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8-11-2013
Well folks, I am officially ready for my vmount. Button'd up a few things today and I will continue when the new kit arrives.
8-14-2013
One last order of business before the vmount comes. 
As planned my horns came in today, so I tackled my upgrade. Like most, I think the factory horn is beyond weak. So a quick search and the 90's Nissan Quest horn mod was revealed. I ordered a new set from RockAuto Parts Catalog at $18 each. These came with the bracket and the grounding lead for the one terminal. I found this much better than scouring a junk yard for a 15 year old rusty set, that "should" work.
I had a fun time troubleshooting why my horn wasn't working. After a few hours of following the diagram, testing continuity, and scratching my head, I found that the airbag harness carry's the signal wire. During my recent expansion valve replacement, I had to pull the passenger air bag. Since both are now disabled anyways, I left the blue/orange key connector to the harness unplugged when putting everything back together. This put a brake in the signal wire, and caused some troubleshooting.
In the end, they are working as they should and they sound GREAT! A nice stern honk has replaced the tiny beep of the stock horns.
8-17-2013
Vmount
Rotary Extreme's newest Track Vmount arrived a few days ago and everything looked awesome! Ben will likely create a thread on his newest design explaining it in whole, but I suppose I will debut it here. With a new design came a new steel powder coated frame, more angle, ducting, and relocation of the A/C condenser to the bottom. Personally, I love it. It has maximum cooling in mind, with the provision to still run A/C. The steel frame is very solid and a better mounting solution. As always, everything is polished to a brilliant luster.
I unpackaged the kit and took a picture as a whole. I liked that he let me cut my own elbows as it provided the flexibility in length and fitment.
The placement and new ducting fits perfectly. Mouth view..
Finally, it was all installed. Everything lined up great. I gave Ben my hotside pipe measurements and he was spot on! The new frame allows for alot of adjustability and it mounts up very solid.
It's ALIVE
After 2 days of troubleshooting, I got the car fired up. I fixed a few ignition errors on my part in the ECU, and all is good. It starts like a champ every time.
Now on to fixing a few coolant leaks, getting it to idle/drive, and give it a much needed bath!! Tomorrow is a busy day, as I am out of pocket until next Friday. The tune will be rapidly approaching so its "game-on" with getting this thing road worthy, and giving it some dyno abuse! 
I was never so happy when it fired up! 
Today went pretty good.
-I discovered my heater core is leaking at the internal pipe. Looks like I'll be shopping for a new one.... I bypassed it for now, but will tackle that when everything is squared away.
-I had to ditch both of my turbo coolant hard lines. An issue with flaring made two of the four fittings leak, so I went with push locks covered in fire flex hose. I will likely have my hand at the hard lines again, but because of time, these will work fine for now.
-I didn't get a chance to play with the idle or even drive it much. Its running pretty lean and the idle oscilates. No worries, I will have plenty of time next weekend.
-After looking everything over, I'm going to run an intake pipe. There still isn't a lot of room for a filter, but more than before. With long tube manifolds on a vmount, you gotta get creative, and I will do just that. Once the filter is in place, my water injection lines will be finished up, and it will be in full form.
-I FINALLY got to wash it and see it in the sun. Man I couldn't be happier with the paint and body. Overall, I am very psyched!!
