Installation: Day 02
I spent this past Saturday doing a bit more work to the car. I wired in the Cobra MAF harness and maked all of the wires going to the B15 ECU. I was going to start soldering the B14 harness into the B15 one, but my back had had enough about an hour of bending over the car. Hopefully I will get the chance to finish that some time this coming weekend.
After ordering the external waste gate, I dropped the waste gate, manifold, and hot-side of the turbo off at that fabricators. That stuff should be done in a few weeks. I decided to go with a Tial V44 waste gate instead of the Synapse Engineering one. My motivation was getting a good price on the Tial unit over the Synapse. You can find some pictures of the waste gate in my gallery. I’ll have more detailed pictures when the manifold comes back from the fabricators.
After much debate, I have decided to get the manifold, J-Pipe, and hot-side coated with Swain White Lightning. It will add a good bit of money to the total cost of the project, but I think it fits well with my goal of doing things right the first time. Reports say that the Swain coating will help keep under-hood temperatures in check as well as helping spool time.
I’m still waiting on a lot of parts from Nissan. The dealer said the coolant neck came in, which is good since that was the last piece I was waiting for before I dropped off another order at the powder coaters. Hopefully the B14 IACV equipment will not be far behind.