Q45 must go to a good home in about a month, 1990, 57k miles

[sensibleS13driver]

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Modified by sensibleS13driver at 8:10 PM 6/8/2007

[gniknave]

Him and I have talked a lot about this car. I highly recommend it!

[Q451990]

Tell me about this new transmssion... are we talking factory rebuild? How about the injectors... new Infiniti installed at dealership or something else?

Sort of scary to see those things happen at such a low mileage. Especially since "Q2" was a low-mileage CA Q, and I have been working under the theory that picking up with excellent transmission maintenence and injector flushs should keep it going for a very long time...

Beautiful car though... has it ever had any body work done?

Heath

[sensibleS13driver]

Transmission is either a used or rebuilt unit from a local shop, not positive yet since the problem came up rather suddenly and we are still working out specifics. The injectors are from the dealership, as is all other maintenance thus far. No body work whatsoever, 2 or so negligible dings over 15 years isn't so bad. I'll be honest his car got mostly city miles (likely the source of transmission failure), but I will stand by its condition as being the best I have seen.

[nuQ]

now for the obvious question.............chain guides???? i'm sure the originals are still in there. looks real nice!!!!!!

[sensibleS13driver]

yes original chain guides :/ naturally i want the car for myself but that doesnt seem to be in the cards, i would remove the guides if it were mine.

[Rex]

yes original chain guides :/ naturally i want the car for myself but that doesnt seem to be in the cards, i would remove the guides if it were mine.

That might work on the KA, but would spell trouble on the VH. Replacing them with the metal backed version is a must .

[elwesso]

Unless when he said remove he meant R/R

[Rex]

Unless when he said remove he meant R/R

Common thing on the KA is to simply remove them.

[maxnix]

Common thing on the KA is to simply remove them.

Tell me you are not serious! Right?

[Rex]

Tell me you are not serious! Right?

Seriously.

Quote »The KA24DE did have an inherent problem with the upper chain guide(between the cams). While it is not prone to failure, it is a cause of timing chain rattle. A Nissan TSB indicates the fix is to just remove it. It is not needed. In fact, my 98 240 did not have one from the factory.[/quote]

I dont think there is a TSB on it. But there is a parts service file on it. when you go to replace the old one a note in their parts computer tells them to reffer to a book to see what other parts are needed to install the updated guide.

[Mark86T]

Common thing on the KA is to simply remove them.

I had a 90 240sx with that KA engine. Had a blown head gasket so I pulled the top end and had it totally redone. Saw that the timing chain guides were plastic & had broken to pieces. The chain then wore a grove in the aluminum timing chain cover badly enough that I purchased a new one along with the new/updated guides with metal backing. I could not imagine just removing the chain guides in the KA as the chain has too much slack. If you get into the engine that far, why not just replace them? MUCH easier job than the VH engine.

[texasoil]

The SF Bay area can be extremely hard onbrakes and transmissions. The steep hills do work things over real hard, depending on the particular driving routes. Try driving straight down 'wildcat hill' --from Berkely directly toward the Bay--straight, dropping very steeply--only a BMW,Prosche,or Brembo equipped car will make it without cooking the brakes.

[sensibleS13driver]

this car was in Orange County (Laguna Niguel) until 2001 when the owner moved to Walnut Creek. Most of the miles were before the move.

The SF Bay area can be extremely hard onbrakes and transmissions. The steep hills do work things over real hard, depending on the particular driving routes. Try driving straight down 'wildcat hill' --from Berkely directly toward the Bay--straight, dropping very steeply--only a BMW,Prosche,or Brembo equipped car will make it without cooking the brakes.

You're thinking of Marin Ave, and no you don't cook your brakes coming down that hill, uninformed exaggeration

[gniknave]

I had a 90 240sx with that KA engine. Had a blown head gasket so I pulled the top end and had it totally redone. Saw that the timing chain guides were plastic & had broken to pieces. The chain then wore a grove in the aluminum timing chain cover badly enough that I purchased a new one along with the new/updated guides with metal backing. I could not imagine just removing the chain guides in the KA as the chain has too much slack. If you get into the engine that far, why not just replace them? MUCH easier job than the VH engine.

It's a little different with the dohc ka engine vs the sohc. On the dohc you can remove them, this is not the case on the sohc. I also replaced them on my sohc when I had it.