Okay, that's a cool project! An S13 is one of my favorite cars. One passed me last week with fresh import plates, the driver looked like he was having fun. It's great that they have the swap parts available, that saves a lot of time construction/engineering. Also good to see some car hobby positivity on here. Good luck with the harness and the swap, i hope you'll post more in the future!

You'd like to think so, but CANbus is really only controller to controller, with some sensors on the bus but most still running voltage or current sensing. The shit part of canbus is if you replace an addressed part, controller or sensor, you need the dealer laptop to set the new address in the relevant controller.

I was wondering that when I was posting this. New cars will have more electronics but I thought they might take better advantage of CANbus and more powerful central control units.

The use of CANbus means there is less wiring in newer cars (yet even more reliance on electronics, of course).

That sounds like a nightmare

Akira!

It's going into a S13 240SX. Thankfully the rest of the parts are available specifically for the swap, but I'm not spending thousands on a swap specific harness so I'm going to strip these ones down.

That's a lot of spaghetti. What kind of car are you swapping the drivetrain in?

That’s just the box the new steering rack came in.

You put it in a clean box like a stray animal you just extracted from the car

Ya, right front wheel was toed in 30 degrees. Could not turn right bringing the car into the shop. Had to turn using the loud pedal.

Well, I mean, maybe you didn't notice it when you did the alignment, amirite?

I'm being sarcastic, just to be obvious.

I mean you gotta admit that would make the steering feel off

They hit something. It was towed in 200 km after the alignment was done, and tried to blame it on the alignment.

how

Exactly. Looks terrible, screen distorted. Touch screen doesn’t work well. And the screen is glass, not like you can easily scratch it. And just saving it for the next owner.

I will never understand people like this - why use something for 2-10 years, have it end up looked ragged as fuck within 6 months, just to improve it's 'resale value' when you upgrade?

Why not just fucking enjoy using the thing you own?

Saving on weight.

Meh, needing to use brakes is a result of poor planning.

At least they didn't cross-drill them themselves.

Just flip em lol duh

At least you would keep the outside edge clean for a while.

Ha ha, ya, pads are 12mm on the outside edge, will never wear out, well, until the outer edges touch.

Shouldn't be replacing your own pads and rotors for sure.

Extended pad life