99 GSX Rebirth/Clean-Up/Build

[bettfootball]

Yo!

I got my Racedeck tiles in, a bunch of black, the transition pieces and some spare grey pieces.

Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

My exhaust should be here tonight as well. Super stoked!

Peace!

 

[bettfootball]

Exhaust is in! HKS Carbon TI. Full stainless unlike the mild steel Apexi. Also one less resonator, seems to be a much better design also.

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Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

Didn't necessarily want the Carbon muffler, but oh well! Only $540 shipped cyber monday.


Peace!

-Brady

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

I wonder if they still use 409 stainless as they used to many years ago, its a nice system and sounds great as i seen them on a few other car chassis.
Hold a magnet to it and see if they do still use it as it will stick. Hopefully they went to 304

 

[RWD4G63]

Really nice car you've got here. Love the TE37s!

 

[bettfootball]

Yo,

I finally added another white cabinet, and painted the whole garage bright white. I'm thinking of doing an accent stripe at +60 or so. Maybe black/grey with small red stripe.
Going to add some posters and some upper cabinets, with shelving or peg board above my workbench.

Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

Peace!

-Brady

 

[bettfootball]

A couple things to update on. I took the new HKS Carbon exhaust to a local fab guy and had him remove the 2.5" section, add a v-band, and shorten the exhaust a bit to get it to fit in the original exhaust channel. It came out great. I'm super happy with it, all hangers connected, and doesn't rub my driveway anymore.

I've also got a lot of my winter refresh items in.

-OE Rear Hubs/Bearings
-1G t-stat housing
-1G Water pipe
-OEM 1G lower rad hose
-OEM 6 Bolt black timing cover
-OEM timing cover bolts
-OEM OFH
-ACL Oil pump
-OEM Stubby shaft for the ACL pump
-SPC front adjustable balljoints

Going to start tearing the car down and getting this stuff wrapped up. Want to pull the t-case and rear diff to refresh those as well as check for metal shavings etc. Would also like to re-do bushings in the rear as they are OEM with 125k on them.

Peace!

-Brady

 

[SNAKE_15]

There's always that happy feeling buying brand new parts even though it's not cheap! I was always told to go OEM oil pump but hopefully you don't have issues with an aftermarket one!

 

[Vegas Smith]

I'd like to a get a sound clip of that exhaust. May put one on my 1g.

 

[bettfootball]

There's always that happy feeling buying brand new parts even though it's not cheap! I was always told to go OEM oil pump but hopefully you don't have issues with an aftermarket one!

Definitely! As for the oil pump, did a decent amount of research. Seems the stubby shaft is a huge problem with OE pumps. Will check the gears, de-burr everything, check flatness and should be good to go. $120 versus +$400 was worth me trying the ACL. A big reason for any of this is to fix a small oil leak I've had for 10 years, so may possible just re-use my OEM 6 bolt if it checks out!

I'd like to a get a sound clip of that exhaust. May put one on my 1g.

Will do! Won't be for a while though. There are a ton of clips on youtube though.

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

I dont remember if i asked or its been spoken about before but did you do a power steering delete or go with a hydro pump unit? I just noticed the PS pump gone

 

[bettfootball]

I dont remember if i asked or its been spoken about before but did you do a power steering delete or go with a hydro pump unit? I just noticed the PS pump gone

PS is gone and no pump. Would like a hydro unit but I would need a revamp of alternator/charging setup. Depowered the rack myself. I deal with it but I'm pretty used to it

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

PS is gone and no pump. Would like a hydro unit but I would need a revamp of alternator/charging setup. Depowered the rack myself. I deal with it but I'm pretty used to it

I dont know how i missed it before, maybe i did and forgot to mention it. How you like manual steering? Everyone has mixed reviews on it but at least you done the depower correctly.

 

[bettfootball]

I dont know how i missed it before, maybe i did and forgot to mention it. How you like manual steering? Everyone has mixed reviews on it but at least you done the depower correctly.

I like the way it cleans up the bay more than how much I dislike the lack of power steering, if that makes sense. I've had no PS for years so don't really have any complaints as I forgot what it is like without it

 

[bettfootball]

Sup guys.

Finally tore into the pig to replace the oil pump.

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Untitled by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

Doing a little oil cleanup etc while i'm down here. May pull the Pan... Not sure yet though. Actually, I'm definitely going to .

Switching to the 1g water pipe/t-stat housing set up FINALLY. Just need to send these to get powdercoated wrinkle black and have the holes welded up.

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Also forgot about how ported my relief is on the old OFH. Need to buy a dremel to match the porting on the new OFH.

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I ordered a couple new connectors from OHM. TPS and MDP/MAP. They were both brittle and would wriggle loose, rending the car dead in its tracks until I parked, opened the hood and pressed them in harder. So definitely happy I'm finally doing that.

Two things I would like to do while I'm down there are:

-Re-attach the ALT blue wire back to the battery light on the dash. This has been giving me problems with charging only once I rev the motor above 3k or so.
-Re-connect the side marker lights. I had unfortunately deleted one for some reason a few years ago, so they were both unplugged. I plan on just tying into the passenger light for ground/power instead of tearing the harness apart again... I believe this is fine unless someone says otherwise?

Peace.

-Brady

 

[JPenny]

Hey I'm not to sure on all your wiring but if you throw a relay in there for your side markers and pull power from the battery and use the passenger light as the trigger for the relay then you shouldn't have any problems or burn anything up. Just my thoughts thank you for your time, Jason Penny

 

[dskagr]

Cleanest 2g around, daily's it too. In all seriousness, this makes me want to do a complete refresh too. Good work man, mad jelly of the garage.

 

[bettfootball]

Yo!

So with all this quarantine stuff I figured it was the BEST time to go nuts on the car.

-Removing everything, (sub frames, drive shaft, gas tank, exhaust diff t case etc etc)
-Removing all the gunk and grime and as much as the old dried out undercoating
-Powdercoating/painting everything
-New 3M undercoating, or raptor liner. Haven't decided. The 3M stuff is really nice though, my front wheel wells are currently done in 3M.

Parts I have gotten:
-6AN feed kit, tank to rail
-Fuelab filter
-Mishimoto upper rad
-All axle seals, all t-case/rear diff/trans seals
-Full Energy suspension bushing kit
-New water pump
-New rear hubs/bearings (fronts were done 2k miles ago)
-All front suspension components are OE replacements, which I will replace all the bushings with Energy's kit.

All of this is because the car will be getting a full glass-out respray in Northstar White when the undercarriage/suspension bits are done.

On to the pics!

Ready for the tear down, excuse the IG filter

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So yeah, there she is! The body shop I took it into cut me a deal if I bring them the car fully disassembled and hand deliver all the pieces separately so figured why not just start now.

 

[92AWDHX40]

Might as well dig in her deep, and get it refreshed. I'm still at mine its finally coming along.

 

[bettfootball]

Might as well dig in her deep, and get it refreshed. I'm still at mine its finally coming along.

Yeah exactly. Plan to dig deep.

 

[92AWDHX40]

In been updating my thread love yous.

 

[camocorvette]

Just stumbled across your car and thread. Love that garage you've created!

 

[Dusty Landrum]

Man this is exactly how my rebuild started.. heard a slight squeak in one rear shock and stuck a pick through my drivers side rear rocker and bam.. car has been on jackstands for 4 months with the entire bottom dropped to the frame! Haha figured since I have the time and want it 100% might as well!

 

[bettfootball]

Man this is exactly how my rebuild started.. heard a slight squeak in one rear shock and stuck a pick through my drivers side rear rocker and bam.. car has been on jackstands for 4 months with the entire bottom dropped to the frame! Haha figured since I have the time and want it 100% might as well!

Haha love it. I've neglected the underneath/suspension since I've had this car. Time to make it right!

Now since I'm removing everything I figured I would start with the rear subframe. It has never been removed on this car. I had it out in around 30 minutes thanks to me just cutting the trailing arms as I will be replacing those anyway . The e-brake cable brackets all came off as well, just need to hop inside and disconnect them so they can pull out.

Next up is gas tank and drive shaft.

-Brady

 

[FIBA M - EC17PSE]

I think your rust is about as bad as mine. Hows yours upper cross over piece above the fuel tank? Mine rotted away so didnt know if yours did the same

 

[bettfootball]

I think your rust is about as bad as mine. Hows yours upper cross over piece above the fuel tank? Mine rotted away so didnt know if yours did the same

You'll see below, but Honestly I didn't think it was bad at all underneath.

So I got the subframe pulled out, just had to take the center console apart to remove the e-brake cables and slid it out.

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Then the next thing was driveshaft, exhaust shields, and gas tank/shield.

I went ahead and just cut the fuel lines, will be replacing them.

Another thing I ran into were the brake lines. They are gross and seem to be pretty rusty.. Not sure what to do about that. Re-make them? Run flex brake lines? Any input would be greatly appreciated!

Peace,

-Brady