GTSBoy

Technically, the thing you're holding in your hand isn't the clockspring. It's the steering angle sensor for the HICAS. The clockspring is inside the column shroud - it's what handles the indicators.

Well, yeah. Try loosening everything. Just because something is sold as "bolt on" does not mean that it will mate up with all the other OEM or "bolt on" parts that are there. Especially Chinabay exhaust bits. I would suggest, if you cannot get it all to go together while everything else is loose without leaving a gap somewhere, that you are going to have to pay someone to cut the flange off one end of something and weld it back so that it will mate up.

Had a look at the air filter?

Just look inside the ECU you have (in the car already, not the bare one) to see how it's done.

You didn't live through the 2000s? They were on every street corner. About 1 per every 10 metallic red ones, to be sure, but nonetheless.

Worst idea ever. Pay cash. As if financing a 30 year old Datto makes sense.

If you're going to that much effort (ie, buying an R33 ECU just for a case that you then have to modify), either just fold your own up out of 1.2mm sheet steel/ally or put it in a plastic kitchen storage box.

Coz it don't fit. Different mounting points inside, different loom plug opening.

no

That's the steering rack boot. It keeps the bits inside away from the nasty shitty dirty gravel strewn mess that is the outside world in a car's wheel arch. You do not want all that crap getting in with metal on metal joints and gear teeth. Especially considering the grease and oil in there for it to stick to.

Don't leave the rack boot open any longer than you have to.

Maybe. I bought inner and outer door window strips for not too much not too long ago (like <2 yrs). Door hinges are still only ~$30 trade.

No more than 4 years ago.

Given that that's a Neo motor, there's also the R34 workshop manual out there to be downloaded. Filename R34 Workshop Manual English.pdf , size 12966KB (usually).

The rod ends that GK-Tech use are pretty good, in terms of mechanical strength (and max articulation angle, and PTFE lining, and rubber boots, etc). You may well have given it a hot supper though. If it was not tightened while centered and had lots of toe-in there could/would/should have been some nasty loads applied to it.

Usually they warp because they got soft because they got cooked. But there are obviously a bunch of ways this can happen.

My suggestion is.....when you tightened it up you ended up with the spherical joint hard up against one side. You have to be real careful with these to make sure that the ball is centred when the arm is on, tight and sitting at ride height. If it is hard up against one side, or has very little travel left on one side, then when you move the joint in that direction it changes from a beraring to a pin joint instantly and you get all the torque on tha arm applied across the section of the thread.

Given that the clips snap into place when installing, I'm pretty sure that they don't come out from under the trim. I think the sliding movement to release them just squishes them so that they flex and their tangs come out from under the lip they hook onto. I've had them off about 20 years ago. Just fiddled around with the screwdriver until they released.

It's all in the manual

Why not just look at the diagrams and put it back the way it is supposed to be instead of worrying about it? I swear, the things that cause threads in this place.

That will depend on why it warped. If the head bolts loosened at that end....

No need to add the extra hardware. The Haltech can ring all the bells and blink all the lights you will ever want.

Check the battery in the remote first. Just pull it out and use an (assume 3V) cell to test it with, even if you have to use pokey wires to make contact. 2x AA batteries will do the job if you need, or dig into the kitchen scales, bike computer, TV remote, etc, to find a CR2032 or whatever matches the remote's battery. It's quite possible that the thing has done a panic and locked the immobiliser. You would be advised to work out what model the alarm is and google the instructions to find out what sort of rain dance you're supposed to do to fix it.

Yes, but there are inevitably differences in what the engine harness connects to on the body side. You need to work through both harnesses and sort out the differences. So, actually, the answer is no, if you just want to drop it in. You will need to generate a 0-5v square wave speed signal to give to the ECU and other computers so they don't freak out. The ECU less so, seeing as you're using Haltech, but the ABS computer (and auto TCU if present) will want it. The stock speedo head does this for you, and if you remove it..... The differences you will need to sort out pertain to alternator wiring, air-con wiring (if you're going to use R34 parts), gearbox loom wiring possibly, plus the probably differences in the ECCS relays and other relays near the ECU.

Dash gauge MAP sensor. Sensor mounts on that stud behind your hand in that photo.