| This is going to be the thread where I show the pictures of my complete rebuild and give quite a bit of details along the way. I hope you enjoy! Engine removal started several months ago after the car sat from a local drag day of last year in september. This is what the car looked like then. 
The engine was completely out, and then it was time to start cleaning up the engine bay.
 Here the engine, fresh from removal, waits to be broken down
 After the engine tear down I started dressing up the little items I knew would give it some character. The oil pan gets cleaned up and a fresh coat
 I figured since everything else was getting painted I might as well touch the engine bay up, and prevent rust as well
 This is the shop after its been painted and all the tape has been removed
 I figured this would be a good time to go ahead and freshen up all of my polished stuff. This included the plenum, CAS, and water pipes.
 Since I knew I was going to be running more boost than stock I decided to pick up and electronic boost controller. After quite a bit of research I decided on the Greddy Profec B spec 2
 Continuing on with the “dressing-up” of parts I sandblasted everything and gave it a fresh coat. I switched the colors up from my previous scheme. I believe this gave the engine bay a cleaner look, which you’ll see later
 This is the table most of my stuff sat on the time of the rebuild. Man what a lot of crap!
 Misc parts that were streaming in the entire time of the rebuild!
 Getting serious means buying serious parts. These aren’t complete top of the line, but forged products means better than stock , as well as the weight advantages
 Money shot of the Pistons
Money shot of the rods
 Nissan OE Bearings and Oil Pump
 Bling Bling Polished Hardpipes. I love this setup with my polished plenum and water pipes!
 Finally parts are making their way back from the machine shop. Here my heads have been completely freshened and machined to spec and the crank has been balanced, counterweights tig welded, and oil passages drilled for better flow
 Here is a closeup pic of the head
 The block ready to be cleaned up and have some mild work done to it
 Here I’ve ground out the coolant passages because Nissan did a horrible job when casting this block. I was pulling chunks of cast metal out of this passage. I made sure to flush it out well too!
 As the block is ready to go together I layed the pistons and rods out to be assembled.
 Here we are making sure the ring gap clearances are what they need to be
 Rods/Pistons are assembled, now we need to install the rings
 Soon after the pistons are in and I have a bottom end!
Now I’ll seal the oil pan on and install the oil pump
 Now that the bottom end is taken care of its time to work on the top. Since I’m going to be pushing 20+ pounds of boost eventually I knew I needed to upgrade head studs so I gave ARP a call
 Here the drivers side head is going on
 Now the passenger side head is on, as well as the new water pipes
 The lower intake manifold is not bolted on
 Rear coolant and oil lines start going on
 Heads are finally assembled with the cams and plenty of assembly lube!
 Water Pump and pulleys making their way on
 Valve covers going on. The wires you see hanging out are the variable cam timing solenoids. For you punks that’s VTEC for Nissan, in 1990!
 Cam gears are now going on, as well as the backing plates. T-belt tensioner is now installed too
 I decided to install the upper plenum at this time
 Another plenum shot
 All of the coolant/oil lines installed
 I deleted the complete EGR system and fabbed up my own EGR blockoff plates
 More of the rear of the motor
 I got the cam covers, fan clutch, and alternator all installed. This makes it much easier than installing them with the engine in the car
 For now all of the work was done that I could do until I received my turbos. I figured it would be a good time to go ahead and install the boost controller. I was thinking of different ways to put this in, and then I had a great idea. Put it in the dash!
 I think its pretty cool where I installed it and it has some stealth look to it
 Meanwhile I am still waiting on turbos. I decided to get rid of the aggressive stillen look and revert back to a clean look. I decided on going with the 1999 JDM 300ZX Front end. Not many people have it, and I think it updates the car while maintaining the classic lines
FINALLY! Look what showed up. Wait, why is my brother humping the box?
It feels like Christmas ripping this bastard open!
 Lookey here, turbos! Wait………purple wastegates????
 Man these are sexy bitches. These are gonna make some pretty decent power
 Here they are being installed
 Adding the necessary piping
 
For some reason the engine went in so easily. I think I remember it taking all of about 10 minutes to get the car in the air and slide the engine into place
 Yes, I know this rebuild is shocking you
 Getting ready to bolt the clutch up
 We needed to use the jump pack to prime it, as well as fire it for the first few times
 Just making sure everything is cool underneath, no leaks!
 Here is the finished pic of the engine. Yes its missing a battery but that’s a minor detail!
 This is from the ride home from Springfield to champaign. It was carrying a lovely 30psi of oil pressure and maintaining temp.
 New boost guage installed showing the correct amount of vaccum for the conditions!
 Now onto the info about the car The engine spun rod bearings 5 and 6 while at cordova raceway I pulled the motor with 92929 miles and rebuilt it with the following Wiseco 87.5mm Pistons
Eagle H-beam rods w/ARP rod bolts
Full bottom end balance
ARP Headstuds
Z1 Stage 2 Turbos
Nismo 550cc Injectors
Fresh Heads
Nissan OE Bearings/Oil Pump/ALL Gaskets
All new hoses/vaccum lines With this setup I hope to achieve 500rwhp if not more, wish me luck :D Thanks for viewing
1990 300ZX TT
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