projectpanda13

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Front lip looks good. It always surprises how the sport lip completely changes the look.

rotarymike

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Now I just have to figure out a way to keep pollen off of it until the paint can dry...

rotarymike

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So since I have the nose off I thought I'd put in the projector fogs...





Yeah, that isn't going to work. Gonna need to modify the mounting. A LOT.

rotarymike

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I'm thinking that I need the slimmer washer reservoir to fit behind the deeper fog lamp. What years and models did this come on? IE, 2008+ coupe? What about the G35 coupe? Any other nissan?

rotarymike

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So been a little bummed, had an extensive honey-do list this past weekend and no car work. Reminded daily by this:


So I decided to at least get it running again. Had changed the oil, was intending to install oil pressure sender for aftermarket gauge.



Now comes the challenge of getting the damn wires into the car.

projectpanda13

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What fitting did you use? This is something I'd like to do also.

rotarymike

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Most gauge senders are 1/8 NPT.

rotarymike

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So. Haven't driven the car since March (haven't driven hardly at all, anything, since March) but I have some stuff coming in.




Black wrinkle finish 2.5" tubing kit to fab long-tube CAI.

rotarymike

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Also painted my fog light trim rings.

rotarymike

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Got the R2C filters in, so time to make a long tube.

I've got these nifty (and beautiful) aluminum MAF housings with air straighteners, but they're 2.5" which is just big enough to throw off A/F on an untuned ECU. Stock airboxes have ~2.375 outlets. Some folks cut the MAF tube part off their stock air boxes. What's better than that? Cutting the MAF tube off someone else's air box. So took a socially distant trip to the junkyard - all day without wife or kid for the first time in 3 months. It was glorious.

My local junkyard crushed their last G37 2 days ago (grr) but I found that certain early 2000s Sentras have a separate MAF housing about the right size (60mm, what I measured the stock air boxes at) and the right MAF sensor fitting. Best part? Junkyard marked them as "plastic housing" and charged me $6 each.

Pics of the housing and after I cut the flange off.





Some time on the belt sander and with a scotchbrite sanding drum, and they were smooth clean and ready to go. I sanded down the raised "F" markings because I thought it might lead to an air leak - but that's downstream of the sensor so I wouldn't have realized it.

rotarymike

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Next was fitting all the tubes together to make what I needed, using the eBay generic intercooler piping kit.

Turns out the 45* pipes were just about perfect after I trimmed the radiator supports down.





I put the extra silicone couplers on the pipe where it went through the radiator support to cushion and prevent rattles.

rotarymike

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et voila...

rotarymike

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I'm not happy with the brackets I've made for the filter pipes, but they just need some tweaking and paint and they'll be fine. It was 1AM when I stopped so I wasn't keen on running power tools any more last night to finish them up.

Rochester

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Impressive project, Mike. Splash guard?

Rochester

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Looks like you're piggybacking off the T-bolts. I suspect if you use nyloc nuts, that approach should be fine. Sure, the brackets themselves are crude right now, but it's a proof-of-concept. You'll surely cut, file and paint.

Have you considered painting the clamps too? You're going to see that shiny through your grille.

Make sure your filter clamps are turned for top access to the clamp bolts, so that you can replace the filters by simple removing the rad shroud. Otherwise you might be creating a future bumper removal project. Maybe, IDK, just thinking out loud.