Raffle prizes were given away from many sponsors. Spec Clutches, Phase 2 Motortrend, Custom Steel, 240SXTechDVDs.org, and sparkplugs.com were just a few of the many sponsors that donated to the raffle. Finally, thanks were given to everyone who attended and just like that, the convention was over. Although none of us wanted the weekend to end, we all had to face reality. You can’t have that much fun forever. It’s not healthy. We all said farewell and hit the road. It was a great weekend that will be remembered for years to come. NICO would like to give a huge thanks to our co-sponsors, GSpec and Calumsult, the many other sponsors for the event, SR20forum.com, SR20-forum.com, Joe Schintzius for all his work into making this convention happen, Kerri & Traci for showing us a great time in Savannah, Rush for making us laugh the entire weekend, Cambria Suites for putting up with 100 rowdy car geeks, Roebling Road Raceway, and most importantly, all the attendees who made this possible. Thanks a ton! Next year, don’t forget to join us as NICO heads up the convention for the 11th year. We’ll be bringing the event to Road America next year and renaming it the North American Nissan Infiniti Convention, so make sure you mark down Memorial Day Weekend on your calendar for 2010!! See you next year! [post_title] => NICOfest 2009 SR20 National Convention - Savannah, GA [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => nicofest-2009-sr20-national-convention-savannah-ga-1 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2015-05-19 22:15:16 [post_modified_gmt] => 2015-05-20 05:15:16 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [1] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1692 [post_author] => 39 [post_date] => 2009-12-10 19:38:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2009-12-11 02:38:11 [post_content] =>
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Article by Torry Skurski Photography by Mark Schoenholz
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Some of the best mechanics, enthusiasts, and gear-heads in the country come together every year for the SR20 National Convention. There is more knowledge of FWD SR20’s at this convention than the rest of the country combined for the few days while it lasts.
Moving from city to city every year, this year the convention called its home in Cleveland. This is actually only the 2nd city in the convention’s history (since 1998) to see a city more than once. Los Angeles held the convention in 1998, 1999, and 2004, and Cleveland held the 2012 and 2014 conventions.
Holding two of the SR20 conventions in the same city says something about the city, and its planners. Obviously Los Angeles was a good place to hold it more than once, being arguably one of the best car scenes in the county. But Cleveland? Well that comes down to the organizers, Rob Ocasio and Louie Lucena. It takes a lot to put on one of these conventions, and these two were willing to do it twice, with only a year break in between. Some people call that insanity.
Another reason Cleveland was chosen for a 2nd time was its proximity to Nelson Ledges Road Course. Every year, one of the highlights of the convention has been the track day at a road course. In 2012, the unique pricing structure to rent the track at Nelson Ledges made it a hands down winner for the road course venue. Scheduled once again 2014, things were on track to look like another great convention.
However, weeks before the convention this year, some unfortunate news began circulating the Internet. Nelson Ledges had closed, permanently. This put a huge damper on the itinerary for the convention. With only a few weeks to go before the convention began, Rob and Louie worked diligently to look for an alternate location. Another road course within driving distance seemed out of the question, but they came up with a great alternative—Go Karts. Knowing that the attendees of the SR20 convention wouldn’t settle for the typical slow moving karts you rent next to mini-golf, they found a high speed alternative. They were able to secure the Pittsburgh International Race Complex karting track as the venue of choice.
So with the convention still on, despite having no road course track day, I headed out on Tuesday, June 17th for the convention. I stopped at Rush Mathew’s house near Chicago for the night, as we would both be attending the convention. On Wednesday, we rolled out around 10am. We stopped in northwest Indiana to meet a friend for lunch (and enjoy our first beer of the trip), then continued east to Cleveland. Getting there Wednesday night, we quickly found ourselves hanging out with a group of guys that flew in from Los Angeles for the convention. They had beer already being chilled, and brought a 3 liter bottle of tequila from Mexico, so needless to say, we all became instant friends. Of course, Rush and I picked up another 6 cases of Yuengling to get the party started as well.
Wednesday night, in typical SR20 Convention fashion, was the meet and greet. We had a conference room reserved, and Rob ran through the itinerary with everyone, handed out name badges, t-shirts, and then we passed around the 3 liter bottle of tequila to celebrate the beginning of an amazing time.
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[post_title] => 2014 SR20 National Convention [post_excerpt] => A recap of the 2014 National SR20 Convention in Cleveland, OH. For those of you that didn't make it, take a look at what you missed! [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => 2014-sr20-national-convention-1 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2014-06-30 21:49:01 [post_modified_gmt] => 2014-07-01 04:49:01 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.nicoclub.com/?p=20857 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 21472 [post_author] => 11 [post_date] => 2014-03-29 18:36:04 [post_date_gmt] => 2014-03-30 01:36:04 [post_content] =>READ MORE - Page: 1 | 2 | 3 | Photo Album
Thursday was the day that had previously been scheduled for the track day. Typically, this means getting up early and driving over an hour somewhere to be ready to go at 8 or 9 am. However, with the go karting this year, the day didn’t begin until 11:30. This meant we got to sleep in a little! Go karting was a blast. As I rolled out in the very first session, it was a dry track, but a couple of laps in, and the clouds came and unleashed aquatic fury on us. Five minutes into it, we found ourselves creating rooster tails the equal to the ones seen on hydroplanes, and wakes on the track as if a cruise ship just went through. After 10 minutes of karting, I got out, completely saturated. I would have been slightly dryer if I had just jumped into a swimming pool with my clothes on.
After everyone had gotten at least one or two practice runs in, our best times were divided into 3 groups of 15. The fastest, slowest, and those in the middle. We were told we would have a final run where the top 5 of each group would then move on into the main event. I went out in the first group, having managed to pull off one of the top 15 times all day. However, I was quickly passed by everyone. I think I had a slow kart. But nevertheless, it was fun battling it out against other SR20 enthusiasts and a little bit higher rate of speed since the rain had dissipated. After the 3 run groups had gone, the final top 15 ran to crown the winner of the day.
For years, one of the things that has made the SR20 convention fun, is a “free day.” It used to be that the convention was a 2 day event, but there was so much packed into the weekend that you really couldn’t spend time enjoying it with your friends. When the introduction of the “free day” came, it was enjoyed by everyone. It gives you an opportunity to not be rushed, and to take in the sites and do some actual vacationing in the city. Especially since it is usually in a city you are not familiar with.
This year, Friday was our free day, which meant of course that we were up late partying in the parking lot. Rob and Louie had worked with hotel management beforehand so that we had a section of the parking lot partitioned just for the convention. We were able to hang out until 3 or 4 am without having to worry about getting in trouble from hotel management, or worse—the law. Also, because we were on hotel property and not in a public parking lot, we were able to enjoy ourselves with some adult beverages.
On Friday, many first timers took in the sites of downtown Cleveland, while others went to the dyno. This being the 2nd convention that Rush and I had been to in Cleveland, we took a much more relaxed day. We headed downtown to the West Side Market for a little while. The West Side Market is somewhere I had been before but Rush had not. It is a huge market, the size of a city block. All the amazing smells of the great fresh foods is overwhelming. We then took a stroll down the street to check out some of the local bars. After spending a couple hours downtown, we headed back to the hotel to continue partying with the other convention goers. On Friday night we found ourselves once again in the hotel parking lot with some adult beverages. There were several flavors of moonshine being passed around (that magically appeared from nowhere), and the New York attendees even mixed up a gigantic pitchers of margaritas—enough to fuel the entire convention for the evening.
As the convention has grown from a 2 day to 3 day convention with the addition of a free day, this year marked the first year of a 4 day convention. That 4th day would be a drag racing day. This year, that was Saturday. Many of the hard core drag racers awoke early and headed to the track to begin the day as early as 10am. Rush and I were a little less interested in the track day, so we chose to sleep in, have lunch, and then head to the track.
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When we arrived at Thompson Raceway Park, we had learned that there had been a friendly battle going on between some of the guys. However, Rob came out on top, having run a 10.91 in the ¼ with a full interior B13 Sentra. We were somewhat disappointed that we had missed seeing Rob’s run, because he seemed to be done for the day. However, later in the day, Rob decided to hit the track one more time, and managed to pull off a [email protected] time down the track. Full interior! This coming from front wheel drive, B13 Sentra. Simply amazing.
The track closed and 4 that day, so as soon as the cars were done running, Rush and I headed back to the hotel and headed out to dinner. One of the places that both Rush and I make a mandatory stop at while in Cleveland is Melt Bar and Grilled. If you’ve never heard of Melt, it is a local restaurant in Cleveland with 5 locations. One of which, happened to be located across the street from our hotel. This is a famous restaurant that has even been featured on TV shows such as Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives as well as Adam Richman’s Man vs. Food. Take a look at our sandwiches below and you’ll see why it’s a mandatory stop.
For our final night in Cleveland, we once again headed back to the hotel parking lot to party. Another batch of margaritas were made, more moonshine was consumed, more beer was bought, and more fun was had. Although Saturday night had a neat twist of the festivities. Pat “Klutch” Davis asked if he could plug his phone into my car to play some music. I obliged, and am glad I did. What came next was 30 minutes of a rap battle—SR20 themed.
I’ve seen rap battles on YouTube videos, and in movies such as 8 Mile, but I had never witnessed one in person. Usually they involve dissing the other person about how they can’t rap, and other topics such as that, but this battle was a collaboration to dis those that didn’t come to the convention. I only managed to get about 10 minutes of the battle recorded, but it is some pretty amazing freestyle rhyming that is SR20 related. Warning though, it is not work safe as there is some pretty harsh language in it.
Being wowed by the awesome rapping, and our livers asking us for a break, we called it a night. The next day would be our final day at the convention, and we needed energy to drive back to Chicago Sunday night. When we woke up on Sunday, we headed off to the final convention venue of the weekend, the 103rd OVI Civil War Museum. This is the location of the car show, BBQ, and raffle. Everyone that had attended all weekend got to show off their cars and winners were voted on. We divulged into some excellent burgers and hot dogs and watched as the winners of the car show were announced. Then the raffle came, and thanks to some very generous donations, we had some amazing prizes that could be won. Things such as dyno tuning gift certificates, DeWalt impact gun, injector cleaning, and more were greatly appreciated by everyone that won.
We finished the weekend off by doing a group photo with Lake Erie as our backdrop. We did this once before in 2012 in the same location, and it was great to return. Everyone had an amazing time and we couldn’t thank everyone enough that had a hand in putting this convention together. Wherever 2015 will be, we’ll be there! Make sure to check out the rest of the photos from this event below!
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[post_title] => 2014 SR20 National Convention [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => 2014-sr20-national-convention-photos [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2014-06-29 21:05:23 [post_modified_gmt] => 2014-06-30 04:05:23 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://www.nicoclub.com/?p=21484 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) ) [post_count] => 6 [current_post] => -1 [in_the_loop] => [post] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1691 [post_author] => 39 [post_date] => 2009-12-10 19:38:11 [post_date_gmt] => 2009-12-10 19:38:11 [post_content] =>NICOfest at SR20 National Convention
The National SR20 Convention. Wow. That’s all I can say. It’s taken me over a week to recover from it. This was the 10th year the convention has taken place, but the first time NICO was a major sponsor.Let me give you a brief history of this convention before we discuss this year’s activities.
Some of you may have read the forum post that I posted back in October entitled “What is the SR20 Convention?”In it, I gave an in-depth history of the convention and how it took shape into what it is today.So let’s just take a quick look back in time on this event:
The event started out as the SE-R convention back in 1998.For 2 years, the event took place in Los Angeles. However, in 2000, it was decided to make the event a nation-wide event. That year, the event moved to Dallas, TX. Each subsequent year after, the event moved from city to city around the country. Washington, Phoenix, Birmingham, Los Angeles, Austin, New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas, and this year, Savannah. What started out as a local gathering of SE-R lovers, eventually turned into a 3 ½ day event that draws Nissan and Infiniti fans from around the country.
After the 2008 convention in Las Vegas, the future of the convention looked gloom.However, determined not to let the convention die out, NICO, along with other sponsors (GSpec Performance, Calumsult, and many others), brought back the life of the convention by promoting the event across multiple forums, and helping to bring the track day down to a price of only $99.
So there we were, Thursday night, at the beginning of the 10th annual National SR20 Convention.It was apparent that this convention would be one of the largest in the event’s history. By 9pm, we had three times more people at the hotel than were at the entire Las Vegas convention. With over 60 people registered for the track, and over 100 people registered for the weekend’s events, things were looking great. At 10pm, we started by giving an introduction to the event, and some brief rules about driving on the track.For many people, it would be their first time on a real racetrack, and of course, safety is the number one concern.
Friday morning began early; way too early for some of us.As we headed to Roebling Road Raceway, it was a beautiful sight to see dozens of Nissan's in the pits. Broken up into three driving groups, after the driver’s meeting the advanced/instructor class took to the track. After the instructors had learned the course, the intermediates had their crack at it, then finally the beginners. All beginners got to have an instructor ride along with them, so not only were they safer, but also learned some pointers as they went out on the track for their first time.The forecast for the day showed the possibility of rain however we were lucky enough that the first drops came down just before 5pm, so we had all gotten in a nice day of dry track time. The excitement and buzz coming from everyone by the end of the day was great. It was a true testament to us that the convention had been revived.
Friday night, in typical NICO fashion, many of us began the night at the bar. We had convinced the hotel bartender and her friend to show us a good time downtown, and they did just that. If you’ve never been to Savannah, you are missing out on one of the best bar scenes in the country. We were taken to a karaoke bar, and we had a blast there. The peak of hilarity was when forum member rushmatic (Rush) sang “Ice Ice Baby” in his Indian accent. The entire bar was cheering him on, and we thought the DJ was going to collapse from laughter. It was a great time.
Saturday’s itinerary was listed as a “free day.”This was an idea that was adopted a few years ago at the convention so that it would feel more like a vacation. The problem with typical 2-day events is that you are constantly busy. As we’ve learned through the years of doing events, the fun is being with other forum members. In fact, I’m fairly convinced that we would have just as much fun if nobody brought a car with them. Also, the “free day” gives you time to do typical touristy stuff, which is a nice alternative to an already motorsports-packed itinerary. Having nothing pre-planned for the day, the bartender and her friend from the night before invited a handful of us out to a beach house on Tybee Island. Thank you Kerri and Traci!! We played a game of Bocce Ball on the beach then headed inside when the weather started to turn for the worst. After we nearly all died from the tornadoes that were just down the street, we returned to the upstairs of the beach house, and continued to enjoy ourselves.
I know lots of other groups broke off and did their own thing also.I’m sure some people went on tours, went to the beach, or visited the beautiful parks in downtown Savannah. But just as a word of advice for those who attend future events: If you want to have the most fun, follow NICO staff members.
Not wanting to miss out on hanging out with the rest of the convention goers, we headed back to the hotel Saturday night. Because we had nearly 75% of the hotel reserved for the convention, at any point in time there were a number of other conventioneers that were in the lobby of the hotel. Saturday night festivities continued there, until they eventually moved up to the rooms.
The last day of the convention came too early. As Sunday began, we all made our way to Fort McAllister State Park. The weather managed to hold out to create a beautiful day. Lots of cars shined for the show.After everyone spent a couple hours checking out each other’s rides, we headed inside for lunch, awards, and raffle prizes. The catered food was delicious—true southern cooking. We started by giving awards to the nicest cars at the event. Unlike most events, this car show was judged by other participants, not but a panel of judges. We tallied the results and handed out the awards.Best Classic SE-R: Doug OliverBest NX: Joe SchintziusBest B14: Thomas ReynoldsBest B15: Rick LeBleuBest G20: Kevin RatliffBest S-Class: Cory WatsonBest of Show: Russell McMullanFarthest Drive: Rush “Baby Ice Ice” Matthew (from Palatine, IL)
Raffle prizes were given away from many sponsors. Spec Clutches, Phase 2 Motortrend, Custom Steel, 240SXTechDVDs.org, and sparkplugs.com were just a few of the many sponsors that donated to the raffle. Finally, thanks were given to everyone who attended and just like that, the convention was over. Although none of us wanted the weekend to end, we all had to face reality. You can’t have that much fun forever. It’s not healthy. We all said farewell and hit the road. It was a great weekend that will be remembered for years to come. NICO would like to give a huge thanks to our co-sponsors, GSpec and Calumsult, the many other sponsors for the event, SR20forum.com, SR20-forum.com, Joe Schintzius for all his work into making this convention happen, Kerri & Traci for showing us a great time in Savannah, Rush for making us laugh the entire weekend, Cambria Suites for putting up with 100 rowdy car geeks, Roebling Road Raceway, and most importantly, all the attendees who made this possible. Thanks a ton! Next year, don’t forget to join us as NICO heads up the convention for the 11th year. We’ll be bringing the event to Road America next year and renaming it the North American Nissan Infiniti Convention, so make sure you mark down Memorial Day Weekend on your calendar for 2010!! See you next year! [post_title] => NICOfest 2009 SR20 National Convention - Savannah, GA [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => open [ping_status] => open [post_password] => [post_name] => nicofest-2009-sr20-national-convention-savannah-ga-1 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2015-05-19 22:15:16 [post_modified_gmt] => 2015-05-20 05:15:16 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => post [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [comment_count] => 0 [current_comment] => -1 [found_posts] => 6 [max_num_pages] => 0 [max_num_comment_pages] => 0 [is_single] => [is_preview] => [is_page] => [is_archive] => [is_date] => [is_year] => [is_month] => [is_day] => [is_time] => [is_author] => [is_category] => [is_tag] => [is_tax] => [is_search] => [is_feed] => [is_comment_feed] => [is_trackback] => [is_home] => 1 [is_privacy_policy] => [is_404] => [is_embed] => [is_paged] => [is_admin] => [is_attachment] => [is_singular] => [is_robots] => [is_favicon] => [is_posts_page] => [is_post_type_archive] => [query_vars_hash:WP_Query:private] => 2b18f90c2e16f5fd1a13bcf54efe8f59 [query_vars_changed:WP_Query:private] => 1 [thumbnails_cached] => [stopwords:WP_Query:private] => [compat_fields:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => query_vars_hash [1] => query_vars_changed ) [compat_methods:WP_Query:private] => Array ( [0] => init_query_flags [1] => parse_tax_query ) ) "
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A recap of the 2014 National SR20 Convention in Cleveland, OH. For those of you that didn’t make it, take a look at what you missed!
The Manifold I am installing is a Top Speed tubular stainless steel bottom mount T25 turbo manifold for the SR20DET, at the same time I am also installing a Top speed stainless steel turbo extension. 
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A detailed look at the cam bolts and cam brackets. You're going to remove the "outside" cam bolts but you still want to loosen the "inside" bolts as well. Keep the bolts in order as you take them out.
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The "driver" side is very similar with the exception of this oil baffle. After a search on NICOClub, I found that some owners remove the baffle. Others cut it down for fear of blow-by. Since I have the time and tools, I am going to cut mine.
Here are the S13 power plugs that lead to the KA ECU, these need to be spliced into the S14 power wires.
Behind the glove box you can see the interior plug for the DOHC S13 motor (it's the brown plug) and this will be spliced into the S14 interior harness wires. On SOHC cars this plug will be white. Ignore the ****ty stereo wires as they were there before I bought the car lol.
More parts removed from the car.
Once everything is disconnected from the car you can loosen the motor/tranny mounts and pull it from the car.
Now we are ready to put the SR in. At this point remove the S13 KA temp sender from the the KA motor, it is a single pin sender located on the coolant inlet of the intake manifold. Then take the temp sender from the S14 SR out, which is located under the throttle body. Replace it with the KA temp sender. This will make your temp gauge on the dash function correctly.
Here you can see I removed the stock clutch fan because I have no use for it since I already have a set of Altima electric fans.
All done and bolted in!
Here are the stock SR heater hose lines. As you can see in the pic these can be cut and routed right to the stock USDM S13 heater core connections. I chose to use the hoses that came with my swap since they were in great condition. However there are a set of hoses you can get that are preven and fit the S14 SR heater location perfect. I will posts those numbers later.
Here you can see the stock S13 throttle cable lock nuts are too small for the S14 bracket which is why the S14 grommets must be used.
These are the stock S14 throttle cable grommets, the one on the left needs to have a slit cut into it like the one on the right to work with the DOHC S13 throttle cable. On the SOHC cars I am not sure if this will work since I dont have a SOHC and the cable is a different length (IE: you may need to get a DOHC KA throttle cable).
This is the grommet after it has been modified to slip over the throttle cable.
Throttle cable installed and routed. Also you can see the DOHC KA brake booster vacuum line, all you need to do is trim it to length to fit the SR motor.
My new Koyo S13 SR20 radiator, an SR20 rad is needed cuz of the different inlet location on the SR vs. KA, otherwise you will need to make a crossover tube. Beware tho, SR's like to run hot especially when they are running on a stock KA rad. You should really run a better radiator for this swap.
At this point you can hook up the power steering lines, on the DOHC S13 the high pressure line will fit perfect, however the return line will need to be trimmed to length to fit the SR pump location. From what I have been told on the SOHC cars you can simply buy the DOHC high pressure line and swap it over.
Here is where it gets a bit interesting, the S13 and S14 SR motor's have different plumbing/routing for the charge pipes. The BOV's are on different sides and the stock SMIC's sit in different spots too. So you can use the S14 SR charge pipes but you will have to drill holes and make your own mounts to make it all fit and work. In my case I already had an S13 Greddy FMIC kit, so I ended up using a combination of the stock S14 hot pipes and the Greddy piping as well. Then I bought an after market S14 piping kit to complete the piping for my motor. Some people say buy the S14 Greddy kit and you're good but again not all of the piping fits right either. So you're pretty much gonna need to custom cut/make all the charge pipes.
I had to reposition my battery to drill a 3 inch hole for the intercooler piping to pass thru.
Now for the really fun part... the wiring.
Ok since I didn't want to kill a good KA wiring harness I opted to get a spare wiring harness. You are basically going to fully destroy your KA harness and rape it for connectors/shielded wires. If you're ok with this then use your harness, otherwise get a spare one. The good part is the power plugs are the same on the KA DOHC and SOHC harnesses, the bad part is the interior plug is different on them. So you really need to a harness that fits your chassis.
The lower engine harness for the KA will plug right into the S14 SR motor, all you need to do is drill to enlarge the hole on the KA Alternator power wire ring terminal to fit the size of the stud on the S14 SR Alt. The S14 SR tranny plug ends will need to changed over to the S13 plug ends or vice versa, I decided to just change the plug ends on the tranny sensors so that I could reuse the lower harness on my S13 KA tranny later. Some people say you can simply take the sensors from the S13 tranny and use them on the S14 tranny... I have not verified this but it does appear that they can swapped. The Speed Sensor from the S13 Tranny must be used since the S14 will not read the right speed.
At this point we have to wire the main harness... it's not as hard as it seems but it was a PITA for me to do since I ripped my harness apart using other wiring info on the net which turned out to be WRONG! So I had to repair my harness first, then deloom it entirely and wire it up my way.
Where you should start is by delooming and rerouting the harness connections on the motor to fit the LHD configuration of the USDM S13 chassis. Route it however you want... but you must do this first. This is so you know what wires need to be extended to meet their respective connections. In my case I extended the MAF, Boost Solenoid, Power Steering Switch and I also added the stock Boost Pressuse Sensor connection to come out by the TPS plug. I also changed the S14 SR power steering switch plug over to the the KA plug to fit my KA power steering switch.
On a side note the stock boost pressure sensor is plugged into the S14 SR's fuse box, make sure you get this sensor and plug end when you buy your motorset. I am not sure if this is needed to make the car run right, but from what I read in the S14 SR F.S.M. it seemed to be an important part so I added it to my harness. The boost pressure sensor is easy to wire, all you have to do is tap the power and ground from the TPS to the power and ground from the pressure sensor they are the same colors. This is the way it was from nissan as well, just the location of the sensor is different. Then with the remaining signal wire extend and run a sheilded signal wire back thru the wiring harness to the white wire on the S14 SR interior plug, this leads to Pin 35 on the ECU. Make sure that you use a shielded wire for all the signal wires, you can get shielded wires off of your old KA harness.
Here is the S14 wiring harness unmodified.
Here is the harness after I de-loomed part of it, the blue plug with the larger gauge blue wire is the ignition coil relay, the other is the ecu relay. Finally the white plug is the S14 SR interior plug, this is where most of your connections will be made.
USDM S13 DOHC and SOHC power plugs. The main power wires are the same color on both DOHC and SOHC harnesses, however not all of the wire colors are the same color, but regardless of color of the wire the position of each wire does the same in both cars. You want to deloom this harness and keep as much of this wiring as possible by cutting the wires at the ecu plug. These wires will be reused to power the S14 SR harness, you will route the power wires the same way as they were stock in the stock S13.
USDM S13 DOHC brown interior plug, again the SOHC plug will be white. This is what you make the S14 Sr harness look like so that it will plug into the S13 Chassis.
All of the wiper motor/amp wires can be removed from the S14SR harness as they are not used, at all on the S13 Chassis. Also I did not wire up the A/C because I don't run A/C in my car, however it should be super easy to connect the correct wires using the wiring diagram from both F.S.M's.
Now we come to the actual wiring of the harness. I made this in the easiest format I could, hopefully everyone understands it. Additionally I made the same wiring diagram in microsoft word for download and I also included the microsoft excel pinouts that I used to help wire my car. The links for these files are below.
My Wiring info, Download here --->
S14 SR20DET Main Power and Ground Diagram:
S14 SR20DET ECU and Coil pack relay Diagram:
USDM S13 KA Gray Plug at the front right side of engine bay to the S14 SR20DET Harness wires.
Back of plug pinout.
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USDM S13 KA Brown Plug at the front right side of engine bay to the S14 SR20DET Harness wires.
Back of plug pinout.
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USDM S13 Interior Plug behind the glove box on DOHC S13 Chassis to Interior plug wires on S14 SR20DET Harness wires.
Back of plug pinout.
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S14 SR20DET Interior Plug.
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When you get to the S14 SR wiring harness firewall boot, you will need to pull all the tape off of it and then you can slide the boot out of the way. Once you get the boot moved you will see a bunch of black goop all over the wires, you will need to individually pull the wires out of this black stuff so you can move the boot to where you need it to be on your harness. Now you can loosely tape up the harness so it fits everything right, then connect everything to the car and motor. The reason I say to loosely tape it is so if something is wired wrong it will not be hard to go back untape it and make the corrections.
Now once you have plugged everything back in to where it goes, ***MAKE SURE YOU HOOK UP ALL THE GROUNDS***, finish all the charge piping, vacuum lines and fill with fluids. If you wired it right, the ECU & IGN coil relay's will click when you turn the key to the 'ON' position, as well as you should hear the fuel pump priming the fuel lines. If it all works you can try to start it. My motor is wired this way and fired up on the first try. Hopefully your's will too! Once you get it running good and there are no check engine lights then you should be able to tape/loom everything back up and finalize all the installation.
Questions or comments about this article? Here's a discussion thread you'll want to check out: 