Thread: '97 200sx SE-R VE Swap

summit 8969??

pics or your banned lol

Haha I got the switch wired in last night, had to cherry-rig it for now (TOTALLY messy) because I was too anxious to try it out! I have the switch wired directly to battery right now so it's always on, did you tap into ignition switch for yours Lynch? You can't hear VVL inside the car at higher RPM's but I raced my buddy's Neon R/T last night (he used to BARELY beat me with the almost stock DE before, now I pull him hard, leave him by a couple lengths in 3rd) and he said you can hear it really well from outside the car, I have it kicking in at 4,500rpm's right now. Will take pics when I get off work. I need to adjust my clutch cable though, I don't remember how the washers went on before but right now it's kind of hard to get it in gear, was reading a couple threads and saw that if you get a 1" to 3/4" reducer and put it in line of the clutch cable and the bracket it allows for a lot more adjustment so I'll try that this weekend. Did I say the car pulls A LOT harder now compared to before?

Apologies for the delay in picture and video, I've been pretty busy with work and school. The problems I have left to fix are putting my muffler on, cleaning up the VVL wiring and the main problem I am facing right now is a high pitched squealing when the clutch pedal is fully engaged, It has to be throwout bearing but I can't think of what would cause that squealing only when the clutch is in other than not greasing something? Any input would be great, if necessary I can get video of the noise and post it

I snapped a pic right as I got home of the engine bay, messy I know but I thought I'd post SOMETHING in the meantime

so your still having TOB issues?

refresh my memory, did you reuse the pressure plate? did you grease the tob enough?

does it squeel every time you push the clutch in? even if your moving? or just when its sitting?

whats with that gold looking exhaust manifold?

thats what an "ssac" header looks like the first few times its ran.. eventually it turns bluish pruple..

The original TOB issue was that it broke after I put it in not allowing the clutch to fully disengage and I couldn't get it into gear with the car on, now the TOB (or what I'm guessing is the TOB) squeals when you are not moving and when you are moving at idle RPM's if the clutch is in. I covered the original TOB in grease (applicable area's at least) and didn't want to overdo it this time so I just wiped grease off the broken TOB and onto the new one (maybe not enough or not in the right area(s))?

So when I turn the car on the TOB squeals (clutch is in) if i SLIGHTLY take my foot off the pedal not to the point where you are moving, the TOB sound gets quieter and quieter and when I am moving (clutch is out) the TOB doesn't make the noise. If you are moving and have the clutch in it will sqeal at around 2k RPM's and below.

Here is a pic of the clutch cable:



I forgot how it went on so there is a little bit of slack in the cable

And a video of the clutch sound (turn your speakers/headphones down, it's pretty bad):

Gnarly TOB sound when clutch is engaged - YouTube

I may have to face that the tranny needs to be dropped again but if at all possible I can try something else before I result to that I will be more than willing to try it

Their Megan Racing Headers, when hot the material they were made of turns colors

lol that bearing sounds toast man..

did you re use the old clutch pressure plate? whats it look like?

time to take the trans off again.