Ever wonder what it takes to turbo a 3000GT

[emc3000gt]

^^Shitty cut wires.

[dohcterek]

all aside its got some fancy fittings are a nice line on it.

[emc3000gt]

Pretty sure I just resold it for double plus shipping to some dude in Norway.

[emc3000gt]

Test fit all my gauges and what not last night. The spot next to the two gauges above the radio is going to house my warning lamp for my radar detector.

[dohcterek]

nice progress. looks like youve got quite the project on your hands.

[emc3000gt]

Welded in my EGT bung and hooked up the manifold last night. Along with bored out an existing hole through my fire wall for my EGT and boost gauge wires to run through.... Great idea. The bit grabbed the throttle cable. So I need a new one. Which is a blessing in disguise because it had some broken strands any way.

All went well as I was putting the rear manifold on until the last bolt on the thing. I just couldn't get a wrench, ratchet, finger on it. So off came the rear motor mount bracket, which was a good thing as well as I had to swap out the rear mount for a solid...


3 HOURS LATER I'm still not done.

First the reamer bolt that goes through the mount was on like no other. I couldn't get a breaker bar in because of my hood I was in a slightly precarious position. Think motor in car 16 inches off the ground and me inside the engine bay with the motor.

SO I decided to take a chance with my broken 18 inch long ratchet. It doesn't like to stay in gear and likes to switch to neutral, as in it will freely spin both ways. (I broke it while fixing the car the first time on my driver side motor mount. It gave up and flew right through the window in the garage at a high rate of speed. (I probably had 50 or so FT/LBS on it.) Any way it held and bam the bolt came loose. Then the four holding the mount.

Well at this point the mount won't slide off. And I still have to take the bracket off to get to this bolt on the manifold. So I crawl under the engine. (there is an engine hoist and a jack holding the motor) ANd release the three bolts on the bottom of the bracket.. its not coming off. 20 minutes later I find the last bolt and off comes the bracket tight goes the manifold, on goes the mount on goes the three bottom bolts on the bracket and now I can't find the hole.

So knowing its almost two I decide to clean up and get to sleep as I have work today.

[emc3000gt]

^^Rear manifold with the EGT sensor Welded in.



^^Me putting that damn manifold or dealing with the rear mount... One of the two.


Its crooked in the pic but I fixed that.

[emc3000gt]

Update. I got the night off last night so it started at radio shack... they were useless and it annoys me to talk about it. So onto home Depot where I pick up some electrical connectors and then to McDonalds because I hadn't eaten yet and it was almost 530. 3 double cheese burgers later a 30 minute ride home and the sudden urge to puke (I kept it down by turning the AC on and putting the windows up) I made it home to start my wiring.

I put the battery in the car hooked it up and took my tester and found the wire in the C59 clip, tapped into that with a fused line and ran that to my center console.

Now the Autometer gauges have two things that need power. The actual gauge, and the light. The lights I am running off my dimmer switch... which I can't get to dim. So F that. But the wires are tapped so I left those powered by that. Ran the rest and when it was all done I turned the key and, the EGT and Wideband start up and the boost gauge says fuck you Eric. so I take my tester I have no power check the splice into my pwr wire and I have nothing so I resplice and now its all good.

I even hooked up my air hose to the vac line and the gauge works, It doesn't snap, so I'm not incredibly pleased but maybe that will change when its getting its air from the engine instead of a bike pump. Either way the peak hold and warning lights work. About to call it a night and my wideband resets.

Then it resets again, and again, now its off and just makes a whirring noise. Well one of the wires going into the gauge is crap. Problem is the gauge can't be opened so I can't fix it. It will have to do for now. Just no one buy it when I sell it later.



so a majority of the gauge wiring is done. I have to go back and take the red cover off the boost gauge light... it makes it hard to read at night. I have to rewire my stereo ground. and Splice in my SAFC.

[dohcterek]

any closer to getting it on the road?

[dohcterek]

Did you get it running?

[emc3000gt]

Yeah its running.

Had a small... well kinda large oil leak from my one feed line the part is at home waiting to be put in tonight. then I get to put the brakes back on and go attempt to get a base tune.

[dohcterek]

nice, this has been a long project but going to be well worth it in the end

[emc3000gt]

I swear to God this thing is a pain in my ass I should have just taken a week off from work and did this in one shot instead of when I had time at night after 10 hours of work.

It starts,
It idles,
it has everything read to go....

and then I break the fucking caliper putting it back on.

[emc3000gt]

Ok so this is the update right before I actually drive the car.

Last night I was up until 3 almost 4 in the morning finishing up the car.

First thing first the caliper is going on the car. SO I swap the pads get the caliper on. Start the car pump 3 times and I have no pedal feel back...

I go back check everything start the car pump the pedal still no pressure.. I check the reservoir, its a little low so I put some fluid in guess I lost more then I though when the old caliper blew up on me. Open the bleeder stomp on the brake, shoot fluid about a 8 feet (good thing for me putting cardboard down) tighten the bleeder press the brake and I have better feed back then I did back when I bought the car.

SO off to the rest

I finished putting the front bumper on the headlights back in and then stupid me put the plastic surround for the passenger lamp on the ground... Do you know what dumbass me did? Yup stepped on them.

SO I spent some time with super glue and a heat gun. ANd then the heat gun explodes and all goes black...

Let me explain... The heat gun exploded... I'm not joking. Its working and then I hear a tick tick, I give it a little shake a huge blue flame shoots out the vent and then it blows the breaker... SO I fumble my way through the garage into the house down stairs in the boiler room find it fix it go back outside and toss the gun to the side The plastic will have to air dry. (I coulda made that more funny but I'm running on four hours of sleep)

So I go to put the plastic on the lamp and it interferes with the snake eye lens... so I take the bracket to the band saw and "modify it"

Then looking under my hood I notice hmm its a mess. SO I re route my vacuum lines zip tie stuff down and double check the bolts and for tools. ALL CLEAR AND THE HOOD IS DOWN Just have to open it again to put the battery booster seat under the battery and the tie down on and I'm gonna add a little oil before I drive it tonight.

I then put the new clips on for my side skirts pop them in and California dust the car.

Moving inside I clean out the back seat. And call it a night.


Stuff for tonight is to put the carpet panels back on the center console. Vacuum the floor from all the little crap that I dropped there while wiring the gauges and what not. Put the driver side wheel on lower the car enough to where I can get 166 FT/LBS on the axle nut and then go tune.

It should be a good picture of me getting that torque on the nut. TO get it off it took a 50 pound asphalt stamper slide over my ratchet to break it loose.

I'll also check the torque on my crank pulley