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I’m making steady progress, or at least I feel like I am. Unfortunately the progress is not very interesting.

The Moog ball joints are installed. I tried using the Harbor Freight ball joint press, but that was a complete failure. So I decided to take the control arms to a local machine shop to have the old joints pressed out and the new ones pressed in. At the end, the total cost was $60 ($40 for the ball joints, and $20 for the labor). This is still half the price of buying new control arms with the ball joints already in them.

While I have the bumper cover off, I decided to tackle some rust on the upper and lower bumper supports. Right now, they are in my backyard waiting to dry. As with everything, I found some more rust behind the supports and below the radiator support. Luckily, it’s only surface rust, so I’m going to take a wire brush and sandpaper to it then shoot it with some primer and paint.

My horn is now finally fixed as well! It ended up just being the horn itself, so it was a easy fix.

After I get the new sway bar end links (I snapped one when doing the ball joints), an alignment and emissions and inspections testing are next on my list.

Chris' 2000 Sentra SE, Restoration Project

I have continued to work on the planning of the B14 ECU conversion. Another turbo B15 owner sent me the pinouts that he used in his conversion. The same pinout was also used by  at least one other turbo Sentra owner as well. This made me feel better, since I have solid proof that this pinout works.

After comparing the pinout to the one I was originally using, there were a handful of differences. I updated the spreadsheet that I created (Updated link below).

This past weekend I discovered that I had forgot about the connectors for each of the B14 sensors I will be using. When swapping over to a B14 ECU, it is standard practice to also covert to a B14 intake manifold. Mostly this is due to the fact that the B14 IACV is very different from the B15 one. In addition to running the B14 intake manifold sensors, you need to splice the connectors for those sensors into the B15 harness.

My plan is to do the ECU conversion, intake manifold conversion, injectors, and MAF all at once (probably over a few days).

B15 to B14 ECU Conversion Document

Chris' 2000 Sentra SE, Turbo Project