GTSBoy

Buy Radical, do it to that.

It is best that you put the gearbag back into the car and sit the engine as it will be installed, rather than trying to emulate the correct angle with blocks of wood and internet advice. Just do the work.

Yes, I fear the consumption rate of spares like that has ramped up since the various US and Euro owners have started in on them.

Gates are famous for it. Nowhere near as good as Pitwork/Nissan.

That logic doesn't really follow. The ports on the NA head are small. At least big holes in the gasket to suit the torque killer manifold that you're using won't get in the way.

Well, think about what you know that IS different between the engines (ie, the tiny tiny inlet ports) and what is not different (ie, the bore diameter and spacing!) and....

Depends on what gaskets you're talking about. Inlet manifold gasket, for example, probably different.

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.

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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.