Latest pics of the almera rebuild

Big day today thanks to the help of Ian (Raceworx) and Minty.

Engine and gearbox out! Undid the lower mounts, wishbones, steering arms etc, then lowered the car to the floor and undid the side mounts. The cut the front off to slide the engine out.






And all packed up nicely at the end of the day.


Going to crack on with wiring tomorrow (Although Ian doesnt know this yet).

Todays work, we managed to rewire the black GTi using the red GTi loom, unfortunately it is not cured, there is spark and fuel but nothing happens, maybe no compression which could mean engine out.
Almera workshop:


Dash out, Dave and Minty removing dash loom.

We thought maybe the injectors were at fault so swapped the fuel rails


But they were ok in the end.
Scrapping cars takes up a lot of room:


So Dave is bringing round his compression tester tomorrow and his laptop so we can see if there is a fault code. Hopefully we'll get a proper diagnosis.
Still I'm really pleased with what was done today, the replacement ECU/Ignition barrel and loom work fine! Just maybe the engine is at fault.
Massive thanks to everyone who came down to help today (JNC Massif)

so is it the engine that was init when ian had it? the one that cocked up in water....then took it to nissan and it ran for a day and cocked up agian? oooo out of intrset in the first picture, whats ian doing to his almera? lowering

Yeah it still has the original engine in it but it may be fudged.

oh another question! the electric window switchs on the almera...what are the conector blocks like? as my pass one on my micra has broke...the ball bearings have feel out and everything so i need a switch, in connector! ive heard the primera ones are the same....have you got a mera one? i.e off the red one? pas side?

also wouldnt mind a almera gti leather steering wheel for my micra you got one of those aswell?

Aint got no spares sorry as used the switched for the black one, and yeah I got a steering wheel but I aint removing it lol.

Yeah it was! To think we got around NATS and installed the electrical system from another car in a day (I sy we, it was mostly Dave and Minty)

what engine you dropping in? the engine that was in the red micra thats in the boot or the one from the red almera?

squarepants wrote:

also wouldnt mind a almera gti leather steering wheel for my micra you got one of those aswell?

why? it aint jap racer and it would be like driving a bus?!

squarepants wrote:

what engine you dropping in? the engine that was in the red micra thats in the boot or the one from the red almera?

The one from the red micra project, its to hand and we know it runs, the red almera engine was broken.

because its std and its leather better than my standard air bag one but i might aswell just use my k10 one...strugguling to wire the horn up tho

Ok so todays antics (Not that anyone seems to reads this )

Still no engine start, ran diagnostic program with the laptop and no ECU faults.
Spark at all 4 plugs and injectors are working. The engine has a strange noise when it turns though, like a stone being dropped into a pond.
So we think it may be mechanical not electrical BUT the ECU/Loom swap was a success as NATS doesnt interfere.
Maybe something like a smashed/loose piston ring. The oil dipstick absolutely stank of petrol too.
SO the 68,000 mile SR20 is coming out and we are installing the RaceworX engine with ported head and inlets and skimmed head/block, so maybe slightly higher compression IF it works.
So now gratuitous pics.
Had a visit from CFN_MAC and CoV today (Iain and Paul) which was nice for a bit of banter, as well as me, raceworx, tommo, dave and minty (Thanks go out especially to dave and raceworx as they are helping one hell of a lot).
Car park almera meet (Ian standing on my micra)



CoV and Mac

Tommo

Ian

Take this out

Secret weapon

Not working

AAAARGH

Nice to have a GTi as a reference point

Pimp bumpers max flower stylee



Engine is almost ready to take out, collecting the crane early tomorrow to try and get them swapped for the afternoon. Heres hoping...

ITS ALIVE


I'll upload some pics and raceworx has some vid of the startup.

It had no ancillaries on it at all, but it didnt even stutter just fired straight up!

Thank god for that as it really was 11th hour for me.

In 3 days the Jap-n-crazy crew have removed 2 SR20s, installed another, lowered an almera, and rewired an entire GTi, all with basic tools.
Just proves that hard work and patience can pay off.

The working almera has cost me £430.

was great to hear it fire up mate and there aint alot dave and ian cant do with a big hammer and an angle grinder lol

alot of work went in but well worth it

Jim