After getting a lead from a board member (you know who you are) I bought a clip from Karim at R390 Sports. He was very nice and knowledgable on the phone.
http://www.nissan180.8k.com/.
Karim
Encino, Ca 91316
(818)-345-7289
E:Mail racer98@earthlink.net
I wanted a clip with an uncut harness from the trunk to the kickpanel, and I got that and much much more. Nearly every wire on the front of the car was included, everything from under the dash, and I haven't found one that was cut yet, they were all unplugged. I'm sure I just got lucky, but was very happy. The car this came out of was in an accident (obviously), and was supposedely running right up until a few weeks before I bought the clip. Anways, I paid $4,000 + $300 shipping. That's alot, and in a few years, that will probably be twice as much as the current rate, but oh well. I knew I wanted a gen3 engine way more than a rebuilt gen2. So, I started selling off parts of the gen2, and probably made around $1000, and still have parts left to sell, so that helped a bit. I was very happy with the service I got, so definitely reccommend him. Another good place would be Motors Unlimited. I don't have any experience anywhere else.
January 11th, 2003
10:51 PM
Thought I'd update you guys. I got my 3rd gen clip Wednesday January the 8th. It looks pretty good. The car was hit in the passenger side, probably a 15 mph impact (I don't get to have the TWIN CAM 16 VALVE sticker on both sides now ). There's alot of that aluminum corrosion on it that I hate, but all the wiring is intact, and I even got some extra stuff from the front of the car with it, like ABS ECU and some others. Anyone see my ABS ECU thread ???
This might be funny/interesting to some of you... The shipping company brought it out to me in a big (giant) U-Haul style truck with only a liftgate to get it out. They didn't verify that there'd be any way for me to get it out of the truck.
At first glance, I was now going to have to pay to have them send it back, then rent a truck, rent a fork lift, then pay to have them come out and then finally get it out of the truck and onto my driveway with the forklift (probably costing $400 - $500 more). Then, I talked to the truck driver for a minute, found out the weight of the clip was 1,300 lbs, and for the heck of it pushed on the rear of the clip (it was not lined up with the truck, it was front of the clip facing the drivers side of the truck, and rear of the clip facing passenger side) with all my 145 pounds of strength, and it moved about an inch. I looked at the driver and raised my eyebrow. I convinced him to help me push it inch by inch, side by side towards the liftgate.
I came up with a plan to use this old truck I have and some rope to pull the clip onto the liftgate, then once lowered, to pull the clip off of the liftgate, and onto the driveway. Well, that didn't work, because the rope broke. Then I got some chain out, and the clip got stuck on some metal reinforments on the lift gate. So, we had to struggle with that for a while. The best part was, once we got it onto the liftgate, it was 1 1/2 feet too long to fit. So, we got it as far as it would go, and when we lowered it, the clip started to angle downwards, and it was in danger of flipping off of the liftgate. In the end, we used my truck to tow it, and him lowering the gate at the same time and finally got it down safely to sea level with a combo of luck and timing. Now, I had to get it onto the ground. I didn't want to scratch up my lovely driveway, so threw two railroad ties (I have tons on my property) under the liftgate, then tried to tow the clip onto the railroad ties with my beater truck. The drive wheel just spun and spun. Hmmm..., we looked for anything sticking, and unstuck one of the crossmember stays from the liftgate, then tried again, same results. We finally got it off (I wish I had a picture of this) by having him drive the giant truck, me driving my beater truck the opposite direction with no traction, being dragged backwards inch by inch, finally I just stepped on the brakes, and that did the trick (I guess 4 wheels locked up was more friction than 1 wheel spinning), and the clip slid onto the railroad ties. I was laughing the whole time, hoping my neighbors weren't watching.
I was so tired, I just cleaned up, put the truck away, and went in for a nap.
Next up is raising the clip up from the railroad ties. I'll try to use the engine hoist, and jacks and stands. We'll see how it goes. The best thing about pulling and engine from a clip is that you don't care about the body, or scratching, breaking, denting, cutting things off of it.
January 19th, 2003
02:17 AM
I took some pics yesterday...
I believe it's a 94 - 96 car, mainly because of the shift knob stitching and steering wheel. Any thoughts on this?
I have the complete steering wheel... Does that type of steering wheel support an airbag? If it does, there is not one inside it. Can I swap in one from my 91T?
The valve cover throttle body and pipes are very corroded. I'll probably get them all powdercoated. Most everything else looks like it will clean up nicely. CT-20b looks in good shape. There are no oil leaks that I can see. I would have liked a little cleaner engine for the price.
How much play should a CT-20b have?
I only took one pic of the wiring. They did an awesome job of unplugging every single wire from the front of the car, I didn't know that many wires ran to the front, now I gotta figure out what is needed.
Pics range from Jan 19th to March 18th
All covered up
Pretty corroded, but should clean up ok.
CT-20B
Baby oil pan.
Tranny doesn't line up 100% to the block. Also, we noticed the view port for the flywheel teeth and surface (black plastic cover).
Quick custom bracing for the downpipe.
