what? paul it is right next to the front motor mount. the one that reads if my engine is a TDC or not

 

oh ok. just im working with mistubishis lately and they are on the pulley side.....is it possible that u grinded off ur teeth on the flywheel that its not reading corectly?

 

maybe im not understanding you, the one on the timing cover is the CAMSHAFT sensor...it reads the camshaft. Then of course theres the two crankshaft sensors.

Ok, are you using the 3.0 upper oil pan? or is it a full 3.5 setup?

 

3.5 swap. 3.0 timing, ecu, upper oil pan all sensors from my 3.0 which all were working before the swap.

problem is i went with the 6spd tranny so i had to grind down the stock 6spd timing ring to imitate the 5spd timing ring. i grinded down the timing ring so it had the same amount of teeth as the 5spd therefore the cps sensor would read it correctly. did a pretty damn good job making the teeth match. but the faulty cps sensor reading would cause all my problems. No spark No fuel = No start

 

ok so i had a thought talking to a fellow member. while removing the crank bolt on the 3.0 i had to heat it up so that ruined the 3.0 pully. so i just put on the 3.5 crank pully. looking at them they seemed pretty identical but now with the car not firing this could be the problem. can anyone tell me how far away the cps sensor needs to be and what indincators it uses on the pully to read TDC

 

nice...im in the process of doing my motor and trans swap and rad support seeing this gives me motivation

 

well........

the car started!!!!

forgot to pulg some stuff on the inside. and the crank pulley needed to be swapped out but man what a sound!!!

tach doesnt work but speedo does. i have no check engine light on (weird) and my fuel pump still needs to be figured out. had a slight coolant leak where that coolant drain is at for the waterpump. dont know why it was leaking but glad its from there.

 

well finished up the back window switches and finished my tail lights. going to do a retro soon with my new R34 headlights. any suggestions would be helpful. i dont know if i should do a dual or single

 

car is coming along great man. as for the retro i would say its a personal preference. a single is great enough as long as you have the right projector in there. a dual setup IMO just looks a hell of a lot better in R34s because of the divided chambers...but thats just me.

 

Is that spray tint or film?

Looks great - I have the same ones waiting to go in - (not cracking them open to rework the inside tho), but I really like the tint level.

 

I was thinking dual as well. As of now I only have my TL projectors. Just want something cheap for the high beams.

Tint level I can't really explain. I spray tinted them with a clear coat and added black then the inside of the lights are black as well so umm dark ha idk man

 

Tails came out amazing I love them.

Definitely do a dual retro though!! You can get halogen projectors for hella cheap these days off eBay, I got mine off a buddy of mine for $20 shipped.

 

yeah thats what ill be doing probably. just buying some cheap ones.

ok so i finally had time to finish my interior with the front doors. man the car looks awesome all complete inside.

the lights are UV/purple those plus white are my interior light colors and im really happy about how well my CF tweater covers came out. just adds a nice touch in the corner

 

Looking awesome, where did you gent the carbon fiber look stuff for the door/guages?

 

He layed it himself

 

that CF is awesome!

 

thanks man!!

well i think im going to take off the white cf stuff on the center part. its just way too much white. i love the door switches because its such a small amount like the seatbelts. good thing you just heat it up and peel it off, so happy i didnt paint it lol

 

looking forward to the turn out

 

well figured out that my water pump is bad. man the one i had just got replaced 2 years ago. ahh not looking foreword to changing that

 

well changed my pump today, actually wasnt that bad. gonna be messing around with my retro tonight. gonna be something nobodys done. nothing crazy just something i didnt like about the housing

 

More pics! I'd love to see full body shots and what not.

F'in amazing job man! Looks really, really good under the hood.

Why not lay the black cf on the center instead of the white? And how about burple instead of white for the accents like around the window switches?

Are you driving it yet? Are you gonna leave the rims white?

 

Aha looks like I've got some competition then! I'm also doing something I've never seen done on a retro for a Max before. And something special for my fogs too..

 

oooo! can i play! ive got some special stuff coming too! n then my own lil project ill get to eventually! lol. lets just say its the bumper lights!

oh! and on the center stuff, what about painting them white, with the black cf overlay! that way its just a small outline of white like the doors

 

No you cannot play, we're doing our work ourselves

I kid I kid Can't wait for all these retro's to be done.

 

I wanna play too! I haz exhaust-zorz! and led-zorz!

 

EH! im gonna do the bumpers! and interior! just didnt wanna mess around with that kinda dough!

 

You could have done the headlights for pretty cheap actually. Would have saved yourself the shipping/labor charges but let's keep the OT talk out of this thread lol.

 

anybody can play lol pretty sure we are all going to have something hella custom. mine is pretty simple with the headlights.

i thought about doing that with the white center part but i think ill just leave it black.

the white accents match my white wheels and yes im keeping them white cause it the only color i like with the burple other then some ballin SSR wheels.

so im thinking about making a hood like this for my max. obviously no tow hook lol i just think our hoods would look better with something raised up in the middle to make it a bit more agressive

 

pics pleaseeeee

 

pictures of what exactly?

 

the retro sorry

 

Good Job bro. Looking extremely clean and creative !

 

no worries, i just got all the parts so ill start working on them soon now that school is out

 

Ive always wanted a hood with a raised center, even more so with functioning cowl induction.

 

In for pics of hood.

 

In on the group buy of said hood

 

this build is amazing gonna be a beast of a max when all said and done.... well half way done it looked twice as good as my ol stocker lol good luck with rest of build man

 

seriously they work wonders. i had one on my S14 with a sr swap and you wouldnt believe how much heat it would disapate through all the openings

the hood wouldnt be done till the summer but i just bought some pretty cool parts for my retro. gotta love ebay and having a creative imagination

 

ok so i started my car again and man i love hearing it run. just headers only, its loud

gonna be painting the rest of my body this weekend so hopefully ill be driving it this time next week

 

well got around to working on my headlights. just had these things laying around so decieded to use them as my brights. also smoked the led bulbs in the tails so they blend better





non smoked vs smoked leds