Installation: Day 03
Good news! The manifold and turbo hot-side ar back from the fabricators, which means I am ready for an external waste gate! The manifold, hot-side, and J-pipe will be shipped out to Swain Technologies in the next few weeks for an application of their White Lightning ceramic coating. This coating is far superior to other ceramic coatings for a few reasons. First, it is applied thicker and in a different manner than other ceramic coatings applied by many powder coaters. I have read many reports of the traditional ceramic coatings flaking off after being exposed to the harsh heating & cooling cycles of a street car. Second, the Swain coating will keep more of the exhaust heat inside the manifold, turbo, and j-pipe, thus reducing under-hood temperatures. They will even apply the White Lightning coating inside a header for an N/A engine (if possible) to increase it’s effectiveness.
The rest of the parts from Nissan have arrived, and the rest of the parts from the powder coater have been completed.
Today I finished wiring the B14 ECU harness into the B15 harness. It was hard on the back to do this with everything in the car, but I was just too lazy to remove the harness from the car. Right now the wiring is not all cleaned up, but it will remain that way until I get the car running and running to my satisfaction.
Recently my home file server suffered a major failure which ended up taking out my entire RAID array. I lost a total of about 1.5TB of data, but out of all of that only about 50GB was stuff I cared about, and only about 100MB were really important files. Among everything I lost all of the documents for my turbo project, including my parts list and ECU conversion spreadsheet. Unfortunatley, I will not be able to post some of the information that I would have liked to.
Tomorrow I hope to install the B14 cooland neck and begin the final installation of the B14 intake manifold.