Some pics of the tear down, i found out my 10mm was to fat to get some bolts off so i just stopped there
gotta have something to listen to and drink first:

getting the timing cover off was the first headache:

anything look wrong here:

take a second look

apparently there were 2 bolts that come from inside the oil pan, yes i have a FSM i skipped most of the oil pan stuff thou lol, good thing i dont need that timing cover


more stuff im glad i dont need, CVTC mechanism, the FSM said not to take it apart i pulled on it to get the cam gear off and well u can see what happened:

until i decide to get up and go buy a deep socket 10mm we will just have to deal with these for comparison between 350Z rev-up cams and the normal DE cams, when u look at them its quite obvious the rev ups have quite a bit more lift, and u can see where my 10mm wouldnt fit lol:

another thing that has concerned me alittle is the spark plugs that came out, not only does it look like they were long over due to be changed but im hoping this is just condensation that built up because the motor was sitting for a little while but the tip of every spark plug was wet, it was water not oil:

The mail man brought my HR headstuds:

test fitting the cam spacers doesnt look like i will need to re drill anything

gauges came in aswell, oil press&temp and an AFR just to keep an eye on on it until i can buy an emanage or something of that sort to tune on.