few pics of my 'clean' garage tomorrow.
The other VE is one that had a blown HG and overheated pretty bad. it was a free core motor that I tore down and haven't put back together yet.
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