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I had planned to work on a lot of small things today (on the s13), and installing the rocker arm stoppers was one of them. It seemed like it would be a very simple job, but it turned out to take up almost my entire day!


These are the Trust rocker arm stoppers I ordered many months ago, before I purchased the sr20det engine.


The right hand side rocker arm stopper fit perfectly and only took a few minutes to install. The problem was with the left hand side part. They gave me 2 right hand side parts, so when I turned the part around the first and last holes did not line up properly.


The next small problem was the oil baffle... it hits the rocker arm stopper and needed to be trimmed. This was easy to fix.


Here it is installed. The back hole was easy, I just drilled a new hole and it fit perfectly. The front hole I couldn't fix because there was no metal... so I trimmed the front off so it would not hang as much. I am not really happy with this solution, but there was nothing else I could do - I will need to buy another set and change the part. Maybe I'll try a different brand next time hehehe

I was really surprised that the part was wrong, I have a lot of Greddy/Trust parts and have been happy with all of them. This is the first time one of their parts has had a problem... at least it was something that wasn't very expensive.


Since I had to take the valve cover off, I decided to paint it. I didn't want to paint it red, and I think when I repaint the car that I will paint it similar to the G35 - so I chose a color close to that. After I painted it I polished the Nissan lettering - I'm very happy with the way it turned out!




Here is the cover test fitted... I did not have time to reinstall everything properly, it will need to wait until next weekend. I need to replace all of the blue zip ties with black ones... those are only temporary :)


The last thing I did was replace my smaller Momo wheel with a Nardi wheel that Keizo sent over (I decided to keep one for myself Keizo :)). I like the size of this wheel better, the Momo wheel is a little too small for me.

Today was another hot day, almost 90 degrees! I spent most of the morning at my friends mechanics shop helping him out, and then I went to the upholstery shop to order the leather for the seats in my G35. They will change the leather next Saturday.

I started working on the car today at about 2pm, and it was still very hot! I first installed the Blitz Sus Power Core Type LM air filter that Keizo sent me (thanks Keizo)! Very easy to install, I will paint the metal bracket black tomorrow.


I already wired and hooked the gauges up last weekend, so today I just needed to mount them all. I placed the Bee*R rev limiter close to the steering area and made a holder for the 2 Greddy gauges (boost controller and turbo timer). The holder is still very rough and I will smooth all the edges and paint it tomorrow.


Here is a picture of the interior... I am taking all of the sound deadening material out, and am finally almost finished. It is very time consuming and tedious to remove the sound deadening, so I've been doing very small amounts at a time. I plan on finished it tomorrow as well and hopefully painting it so the bare metal does not rust. Soon I will have a full roll cage welded in.

Before I post about the car, I was reading about the large earthquake that happened in Japan, and I hope everyone's family and friends are alright. We have not had a large earthquake here in California for sometime now, but they are always scary and devastating when they occur.

This weekend I installed the Bee*Racing rev limiter and GReddy Profec B Spec II boost controller into my s13. Everything was very easy to install thanks to the help that Keizo provided with the instructions (they were completely in Japanese). Here is a video of the rev limiter working-



Now that I have figured out how to post daily updates on here, I will try to update my profile more often with pictures and video as I install new modifications.