accelerate and my car wanted to die. please help!

[tnong84]

hi everyone.

well i have a problem. i blow my ka24de, so i went and got a new ka24de and i did the swap. after waiting for so long and everything was done. i start it and it wont start because of my battery. so i jump it and it start fine. then later i heard a rattle noise and it was coming under the head cover. so i start taking it out. and notice whoever owned that engine before use different screw for the head cover. so i start taking it out and notice the piece that is under the head cover where the screw goes in was strip. so thats why they was using different screw. but enough of that. where it was strip was where up front near on top of the timing chain. luckily i saved my blown ka24de so i took the timing chain cover and replace it. so every screw on the head cover goes in but except the three on top near the spark plug. its loose because i think its strip also.

i then start the car again after i got that fix, and the rattle was gone. now i have another problem, when the car start it sound like an old muscle car with the loud exhaust. it was coming from the manifold. so i checked it out and i forgot to screw it back on tightly. so i went out and bout me some bolt and screw it on. at the same time when the car start every time i accelerate it die. so what am i doing wrong? the car start but everytime i step on the accelerate it wanted to die on me.

so please help me.

[MaximA32]

Sounds like your timing is off. The timing on the KA24DE should be 15* before TDC, iirc.

[tnong84]

okay i will check the timing chain and replace my spark plug.