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ICdrifting
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Car: 1989 nissan 240 sx Ca18det engine

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so the car will start and run fine for about 5 to ten minutes after that its starts running really bad, it lacks power, almost like if it was runing on 3 cylinders and it smells like gas. i pulled these codes out of the ecu i dont know if they are right:23, 34, 45, 51, 12any help is apreaciated


nnkfws333
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Car: 2004 Infiniti G35 and a 1989 Nissan 240SX

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ICdrifting wrote:so the car will start and run fine for about 5 to ten minutes after that its starts running really bad, it lacks power, almost like if it was runing on 3 cylinders and it smells like gas. i pulled these codes out of the ecu i dont know if they are right:23, 34, 45, 51, 12any help is apreaciated
You didn't search from what I see...http://users.adelphia.net/~rescue70/ecu.html

boost_boy
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Car: B12 sentra w/built CA18DET, B12 sentra w/fully-built CA18DET, S13 coupe w/ CA18DET, S13 hatch w/CA18DET, 2002 maxima SE
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ICdrifting wrote:so the car will start and run fine for about 5 to ten minutes after that its starts running really bad, it lacks power, almost like if it was runing on 3 cylinders and it smells like gas. i pulled these codes out of the ecu i dont know if they are right:23, 34, 45, 51, 12any help is apreaciated
This tells me that your car's wiring is a bootleg. Please go over your wiring because you obviously left a few wires undone which resulted in a few components either malfunction or not reporting to the ecu.

Dee


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