bersh's ca18det s13

[Didderson]

I just said that because those r my cars old tail lights .

But I do like arses when it comes to girls.

VQ30det man 3rd gear grind could just be happening because of your bad slave/hydro system.

[Magnum375 Jr.]

Get a job somewhere first, get a KADE for the time being, swap it in, we could get a bunch of us together and plop it in on a weekend, and sell the ca while you still have it alive. Then save and fix all the stock stuff, enjoy the car for a good looking car and then go for a faster engine. You had your fun, you know you can drive, time to take it easy. If that engine is really dieing, you need to get a plan together. If not sell that thing to me dirt cheap, I revive 240's, not destroy

[bersh240]

UGHHHHH
cyl 1 had this...

an oily, black, gap all screwed up sparkplug.

and the rest wer all charcoaly and had a tinyyy bit of oil on them. not as bad as the first tho.


and then in the piping...

thought mabey turbo is going.

as you can see its all oily. BUT there is ZERO shaft play. its super tight.

i mean i know journal bearing turbos will always shoot a bit of oil around.
but why was it on the plug like that?
I just think the old ca18 is dying a slow death.
rings on cyl 1/headgasket/ turbo seals/ random other gaskets that hold back oil...
time for fresh ca.

Its daily driver days are officially over for now.

[Didderson]

As far as I can tell the piping looks normal for 20 yr old journal bearing seals, specially since your shaft doesn't wiggle (lol).
Headgasket is probably fine. That plug only has oil on the top of it, the electrode and insulation look nice and not coated with oil burnoff or fuel.
SO, just the valve cover gasket is leaking on that spark plug a little bit.
No biggie at all. Get better gapped plugs though, and please, NGK only for ur nissan.

You're worrying too much. Get a nice tune so it runs right then you'll be able to tell when it's sick.

[bersh240]

those are ngk Laser Platinum plugs.. spensive.. getting new ones today tho. aswell as some other tune up bits.
im gona try new valve cover gaskets. still doesnt explain why its runing so crappy.

[RXEvan]

Good luck, call me up if you need anything.

[bersh240]

bad gas+ fouled plugs+ leaking valve cover gasket = crappy running car evidently. who woulda thought..

to fix it i got a z32 fuel filter, new plugs
new valve cover gaskets/ half moon gaskets


apon removing of the valve covers i was shocked at to how perfect the cams are. everything looks to be in tip top shape.


the valve covers wer nasty inside and out tho. lots of oily build up on the inside and the blue paint chipping off the outside.

so i stripped all the old paint off and sprayed and cleared them. it was cold so they came out meh. better than before tho.

and completly degreased and cleaned the insides. put the clean baffle things back in with fresh rtv and they look good as new.


picked up some shiny new hardware that had a normal hex head instead of the dumb phillips oem ones.

incase anyone wants to know i used m6x1 20mm for inside and 35mm for outside.
retaped the coil harness wires. the clips are all broken so im currently looking for new ones.

hopefully the car runs alot better now.
waiting till tomorrow to drive it cause the rtv needs to set.

[Didderson]

Dudemang, it looks awesome! Hope it fixed all yer problems. See, no rebuild for u lol.

[s13sickboi]

Just read your thread. very nice, i like the way you handle problems you run into

This is funny to me and i wanted to mention, all this we have in common.

first off my names chris. im 16 and the 240 is my first car.
i go to cyber school so im on nico all day while i do school work.

...except my name is Christian.

cool little project you got, ca's are cool little motors and you dont see too many of them around. Good luck with your plans!

[bersh240]

haha thats funny.
HIII CHRISTIANNNN

since this got bumped up ill give a lil update.
didderson retimed my car for me. it was CRAZYYYY advanced. it runs soooo amazingly perfectly sweetoo wooowwyy now.
brand new car. soooo much more power. even with the exhaust leak at the turbo.
installing new tie rods 2morrow and mabey the gasket for the turbo if i have time.
it will be back to daily status on friday guaranteed.

new fuel filter also made a big difference. also picking up an sr coilpack harness from MGE sometime soon and gona use it to fix mine.
pics of tie rod install 2morrow!

[bersh240]

okayyyyyyyyy
so ordered new tie rods outers from a nico sponser. and when they arrived they were NOT the brand i ordered. they wer china nasty "OE brand" parts.
i emailed. they sent me QSTEN ones for free.

now which one would you want on YOUR car?

ya the oe brand ones are bad... looks and feels like plastic. the joint flops around... and its a good 2cm shorter than its supposed to be. yuck.
Qsten is the SAME as oem. thery nice a beefy and shiny and stuffs
so i started out with 2 of all this stuff.

new inners, outers, and boots and locktite
old tie rods wer shot...

removed old stuffs
giant wrench is a MUST for the inners to come off. and eat your wheaties.

this is what was left of the old tie rod end on the passenger side.

installed newww

i tossed the lil oem spacer locker thingy and used lock tite on the inner tie rod.
aligned via the didderson method.

and bammm done.

its the smoothest anythings ever went with this car.

[Didderson]

Those outers look real nice.. look like the moogs i bought. Lol @ china's attempt and fail. It actually looks like you'd have more bump steer with those.
Thanks for the plug lol, sorry it was tough to explain over text message, but ya got it!
Still looking forward to hear what your new mpg ratings are after the re-time.
Ecu was probably kicking so much fuel in to compensate for knock creating advanced timing.

[bersh240]

replaced this and found that my other turbo gasket is leaking too.. and i have a stud broken off in my turbo that is preventing the new gasket to seal 100%


also..
i put a blow off valve back on the car.

BRING ON THE HATERS

[nevertheless]

Of course your going to get haters, It looks retarded, but Im sure it wont be too long before someone walks by and yanks it off.

[s13sickboi]

^ Unless someone walks by with a knife or something, it would take quite a bit of effort to break a ziptie like that.

A BOV is better than a STUFFED DOMO

[Didderson]

Bersh you should treat your rare blitz bov better than that :P.
Oldschool jdm bov's are the s***.

Yer funny. IMO towhook toys need to be kept to a minimum size to still look good. I just uninstalled mine.. Growing out of the look? Idunno

[nevertheless]

Back in the day, which was a wednesday btw, I had a transformer on mine, and someone stole it, every since then I just like the look without them. A toy just inidicates oh this kid is tryin too hard.

[shadetree.s13]

Your build is sick, bersh. I just read through the whole thing.
I'm glad to find out there's so many 240s in Lancaster because I rarely see any. Haha.

[crash6541]

keep going man...i've got the CA in my S14 and with a little work it gladly puts out 325hp. love these motors!!