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[Justin]

Waiting on my clear cam cover and getting the flywheel turned then I'm good to go!


Here's what I have so far!

 

[Slow Poopra 7MGTE]

nice work, howcome your relocating ur oil filter but keeping the stock housing?

 

[ma71supraturbo]

Probably to maintain the use of the stock thermostat for the oil cooler

 

[Justin]

Yeah, all I want to do is move the filter, thats it. So that's what I did!

 

[americanjebus]

that is one of the most beuitiful looking 7m's yet, and colorful at that.

wuts your grand total $?

 

[ToyoHabu]

Dang thats nice, soo nice that you wont be able to put it in your car but on display in your living room or local musuem :icon_smil

 

[Adjuster]

Looks familliar there color wise. LOL

Just one point of caution, I found out the hard way that powdercoated AC and alternator brackets don't conduct electricity very well. (Especially to ground.) It fried my compressor clutch, and the only thing I can figure is the ground to the engine via the bracket was poor, allowed the clutch to slip, and that heated it up, and melted the potting material.

I've since added two additonal grounds. One to the grounding point on the compressor housing, and another from the compressor case at a mount bolt, to the chassis at a bolt for the sway bar bracket. (Just get some 10ga wire, crimp on connectors and go to town. You can't have too good of a ground on the compressor.) I grounded the top wire at the stock ground location to the main chassis ground just behind the fuse box.

I have also carefully filed off some powdercoating on the alternator bracket. (Photo one was just there to put the motor into the car, the final one is powdercoated candyapple red.) And I added a 4ga ground wire to the alternator and battery terminal, so now I have a great ground setup.

 

[Justin]

Looks familliar there color wise. LOL

Just one point of caution, I found out the hard way that powdercoated AC and alternator brackets don't conduct electricity very well. (Especially to ground.) It fried my compressor clutch, and the only thing I can figure is the ground to the engine via the bracket was poor, allowed the clutch to slip, and that heated it up, and melted the potting material.

I've since added two additonal grounds. One to the grounding point on the compressor housing, and another from the compressor case at a mount bolt, to the chassis at a bolt for the sway bar bracket. (Just get some 10ga wire, crimp on connectors and go to town. You can't have too good of a ground on the compressor.) I grounded the top wire at the stock ground location to the main chassis ground just behind the fuse box.

I have also carefully filed off some powdercoating on the alternator bracket. (Photo one was just there to put the motor into the car, the final one is powdercoated candyapple red.) And I added a 4ga ground wire to the alternator and battery terminal, so now I have a great ground setup.

eheh, nice! Maybe I saw yours and subconciously wanted the same thing! I remember seeing yours before I got mine done.

Thanks for the electrical advice! I hadn't even thought about that. The AC isn't going to be functional for a while, but I am going to install the hardware...

I will definatly look more into that... my car is going to have excellent grounds Just wait and see

 

[americanjebus]

on a side note, i'm seeing allot of imports with grounding kits and some benefiting from it quite a bit,

do our 7m's benefit much at all from bigger ground wires and cleaner terminals for an all around better ground?

 

[CTsupra]

^ i'd say so for all cars. it definitely wouldn't hurt.

arospeed has some nice ground wires, if anyone cares.

nice pics Justin. looking good!

 

[Adjuster]

I agree a good ground is critical to making everything work right.

I can't tell you guys how many times on older cars that I've worked on, we would determine that an electrical part had stopped working, and by simply removing the part, checking it and putting it back together, it would clean up the ground, and the part would work again. Sometimes it was as simple as unplugging the part, and plugging it back in again. (Cleans up the contacts, and "supprise" it's fine.)

Many parts like relays are grounded by the mounting brackets, and when the bolt holding them in place corrodes, the ground is lost over time, and the relay stops working. You will even find a white chalky amount of corrosion sometimes on the bolt, or mounting surface where the ground used to be.

A good ground is very important with your cooling system too. (This is why the head ground is important.) Coolant can become the better ground when connections corrode, and this causes electrolisis, and that eats up the metal inside your head. You can see the effects of this around the coolant passeges next to the head gasket where the coolant was grounding the head to the block. It actually errodes the metal over time.

 

[Justin]

I work in a stereo installation bay, so I've got plenty of four gauge/0 gauge wire laying around. I have some bigass battery terminals... I'm going to go to town with grounding stuff

I'll post pics once I get done