Tuesday, October 24, 2017

240Z - RB26 Engine Conversion [PART 5]

240Z - RB26
We have made some major progress on our our RB26 conversion on our Nissan Fairlady Z and today the build continues So this is an absolute thing of beauty this is turbo Yoda's dump pipe with optional wastegate agitator Is that Yeah, that's the thing to make it not break. Yeah, when it heats up and cools down a thousand times. This is incredible Let's put it on.
OK
I will feed it to you, you can jump under the car I will chuck it under to you, then you feed it up.
Alright.
We'll get it done.

So that the turbo is in now for good, it's got a coolant line.  It's got an oil line. It's attached That's it like we're basically Filter on this side, dump on that side done.
Yep
So good! All right there you go, good luck with that Now I have your v-band marking point here Yep we're saying before I asked you how many times you've done this and we got to hundreds and hundreds and that was as far as You're willing to guess.


Yeah
Which is good. That's enough
Because I haven't This marks a significant part of our build process Because once the dump pipe is connected the major turbo components of our build are complete So the turbo is now mounted it is done the dump pipe is on the wastegate is done. We've got coolant lines We've got oil lines. It's looking incredible so mr.

Yoda Can you tell me about what happens next in terms of the piping over here? So we're just going to throw an air filter on the front of it. Coz that'll, that'll work
Do air filter right here Just stick it on
Yep
Happy days Intercooler pipe is, I've just got one tacked on there that we need it to size up to miss the exhaust manifold Yep, it's gonna go out through into the intercooler
And we're not using any silicon for that at all We're kind of using this like Wiggins style
Yep, we're using a Wiggins style clamp It's not it's not an "a" Wiggins clamp, and it's the same style so that's um Yeah, they're pretty cool, and that's gonna give us some movement isn't it yeah? Plenty of engine movement, and it's virtually you can't break em It's like a, it's almost like a solid coupling, but it gives movement yeah nice. They're really cool So that kind of in a way kind of takes the place of what's silicon joiners might normally do
Yep. That's it Yeah, cool, so obviously that's going to go down to the front now, which I was meant to pick up But it wasn't ready yet, so Marty's gone to hyper tune to pick that up And then that's gonna come around this side into our intake.

Yep, which Marty's also picking up. Yep, and so while we wait for that Fuel tank you know we used a very special technique yesterday to defume And can you explain that to me so basically like it's got just got fuel in there. There's there's beams We drained the tank, but there's still fumes and stuff in there so if you we've gotta cut a hole in it Which doesn't we're not welding it or anything like that But he's still cutting things so to make it a bit safer what we do is just get a car running up the temperature shove the exhaust pot over the fuel Inlet, and it's just the inert gas that's coming out of the car just Continue you just run it for half an hour. Yeah, and it just purges it basically That's an old cock trip from the radiator shop yeah nice.

I want to get blown up by fealty We don't it's best or not just don't do it at all don't touch though well Don't do anything to a fuel think it's a bad idea yeah to a professional We're not welding and we're acting just cutting holes Yeah, it's just a good idea to purge it of any views nice. All right well. Let's go to modify the fuel tank Cara So this this thing's just it's some design, so you can put a modern Fuel system inside the original fuel tank of an old car so It's it's kind of just like a surge tank inside the fuel thing and it's it's pretty simple It's just a like a foam thing with a that's sort of your tank at the bottom. It's just made out of rubber with the foam the pump goes on here And it all just goes in like that and screws down to the tank and we're gonna be cutting that down here Yeah Is there enough is there enough depth here for this sort of we need and say there's a minimal in depth that you can which? We're fine with it's six six inches 150.

Mm minimum height Up to I think it's 12 inches 300 mil maximum okay forget the pump to reach This thing you just trimmed down depending on what what height your tank is So it's got like it this is it This is actually a template looks fancy, but so we cut out we're gonna put on top and cut to that we hole saw 82 mil and that must fit in it, and then you use that that's your drilling template once you've drilled it. I've got this cool Thing here, so it's got a cutout in it So when you get that inside the tank? You need that cutout so you can sort of roll it down inside, and then your studs come back up And it just stays in there. Oh, that's so cool. That is what this sort of mounts onto So then it's got rubber a rubber seal so you can put it in like we've got a nice flat surface, which is excellent but a lot of older tanks are all corrugated and this rubber thing here it actually accounts for the corrugation so It's quite a cool idea it sort of says you're having all the surge tanks and all that stuff that Gets smelly and noisy yeah, and then in a case where you don't need five fuel pumps like this Just one in tank pump it makes No noise is it great Like it's the best thing for the for this sort of car and that's one of the things we're saying for a tinder car like This I swipe left or swipe right which what he is what? What are your let us know? Is that is that it's not going to be stinky, and it's not gonna.

Be noisy yeah, hi Cheryl which means it Just it makes a good car for date night Let's do it The cars going to be running a ditch works fuel pump inside our Modified fuel tank and we're setting it up so we can run both 98 octane and ethanol with a flex fuel sensor We've located the best position for the new pump, and we're marking the center point and then we'll drill it out We're using a hole saw to get a perfect circle and once this is done We can give the tank a quick clean inside and out With the fuel tank successfully chopped now we can start adapting a new fuel delivery system The next thing we have to do is connect power to the new fuel pump We could be surgeons good Works We publish shouldn't these surgeons though Some people do this for a job that they're fixing human beings They're like quick pull the gut out and put the other guts in a lot of people doing poo Transplants at the moment you heard about that It's a thing you Basically there was a guy who was really sick had like gut problems and they got his wife's poo and stuck it up his bum and like fixed him when no other medication could So now they're getting like um AirDroid You know when you're air dry foods their air drying feces sticking it in a pill and then you can take it up your butt and can help you with all sorts of different things, okay, and Go stick it in Go go go go Are we in That was clean with our fuel pump all wired up now turbo Yoda is sorting out our oil cooling system, so this is the Bolt that used to hold the factory water to oil cooler. Yep and so we need like a double-ended spigot to screw a new fitting on yep, and They can't find one easily, so I'm just making this into it So we just got a tap three-quarter 16 tap not - I should say I'm just running it down to make it longer, and then we're gonna cut it off Yep, and just screw it in and then the other thing screws on We won't be attaching our external oil core until our front mount intercooler is done But now at least it's all ready to go back to the fuel tank It's time to prepare this 40 year old beast for some modern fuel delivery technologies Dave from Haltech has arrived to continue wiring the car and Marty has returned from hyper tune with our intake manifold and front-mount intercooler Both of which have been made to order Specifically for this build and that is cause for some celebration So this is really exciting This is our brand spanking new hyper tuned Intake manifold the plenum here is like hydro formed aluminium, and it's welded by the guys down at the factory. Which is pretty impressive You've got the runners here. They're made their billet.

I believe look to be and Also, got a Bosch Motorsports throttle body That's awesome because it's a thrill it's also nice and compact and Dave is gonna wire it in It's gonna look awesome again put a wiggins-style clamp on the front of it so no silicon This will bolt straight to the side of the head well right side of the head via What used to be the individual throttle bodies So this is pretty cool because we can still use our factory injector point you can get these with 6 or 12 Injector ports on them as well. It's also handy because you've got some vacuum ports on the back here So you've got map sensors ball valve boost references all that kind of stuff in the bottom so it looks nice and neat so that goes on there with some bolts that we'll get It does fit. Look at that. It's pretty man that looks so good And I like the theme to like the silver and the black with the top of the black engine he looks amazing It's neat you'll do what you needed to do gets rid of some of the complicated factory stuff and Alan's nodding and half smiling That's usually a very very good thing So a box has arrived from our friends at ditch works.

I'm pretty excited about we have fuel system parts We're gonna have injectors, and they'll be some other goodies in here, but I've yet to see what they are oh? My god so much stuff is awesome What do we got I think that is a fuel pump It's always a bit mysterious the lettering on it You never know what it is until you open it But that's fine because a bit of a fan of the old unbox we had a fuel pump already And we installed it no no, but this is no that's good. If you yeah, that's awesome You know why cuz that's gone in super grants really yeah This is I don't know what these are, but these look exciting also spoke code words Who's that 350 il I think that's for the crest up It's nice of them to give us a spare This oh these will be injected. That's what you want. Yes look.

It's that one What size of these you would I think these are 12? Hundreds for hundreds awesome so these are gonna My object is they're gonna flow heaps heaps what we're doing Because it's gonna be on petrol when it's driving round the streets, and then if we feel like putting ethanol in it We can you're gonna put a flex sensor how thick is gonna know. It's got FN oil in it We've done the pump as you would have seen already and now the injectors going I'll show you where these bad boys are gonna. Go amazing. So this is the So I'm saying before these are the factory throttle body thingies so they they're gonna go like that.

Yeah, I got poor plug down Dave plug And the flute goes there you like that bolted on happy days Very excited it means we can do it this this will mean the car will actually start We get a spark from Dave and some juice from this and some timing from our. He'll take then we're good to go amazing I'm Martin over one quick question for you. Yep over here's something else That's underneath your box of goodies is another box of goodies and underneath here there was shimmying going on today which was a Kind of you know how it had that weird old school like oil cooler before yeah well We're swapping that out to this a heat transfer unit now we could go full bozo style and have to Like hoses hanging out the light over there now and then You know make it look like a bozo build or we could actually just do it properly and mount it somewhere down here but the question is Should it be visible or should it not be visible it's already black. Yes.

I don't particularly want it visible We're going shiny intercooler aren't we just because yes, yes, we are showing intercooler Well you're into color for the extra power Martin. I think we could count putting five any cool Well might have to yes as long as it's pure at all that matters pure, man We're installing a set of 1200 CCD twerks injectors onto our engine due to the way the intake manifold is designed We use the original injector ports and the fuel rail slips directly onto the back of the injectors with the help of some petroleum jelly The injectors have been flow tested and matched and come with a datasheet to help with set up on the programmable ECU once We're ready to fire up the car for the first time a matched set of injectors means you're less likely to need to do individual cylinder tuning these injectors can run petrol or 85 and pressure will be supplied by a DW 400 high flow pump Retrofitted into the original tank speaking of the tank It's time to reinstall it in the car, so what we're doing in the fuel tank here So we don't have to cut holes in the cars that muddy has cut up these These are like engine mounts or something Rubber and you cut them and then we've are all darted them on which means the whole tanks gonna drop down around 20 mil what? That's gonna Mean is that we've got room for a new pump over here and all of our hoses Because there's gonna be a little bit of a gap between the top of this and underneath the car Otherwise we would have to cut out a hole around that round and then run the hoses down that way so this way Of course it's totally reversible Except for the big hole that we just drilled in the fuel tank, but the car body itself will not be affected if this works or art wide But it's looking good so far Yep There was one one not on the top probably two maybe you want to break in between Who we lost something mine's not cloaks anyways Yours is yours gonna work? Bolt extension we need to watch that YouTube video where the guy shows you have a short and a bolt and do the opposite So these are the bolts that hold the straps on for the fuel tank but because we've dropped it by 20 mil These an hour and 20 ml two shots, so we have to extend them I have to lube it up a little bit that will be a gem that in there well the feel things done That was a big one, so he's a mad little tip for you. He's got a Japanese car Turbo, yo who was just asking me if we could try and find a translation or a diagram of this But what you can actually do is get Google Translate put that on to live view? And then that'll let you do really funky stuff like this So let's say we want to know what this fuse is here with Google Translate live view We just hold that near it and that will say air conditioning So that's what that fuse is which is pretty freakin amazing like we are in the future So it's doing a real-time translation of what's on there so over here. You can see that that is lights top left And you can just scroll through it's not always perfect, but it does a pretty good job That's the antenna that's the washer so I mean lolling at you see that is it blowing it said Lowell did it Laughing at you me, but how cool is that? Like that's incredible, so Air conditioning sounds good.

Don't know why it has an air conditioning fuse But I guess that was an option anyway Mad tips for your Japanese car. So it's been a massive a couple of days on the S 32 42 60 280 Datsun Nissan The Arby's in there which is pretty exciting the turbo is all mounted up. It's got its lines the dump pipe Incredible yeah, it's all there. They're very cool external wastegate Yeah We plugged in the oil feed the oil drain the coolant the the coolant drain So that that's I it's pretty much good to go just needs a filter on it and then some intercooler box right and we dropped The fuel tank of course and that got chopped.

That's got its new Pump in it ah Dave's been fiddling away with lots of little wiring stuff But it's super neat I mean you can just gonna slap the wires on the top plug them in and go But this is all really yep And that's the result you get when you get the best the best in the business to do it Which is what we have right here with a gentleman that for some reason come down and help us I don't know. Why it could be the salt and vinegar chips Or it could be Your witty banter Martin that could be the banter it could but here is a lot of that So next up of course are we got to do the front mount. We've got to mount that up We've got to do the piping the intakes got to go on we've got to plumb up the radiator oil call the oil cooler what else is there with some more fiddly fittings to do like bitterly fittings like the breathers on top of the Manifold, so we've got to take them off next as well. Yep Look this will go on soon as soon as days finish Don's doing some more and we'll throw that on and then we've also got To work out whether we're actually gonna rebuild the rear drum brakes just so we can drive around and test it or whether we're gonna Wait and try and upgrade that rear end we haven't really haven't really decided yet what we're gonna have Yeah, is it's tricky to find it you've got to sort of mix and match a whole bunch of parts There's no just one-stop thing that goes fixed.

That's what if they are then on Australia when founding it Yep, so there. It is. Thank you for watching another episode of mighty car mods. We'll be back shortly with some more Redonkulous RV 26 action you can follow us of course on the face balls facebook-dot-com forward-slash in your balls Ah, thank you very much - turbo you're over here Thank you to Dave and we'll be back in a few days, so thanks for watching a straight Cut or kinky creepy crimping our crinkly kit crinkly bullets.

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