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It lives again! Cut the metal pipes off the cradle and body with a mini hacksaw and fitted Aeroflow hardline to AN adapters to put a -6 AN line where the previous rubber line was. Also replaced the cactus stock pump with the Deatschwerks DW300, which to my surprise was a 100% drop-in replacement, even the electrical connector was the same, and the lower bracket with rubber isolator fit perfectly too, that was a pleasant surprise for sure. Only problem I have now is I'm 95% sure the factory jet pump that draws fuel from the passenger side of the tank is restricting the return too much, which is causing my fuel pressure to be at about 55psi at idle/low load instead of the normal 42psi. Dammit, I was hoping to not have to pull the back seats out again any time soon, they're so god damned heavy and awkward to remove T_T

In other good news, finally finished painting the Evo 5 wheels I bought months ago, and man did they turn out m i n t. Painted in Nissan Titanium Grey (KAC), they're a dark almost gunmetal silver/grey, but when the sun hits them you get this lovely bronze-y colour to them and it looks awesome.

So more fun times for me in the past week or so, got the Radium FPR fitted, but not before dropping one of the fuel rail spacers down the back of the engine and having it literally disappear into the abyss. Replaced it, and put RTV on all 3 so when I next remove the rail they stay stuck to the head.

Got the Evo 8 ECU in and running too, car drives great with it (after I swapped the IACV, and adjusted the BISS because it was set so wrong that the car would just refuse to idle after a short while on the E8 ECU, I'm surprised it was able to idle at all on the stock ECU, it seemed like it was basically screwed all the way in). Interestingly despite all the information on hand saying otherwise, I had to swap the fuel pump relay and fuel pressure solenoid pins back around to their original configuration as my wiring harness does NOT have them swapped from factory and as such instead shares the same pinout as the Evo III.

It hasn't been all sunshine and roses though, on Tuesday this week it left me stranded at work when the fuel pump decided it was a great time to cark it. "Fine" I said, I have a DW300 pump just sitting here that I've had for months. Go down to the car today (since it's stuck at work) to put the new pump in, SURPRISE, those absolutely lovely fittings on the soft hose from the tank to the body line decided they didn't want to come undone and preferred to be round rather than hexagonal. Bit the bullet and have ordered some hardline to -6 AN adapter fittings, as well as matching 200 series hose and hose ends from Aeroflow, will just cut that bloody soft hose off and be done with it. 

Been playing with wires tonight, pretty much finished the Evo 8 ECU adapter harness, just need to wire in an OBD-II plug and reflash connector and add a flying lead to what is normally the rear O2 sensor wire to connect the wideband to and then it'll be ready to go into the car!

Goal for this week is to get the fuel pump, FPR, wideband and Evo 8 ECU in the car and have it running and driving so I can start doing some tuning this weekend, I'm very excited. omw to put 25psi through a stock 4G63T and lift heads 

That’s why I got an auto for mine. They handle big power much better than a manual!

If I was building a straight line/mexican racing league car then yeah I'd go auto all day, but for what I'm doing I prefer the manual haha

True, I went for the MPR as I need a lot more flow capacity for mine.

Yeah I don't think I'll ever outflow the DW300 I have sitting here waiting to go in haha, always going to be limited by the box as I don't want to be stripping teeth off of 3rd or 4th gear, Evo 3 gearbox internals are getting harder and harder to come by (you can't even get Evo 3 5th gear assemblies anymore new from Mitsubishi, they're NLA and the last known new stock sold out early last year, so who knows what's gonna be available 6, 12, 18mo down the line)