snwbrderphat540

So as you all know, I have been building a turbo S30. Did quite a lot of work on it. Well, I have been trying to start it lately to no avail, been having issues with no spark and no injector pulse for some reason, initially it was firing but was severely out of time, I re-did the timing chain and oil pump to be sure, that was when I lost spark and fuel. Checked all wiring, it seemed fine, so I was leading to believe the ECU or CAS went caput! well, just yesterday when the battery was charging, for some reason a massive short happened after re-installing the dashboard.... here is what is left

*note, the ceiling in the garage is supposed to be pure white




















windshield melted away, dash melted away, almost all the wiring harness (body only engine compartment was fine) is melted away, passenger quarter shattered, drivers side window melted, lots of ruined paint.

at this point, I don't know what to even do.... at a loss for words and kind of at a loss for work, it sucks to see so many personal hours go up in a blaze...

tonsoffun300zx

sorry to hear about your loss if your ever in the neighborhood i wouldn't mind donating my 73 to you she's been siting for a while and would need work but it's free and just needed carb work when she was running think about it and pm me if interested snw. sencerly T.O.F.

SportBikeMike

Oh man dude, that sucks! Poor Z.....

SHADY280

dude, that sucks big time. cant imagine what was going thru your head. was the battery connected? the only way to stop the fire at first would have been disconect the battery to remove voltage then control the fire part. i know where to get good quarter windows here where i am at cheapish prices.

snwbrderphat540

luckily I think I have spare quarter windows and a spare drivers side window... its that harness that IDK what I'm going to do with....

thanks TOF. if you want it gone I may be able to work something out. I'll let you know. any wiring issues? lol, and pics would be cool, PM me any pics you have

and as for what was going through my head was interesting, I was actually showering, and the battery has a quick disconnect at the terminal, its a twist ****. guess it wasn't in the OFF position, I was showering and heard a faint beeping, though it was the TV. walk out of the shower and I'm like man, something smells like electrical fire, I dry quickly, through close on and open my bedroom door to my house filled with thick smoke, I thought an outlet caught and the house was burniing down, I run out to the garage to find my dad standing of the car with a hose. he was in the kitchen looking up how to test the CAS to see if it's bad while the battery was charging. I actually hadn't touched the car in a week thanks to getting severely sick. I'm having a blast of a week. but the general thought in my head was " OH SHIIIT OH SHIIIT OH SHIIIT WTF IS HAPPENING!" lol...

BlueKitsune

Holy ****

evandubya

Sucks doesn't even begin to cover it. That's horrible!!

WildmaN

Major bummer man, that really freaking sucks. I am at a loss for words.

icice9

wow im speechless... so sorry for your loss man... good thing no one got hurt... hope this doesnt mean the end of you and Z cars...

SHADY280

put an s130 harness in it. im sure that would be more work, but its an update to match the motor.

snwbrderphat540

yeah, we shall see. I have options, at the moment clean up is first.

theramz

that is a real bad experience but count your blessings, could have been asleep and lost your home or we might have lost you.

260zturbo

sorry what happen, hope things start to get better

skittle

Just MS it with their harness, as far as the body harness and the dash harness there is a person selling a few on zcar i believe.

I would love to get ahold of a 240z shell.

kuro

JSM

U.P! Wow, I didn't realize it was that bad! What else do you need?

snwbrderphat540

Yup it's no fun. Not entirely sue if i need anything else. if so I'll definitely let you know.

hoov100

Snw, if this isn't a sign for you, buy/make a new wiring harness. The wiring even when new sucked donky ***** and was/is a fire waiting to happen.

snwbrderphat540

eh... it's just a body harness. lol. We will see. I just don't have the patience of time right now to do a painless or similar. but if another issue pops up that may be the route. we will see.

JSM

Were driving up now instead of flying. Let me know and I'll strap it to the car...somewhere!

greentrees

This could be the beginning of a new saga. "...and then, out of the ashes rose...'The Phoenix Z". Friggin epic!lol

But Seriuosly, best of luck mate!

snwbrderphat540

update! car was re wired, I have more details in the other thread

85300zx

Im sorry that happened. But keep your z hobby going.

z_lis

Are you going to fix this one back up? That is so sad

snwbrderphat540

yeah, did you see my other thread that coincided with my last post that said "UPDATE" I got it mostly straightened back out and running. but now I pulled it half back apart because I need to check and make sure my wastegate spring is the right one, replace the BOV spring and rebuild the turbo.