bgaidan
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The infamous NORD (that's the Nissan Frontier with the Ford bed) started acting up on the last trip to Kairos. The brake clean test indicated that it has a leaking intake gasket. Fun. So it got packed up and ignored for the last few months. Realizing that our annual Uwharrie run was coming in in 2 weeks, I finally dragged it out and started tearing in to it. My hopes that it would be easy and only be the upper plenum gasket were quickly killed when I get the upper manifold off and found nothing unusual with the gasket. Then I noticed that at least one of the nuts for the lower manifold was completely loose. Fuck.
Being the idiot that I am, I decided that since I have it torn down this far and I'm not going to want to do it again, I might was well throw that factory supercharger on while I'm at it. Why not? Luckily I had almost 2 complete setups, minus a few key parts here and there.
I ordered a gasket set and a bunch of the hoses that got fucked in the removal process or would be impossible to get to again once it was all bolted back together, and I went at it.
For the most part, the is a direct bolt-on swap. You need the lower manifold, the SC plenum and blower (obviously), the pulley bridge, harmonic balancer, a/c compressor and ECU.
The reason for swapping the harmonic balancer and compressor is that the blower runs a 6 rib belt around the HB-a/c compressor, two idlers and then the blower. The N/A uses a 4-rib belt that runs through the HB/compressor and idler. I don't have time to fuck with pulling the balancer and didn't want to have to vent and recharge the A/C so I did what any reasonable idiot would and just cut 2 ribs off the 6 rib belt. I'll see how long this lasts. My rationale at the moment is that this blower is pretty worn out with no coating left on the rotors. I have another blower that plan to rebuild and get the rotors recoated. When I swap that in, I'll worry about the belt. I'll probably throw a smaller pulley on the blower at the point too.
A box cutter made quick work or that belt de-ribbing:
Pretty much fully buttoned up. The hood closes enough to catch the safety latch, but won't close all the way. Gonna be getting a custom vented hood - a la sawzall.
Being the idiot that I am, I decided that since I have it torn down this far and I'm not going to want to do it again, I might was well throw that factory supercharger on while I'm at it. Why not? Luckily I had almost 2 complete setups, minus a few key parts here and there.
I ordered a gasket set and a bunch of the hoses that got fucked in the removal process or would be impossible to get to again once it was all bolted back together, and I went at it.
For the most part, the is a direct bolt-on swap. You need the lower manifold, the SC plenum and blower (obviously), the pulley bridge, harmonic balancer, a/c compressor and ECU.
The reason for swapping the harmonic balancer and compressor is that the blower runs a 6 rib belt around the HB-a/c compressor, two idlers and then the blower. The N/A uses a 4-rib belt that runs through the HB/compressor and idler. I don't have time to fuck with pulling the balancer and didn't want to have to vent and recharge the A/C so I did what any reasonable idiot would and just cut 2 ribs off the 6 rib belt. I'll see how long this lasts. My rationale at the moment is that this blower is pretty worn out with no coating left on the rotors. I have another blower that plan to rebuild and get the rotors recoated. When I swap that in, I'll worry about the belt. I'll probably throw a smaller pulley on the blower at the point too.
A box cutter made quick work or that belt de-ribbing:
Pretty much fully buttoned up. The hood closes enough to catch the safety latch, but won't close all the way. Gonna be getting a custom vented hood - a la sawzall.
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