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power FC. i can run the fuel pump if i want to, thats not the issue. the issue is that the tune is setup for the idle fuel supply to be controlled by the fuel pump controller, which its not doing. i have already pressurised the entire plenum and piping system looking for leaks and I'm fairly confident there are none. i spent another 4 hours on it last night with no progress. i still have to go through the TPS and the idle switch wiring, that will be tonight's job. for clarity, the issue is that the fuel pump controller is either not turning the pump on at all, or its giving it 12v at idle, which then floods the motor. and the motor and ECU were running with no issues in the other car. the engine loom is different and the alarm has been wired in a very unusual and terrible way so im working my way through removing that. i shall continue to battle with the fucking thing tonight.

initially i had the pump hotwired to 12v because the alarm was being a dick. it did not like that one bit. the vac reference for the pressure reg is coming off the factory vac port and I've tried two different fuel pressure regs, ive also confirmed that the gauge is reading fairly close to right. fuel line is the same between both cars. pumps are different. pump in my car is a high flow unit of some sort. however flow does not equal pressure so i cant see how different pumps delivering the same pressure at the rail would make any difference.

I still can't get this thing to run right. I'm fucking pissed off with it tbh. Is the same motor and ecu that I drove into my shed with no issue in a different car and now it won't run for shit. It's got too much fuel at idle and goes lean at throttle input. Is like the fuel controller is backwards. I haven't checked the pump voltage yet because I decided to do something to actually make progress. So I went back to being an upholstery expert. A very shit one. Whatever, so i pulled the front seats apart to see if I could swap the cushions and covers left to right. Seat base i was able to swap but the seat backs are too different left to right to make it work. I washed the seats too and got a mountain of disgusting shit out of the fabric, then I put them back together. They still look terrible. Maybe I'll die them to try and hide some of the sun fading.

your temp problem could be the sender unit. the resistance that the gauge need to see to read in the middle of the sweep is not a common value and getting a sender that reads the correct resistance value for a given temperature is pretty hard to find now. you may be chasing a problem that isnt there.

Feilding people, im planning on taking my fancy datsun to this event, we are staying at he fielding hotel which isnt the most secure of parking places. could i impose on someone to park my car in a secure location where it wont get stolen by the many and various fielding crackheads? thanks team.

Fuck did i have some issues getting it running. On the plus side I now know what every single wire on the ecu plug does, and that it's properly connected and working, as well as 90% of the entire cars looms. One i got the thing to actually run i thought the sensible thing to do would be take it for a drive. It's still running like a dog but I drove it anyway. Fuck it's choice, even though I've only driven it 10ks in a fucking cyclone I can already feel how amazing the thing is. I'M HAVING A BEER WHO'S WITH ME!!!!!!

look, this all theoretical, lets be honest.

yea na the turbos are not stock, fuck all in the motor is stock. the turbos are HKS, along with the oil pump, pistons, rods and possibly cams as well but i cant remember. it makes just over 400kw apparently which will do fine for now.

This is so fucking great.

The plan is to bolt it all back together and do a skid, yes.

Fuck I'm so stoked. This is so So Rad.

I'm trying to get the motor back in the car. Couple of mods that have been made to the engine that I need to unmod. There's no feed or return for the heater because racecar so I need to reinstate them. Block part was easy, I found a spigot off a 5M that I could make work by drilling and tapping the blanking plug. easy. The other bit was a bit more fucked so I ended up making a whole new one out of stainless. is made from the hot water feed pipe for a 1UZ idle speed controller that I managed to get out of the aluminium body, a bit of 19mm ss tube and a generic 16mm ss bend. added a bracket and Bob's your wombat.

It's starting to look like a complete dogs breakfast in here. That's how you know you're making progress.

Overnight parts from Japan. 5 days from place order to arrive rural delivery. Pretty fuckin good

Got the bush/balljoint kit delivered so I put all the suspension back together. Unfortunately the rear balljoints were the wrong ones so I couldn't finish the back. Should get replacement ones on Wednesday. The castor arm bushes were huge with flanges on each side and there is no way on the planet I could have pushed them through without a press. With a press however the job went really easily.