It sat in the garage for a while before Wayne Ohn from Phase 2 Motortrend and James Chang from G-Dimension diagnosed the problem as a burned-out airflow meter. At first, I was just going to pull the motor and send the chassis back to P.J. to paint yet again. But this time I painted it inside out and top to bottom in a House of Kolor Platinum Pearl Silver hue and got a Carbon Creations hood, an ings front bumper, and Bride seats inside from Tee's USA. As for the motor, the whole ordeal got snowballed from a simple cam swap into a full build with the assistance of Signal Auto, Race Engineering, Pauter, and Toda Racing. You can read more about that in "Bottom To Top We Stop" (Superstreet, Dec. '03) and "Droppin The 411" (Superstreet, Aug. '04).
To say the least, this car was a whore when we put it back together, but intentionally. We knew that every company made quality parts, but that didn't mean that they were the exact things we needed, so we mixed and matched. From Blitz, we used the SBC i-D boost controller because we liked the speed map function and the quick response of the solenoids. The A'PEXi Power FC was a must, because it allowed us to do initial settings and minor tunes with the commander, which also doubled to read engine sensors. The HKS GT2835 turbo is notorious for spooling up quick and providing a mean knockout punch. If you must call it something, refer to it as organized disorganization.
Not surprisingly, the car didn't run as smoothly as we thought it would when we put it back together because we changed everything at one time without retuning. It also turned out that there was a lot of damage done to the harness from all the times we messed with it. We got a new one from Superior Nissan of Puente Hills and let G-Dimension do their magic. James rewired everything from scratch to make sure we didn't have any problems in the future. After we got it back from G-Dimension, it ran perfectly, even through the break-in period. The motor idled smoothly and revved up fast. All the issues we had in the past were never heard or seen of again. We even managed to take the car out to the one Tuner Bash After Dark show that we threw, up in Seattle.