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Part 2 2004Motor Swap- Old Motor 100K, New motor 17K!

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Old 01-20-2009, 10:22 AM
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Part 2 2004Motor Swap- Old Motor 100K, New motor 17K!
Heres pics of the wiring harness, motor and tranny pulled out of my car:




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Old 01-20-2009, 11:41 AM
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Building the motor or just a stock for stock replacement?
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Old 01-20-2009, 12:57 PM
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Just a stock replacement, I have a burnt exhaust valve in cylinder 5. I will eventually build the old motor if I dont sell it.
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Old 01-21-2009, 11:24 AM
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Sounds fun....btw, not to nitpick but are you using your flash? Those pics are making my eyes water from the focus (or lack of)...
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niceeeee... I like shinyyyy parts
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Whos doing the work for you Kev?
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Why are you swapping harnesses?
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Old 01-21-2009, 05:49 PM
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Whos doing the work for you Kev?
Frank at Hills garage he's the owner and he work for nissan for years
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Old 01-21-2009, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Kevlo911
Why are you swapping harnesses?
Because the harness from the new motors can dry rot and develope cracks from sitting on the shelf over time so that's why we use the existing one.
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Old 01-21-2009, 05:55 PM
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I got my baby back today and she is running good he started on it monday Afternoon and finished it at 10am this morning.
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Originally Posted by kevin007
Frank at Hills garage he's the owner and he work for nissan for years
Cool man I know Frank he put my exhaust on my Z and checked out my max for me. He' definatly knows his stuff. His shop is around the corner from my house. Glad you got it back up and running.
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Ooooook. Moved.
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Excellent Bro, you putting back the Juice also??
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Old 01-22-2009, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by chernmax
Excellent Bro, you putting back the Juice also??
Yeah I'm definately gonna run the juice again but after I put a wideband o2sensor in I wasn't running one before.
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this seems like going to take a long time.
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this seems like going to take a long time.
wtf? nice post newb
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