I'm sure a lot of you have already seen my status updates as I was going through the motor rebuild. I just figured I would post a few of the pics from start to finish as a recap.
Here is a video from the night I realized my Z was not running properly. The tranny wasn't shifting right and the compression felt like a Honda. Races 6 to 9 are me versus my friend's N/A.
It turns out my compression was not only not within spec of each cylinder but each cylinder was also below the threshold. This led me to begin my swap/rebuild.
And here was the video of me first starting it.
And here is a video of a friend (I let him test drive the Z since he played a huge role in this rebuild) pulling her back into the garage after her first test drive.
I wish I could say it was all a piece of cake getting the bugs worked out. We hooked up the timing light and saw that I was at 35 degrees. My Blazt also showed me at 1,500 RPM's and 5.64v for the TPS. We got the TPS dialed in but my idle and timing were still high. We adjusted the CAS clockwise but it maxed out and I was still at 30 degrees. The idle screw was also maxed out. Turns out, my throttle cable was too tight so it was under constant throttle. We loosened it and I popped right to 15 degrees. After disconnecting and reconnecting my TPS, I went to normal idle and all was well in the world. It sounds easy but it was a major pain and I was semi freaking out wondering if I forgot something.
Anyway, here are some pics today. I managed to give her a bath and then drove to a nearby parking lot with a friend who came over.
----------------------------------------------------- Never Play Leapfrog With A Unicorn!!!
Do yourself a favor and just worry about your own car. I don't see what everyone is so worried about anyway. If someone else wants to perform a modification that you believe will destroy the value, cheapen the Z32 or whatever you can't sit on your hands about, wouldn't that make your tastefully-modified, white bread Z32 more rare and valuable? -- BradZ (FL) on December 23, 2007 at 12:19 PM
The unicorn gets its revenge... -- Scotts94z32 on September 19, 2006 at 11:12 AM
My last 2 years from start to finish. - 
