I gotta stop over and see this thing in person. We should stop by at lunch or something one of these days…
Bring your wirin’ boots if you plan on stopping by. 
So, finally a photo update after forever. The D200 rocks, but I’m mostly still lost in how to use it well. Left it in auto mode for these, most came out OK, but I was working and sweating my ass off, so quality wasn’t the #1 concern.
Engine is in the car, Mark is bolting on the tensioner now. The intake is not mounted, since I need to cut a bit of the lip underneath the brake lines. I want to wait to do this until the transmission is mounted so I can take off the minimum amount of material.
The ghetto garage I’m working out of. No electricity at all. The toolset I’m using is 90% contained in that small black box under the table. The car is very very dusty/dirty from sitting around for the past few months. BFH is on the ground. It’s mostly for a wheel stop, but…well…sometimes a BFH is what the job calls for.
It’s like an FD bomb went off! Not shown are the bumper covers in the rafters. Picture came out terribly, but oh well.
What I get to rock out in until the FD is done. Features a 4 gallon gas tank and an 8 gallon gas leak above that, a broken exhaust, a major vibration above 40mph and lots of body damage. It still moves pretty well (killed a friend’s sentra and only gave up a fender to an IS300 on the highway), but it’s a real piece. Fun for burnouts though! The wheels came like that and are being swapped to a stock color set, but that’s not a priority with the FD needing work.
Interior is a mess up here…wiring fun to come.
Belts routed, PS lines run, getting ready for a radiator.
I think I need to mount the radiator to the further back of these two points under the frame rails…
And that’s it for today. Spent most of the day at work and then moving my apartment shit. Going to grab some more parts tomorrow and drop my injectors off for cleaning. Maybe I’ll get the radiator in too.
Yummy yummy - but the big question is - what’re you gonna do with the BMW when you’re done with the FD? ( lol )
Same thing I do now. Burnouts. 
I <3 my garage.
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I <3 my garage.
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Hell ya, this wouldn’t be possible without it!
Radiator tabs were wrong, so I had them rewelded today. Took ~5hrs of driving/waiting and probably close to $100 out of pocket all said and done, but it’s mounted and seems to fit fine.
Transmission is now mounted up as well. I need to buy some hardware for the driveshaft and then I can fill the trans with fluid and cut the tunnel to fit the shifter.
I also hammered the firewall where I needed to, so the intake manifold fits. that will be permanently bolted on in the next day or two.
Got a few other things done, overall today was very productive. Hopefully through the week I can make more progress and fire it up over the weekend.
Pics = thousand words.
Looks killer so far. :tup:
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Zip Ties FTW
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agreed I got one of those 1500 assorted containers from harbor freight
Brent when is the expected date for this to be out?
No idea…but I should continue making great progress over the next few days.
Ideally, I’ll be driving it to the USGP in Indy. That’s June 15th-17.
Small update:
Been working too hard to take many photos. I have 2 new ones that are even remotely interesting, and one isn’t all that exciting.
Bit of a note on this. This is the autometer sender coming out of the stock oil pressure location. I needed a metric-NPT adapter, a small male-male NPT piece and a female-female 90* fitting to make this fit. The LS1 PCM doesn’t reference oil pressure, so instead of leaving a plug or a dummy sensor in the hole, I decided to make it useful.
So, driveshaft is hung, but I need to get a shifter to pop the trans into neutral before I can fully bolt it up.
Intake manifold/injectors are on. I had them cleaned by www.neweraperformanceparts.com and it’s an awesome service. Got back the numbered injectors with flow numbers for each AND (this is the cool part) recommendations on what cylinders to place the injectors on in order to make best use of them. Due to intake manifold design, cylinders 1/2 run a bit rich and 7/8 run slightly lean, so Mike made up a little chart showing what injector number corresponded to what cylinder number.
Radiator hoses are run, now I need to run heater hoses, the coolant crossover hose and an overflow hose. That’s today’s plan. Maybe with the driveshaft added in, or wiring for the autometer gauges.
And for more on the autometer gauges, I’m going to borrow the writeup photos to show what I did. Basically, I swapped the stock gauge “guts” out for autometer guts. This lets me run less complicated wiring (not trying to pull signal from the LS1 harness, I’m running my own sender wire) and also makes the gauges WAY more accurate. Stock temp gauge would sit around halfway from ~150-210* or something crazy. It sucked. The oil pressure gauge wasn’t much better either.
Taken from:
http://www.swapcartech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1051
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Surprisingly easy, to be honest. It took a few hours and was slightly tedious, but I’m nearly sure the gauges will work and that’s all I really care about.
For wiring, we just pulled power and ground off of the back of the cluster. Signal wire is run to the sender. Simple!
looking good Brent. Crazy the gauges just bolt right in like that.
I gotta actually stop and see it sometime (maybee on lunch one of these days).
Dan
Cooling system is done and the hoses are routed such that they shouldn’t burn off on the headers. I had to wrap a heater hose in some heat reflective/insulation just to make sure it doesn’t melt.
I need to add a 90* fitting to the overflow tube to help it make the bend to use the stock overflow tank. Other than that, it’s ready for coolant.
Today’s plan is to attack the wiring some more. Fan relay, fuel pump relay, the speedo correction box…not sure what else.
I also found that I need to loosen the passenger’s side header to grind back a bit of the transmission. The header hits where the starter bulge is at. Shitty.
Realistically, under the hood, we have to run the wires for the senders, tighten down the abs and wiper motor, hook up all the plugs, add fluids, put on the TB and intake, and I think thats it for anything major.
Under the car, we need to finish the driveshaft, change diff fluid, tighten fuel lines in the rear.
In the car, we need to cut the center to get the shifter to fit, finish wiring, fill the trans, and put the interior back together.
Anything to add brent?
–mark
Will need to fab an exhaust. I figured out a bit about how to route the CAI. I get the feeling that I’ll need to play with the positioning of the radiator a bit to fit everything in and still close the hood…front sway bar.
Mentioned it before, but I was just curious - how far off was the shifter, Brent? Will it be a big hole you need to cut in the tunnel?
I know someone selling the adapter plate for the GTO’s remote shifter.