good CA write up

[MrAlex]

okay so .. post all you want about the search but i have search for 3 days and yet to see a good write up ..... i have been seen everyone say its the same as a sr but , is there one for a CA18det , what i have is a 1990 240sx that had a single and need help making sure it all wires up , for the most part i have seen that most of the plugs work but im sure some don't at all , so i need a little help , all i need is for some one to show me the way to a good write up maybe , you know the correct key works to look under so help me instead of just posting search ....thank you

[zenki-S13]

its pretty much the same as the sr as far as i know.i got luckey and my harness was already rewired to run into my car

but if you want you can always go off of bits and peices and make your own awesome wright up when your done

[busteds13]

Plenty of people here have done it without someone holding their hand, go to the top, in the stickies there are links, to both the FSM and the wiring writeup, which is done by a shop, IIRC and is pretty step by step, if youre doing this yourself then read everything even if it doesent seem to pertain, otherwise send it to a reputable harness builder and pay them for the time.It would be cool if youre the firs to do an in depth clean steb by step writeup, many CA newbs will be grateful, good luck.oh, heres a quick link to wiring stuff (its in the stikies) zerothread?id=114956I think you should be a bit more confident in your own problem solving skills, there may not me a comprehensive write-up, but the peices are there, and once youactually get in to it and start doing it, it makes sence and is relativley simple to do.

[MrAlex]

trust me when i say im pretty confident in my work , this does happen to be my first nissan i ever work on in depth , and it being 20 degrees out side , i dont want to sit in the cooled and problem solve , that why my question .... but thak you very much , and im thinking if it wasn't snowing and cold as s$# i would make a write up ..

mind you im doing the swap my self with no help and i have work on it for 5 hrs that includes me removing my stock single and having the CA completely in just not wired

so i think Ive done good

[busteds13]

thats pretty good time for a full swaparoo, i personaly did it in that time, and then spent 3 weeks, (some sleeping in my car in friends garage) trying to get it to limp to my house.

I used the wiring how to in the link i posted, it worked just fine, once you get in to it its not as much work as you think, i believe theres an ECU pinout diagram in the stickies too, youll need that to figure out the under dash wiring, and its a good resource to have on hand.

Getting the CA to run can be a PITA but once done you'll love it, the plus side of struggling a bit, is that you'll get know your car like the back of your hand in no time.

I think the reason theres not a copmrehensive write-up, i because the struggle is diffrent from car to car. I looked for one too Before i got my engine, and quicly realised that i had to pool several diffrent sources to do the wiring, and just jump in and solve problems as they arise.( I was hoping they wouldent)

I found that most plugs on the engine plug it to one plug on the harness. no two plugs can be mixed up, and then youll have to deal with the leftovers.

The FSM (Full Service Manual) in the stickies ha a nice engine harness section so you could just use that as a guide ( remember to compensate for the RHD to LHD diffrences.)

GL

theres alotta info out there, finding it is a bit@# though.

id say go for it, and if you find problematic plugs, take pictars of them and post your question, you might get better responce

I know it sounds dicouraging but im afraid that a good write up is stuff of legend.

[sjbsuperman1425]

http://web.archive.org/web/200...oveka

PRESTO! The best SR swap guide known to man (in my opinion). I used this in conjunction with the FSM to wire my engine and it worked 100% the first try. I followed it basically too a "T".

Ryan, Dee, other mods, if someone could put that link in the stickies for future wiring guide questions, i think it might do some good. Plus it'd help me by not having to worry about always having it on my harddrive lol

[MrAlex]

OKAY , and i also forgot to say my car is RHD with a single wiring harness , but it all goes to the same place as the rhd , i hope i had a cabin and bay harness , i had to make my own last time , everthing works inside and out off the car as far as wiring goes

[z210]

do a write on how to use the search button

[sjbsuperman1425]

do a write on how to use the search button

is this really necessary?

[busteds13]

do a write on how to use the search button

we dont do sh1t of this sort ^ in the CA Forum, be civilized or GTFO!

[busteds13]

OKAY , and i also forgot to say my car is RHD with a single wiring harness , but it all goes to the same place as the rhd , i hope i had a cabin and bay harness , i had to make my own last time , everthing works inside and out off the car as far as wiring goes

So why do you need a writeup?or do you mean last time as in a time on like a honda or toyota or something?if your car is RHD and the harness is RHD then you should have it even easier then those swapping over, the FSM is for a RHD s13

[MrAlex]

So here's the load down I bought the shell as a rhd with no harness motor or anything , other then a bill of sale I then bought another car to strip it of all it's parts , and install them on my rhd the only reason I did that in the first place was because I got the other car for 200$ and it only had 90,000 miles , so the harness was out of a usdm ka24e

[float_6969]

http://web.archive.org/web/200...oveka

PRESTO! The best SR swap guide known to man (in my opinion). I used this in conjunction with the FSM to wire my engine and it worked 100% the first try. I followed it basically too a "T".

Ryan, Dee, other mods, if someone could put that link in the stickies for future wiring guide questions, i think it might do some good. Plus it'd help me by not having to worry about always having it on my harddrive lol

This was the one that I used to have linked to, but the link changed, so I had to find a new one. I'll put this one back in there too.