My CA powered 200sx (240sx 180sx) LIVES!!!!!

[ragenasian]

Well I am so excited I had to tell everybody. I don't post here too often but love all the information and love the fact that nobody on this forum feels the need to trash others for questions they ask. So major props to everybody who is a member of this forum!!!!!

After hitting a tree in my last 200sx with a CA at a 100mph I finally have another one running.

I purchased this one for 500 bucks with a blown CA motor. I mean really blown, two holes in the oil pan, and a fist sized chunk taken out of the block.

So after taking my motor out of the old wrecked car, slapping a rebuilt head on it, new head gasket, water pump, belts blah blah blah blah IT RUNS!!!!

Runs like crap in the cold and when it warms up it screams. Pics will come shortly. For 500 bucks the car needs a little work but here is the list of goodies so far

2pc 16x7 16x8 Kakimoto rims painted to match the car, Blitz Access ECU, Apexi intake, 3 inch full exhaust from the turbo back and no catalyitc converter, Full cusco suspension, HKS BOV.

So for anybody who can answer this, can anybody tell me if the SSAC FMIC works with all the A/C stuff in the way?? Will it be to big for a stock turbo?

LOVE THE FORUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My old car is pictured in the post with all the 240s. It is on page 28 sitting next to the OPEL

[themadscientist]

where you at, Germany?

[ragenasian]

Yeah I am in Germany right now working along side the U.S. military. Great place to be considering all the parts that they classify as race only in the States I can put on my car over here without too many hassles. I still dont' understand why it is called a 200sx. All the fellow Americans get my car confused with the stateside 200sx when I talk about it. This also would clarify probably how I hit a tree at 100mph and still have a license to drive the new project.

I added a pic of the car (remember 500 bucks so don't hate too much on it, also came with an extra turbo and the rims you see on it with brand new tires, so not all that bad of a deal)

[pulsar gtr]

Congrats on your new ride and good to see another fellow Ca have their car back on the road.

looking at the pic you added, I think you got a great deal for 500 bucks.RafiPULSAR GTR

[capwred]

i want a rear bumper like yours. no a bad deaal at all for the car.

[ragenasian]

I might be able to source the bumper for you, I work at the post office and will have to see if I can send it through USPS. I believe it shouldn't be a problem though. If you are interested let me know and I will see what I can do. Nobody wants these cars anymore because the gas prices here are around 4 bucks a gallon for regular. You also pay tax by how much horsepower your car is running here so a little bit of tuning and your car is sucking gas and burning up your tax money so it is great for me.

I am also not complaining about the car too much. It has had a couple of accidents that we found out about but the car drives true and just needs paint touch up because the paint they used was a slightly darker shade but not really noticeable. I am just glad the beast is running but running a straight through 3" exhaust with no cat or resonator is almost unbearable so I will probably have to get something else and I can't wait for my screamer pipe

I will post more pics when the new rims are on it with the cusco susp on it. Will definately be a summer car (considering it takes forever to start in the cold) but my 1991 Nissan Primera GT will get me through the winter

[rico05]

Well, Nissan has always had a thing for naming casrs by displacement abroad.

Take the S30 240Z. Sold in Japasia as a Fairlady Z, and is to this day. We got it as a 240Z because it had a 2.4l I-6. The 240SX is called such because of its 2.4l I-4. So, since the S13 came with a SR in Europe as a motor option, it was called the 200SX (same for Australia). Now, due to international tax laws, in certian markets (Europe and I beleive some parts of Asia as I understand that many nations in that region follow displacement based taxation laws) the car came simultaneously with a 1.8l (CA18DET...which could be had until either 1995 or 1996 IIRC, in Europe) or the SR20DET. Also, remember that the S13 was introduced in Japan in 1988 as both S13 and RS13 chassis (Silvia and 180SX respectively), therefore the original moniker of "180SX" came from the fact that it was powered by the CA18DET (as was the S13, but I digress...) So, there ya go.

Nice car BTW. Congrats on the swap

[ragenasian]

Well here in Europe I haven't seen one 200sx with a SR motor in it. Every one here in Germany only comes with the CA motor. The SR was only introduced here when the s14 replaced the s13. Here in Germany all 89-94 200sx come with the CA motor. So far I have only seen one SR powered S13 here and that was a swap. Also I have found out through customs that all Japanese made cars here in Europe are considered J-Spec. Also most of the Honda parts I get have the JDM stamp on them, but am not sure if this has any relevance .

Does anybody have the square set of front lenses? Maybe you want to trade for my JDM tear drop shaped ones. I salvaged the front bumper from my wrecked car and it required the square ones. Hate to sell it because it allows way more air into the front of the car. Let me know if anybody has an extra set. Thanks

Thanks for all the kind words even considering you can't see much of the car. I think this color is much nicer then the dark blue 89 I had. Plus this one has A/C. Most cars here in Germany don't have A/C.

[pulsar gtr]

so your ca18det 200sx is left hand drive? hum, very interesting, if so, that means that harness is of a left hand drive car and I don't need to extend the maf wires. sweet.

RafiPULSAR GTR

[ragenasian]

Yeah Pulsar,

My car is left hand drive. Intake sits on the drivers side. Hopefully it will stay above freezing here long enough for me to tighten up some bolts and find out where my small oil leak is coming from. Maybe I can even get the cusco susp on today. We will see.

If anybody is interested I have a CA18DET gauge cluster 60 bucks shipped. I also have an extra intake mani but euro CA's are missing those extra valves you guys are always talking about. Still have some MISC stuff if anybody is looking for anything let me know.

[240Titan]

In Europe, Australia, and New Zealand the 240 was called a 200sx; and the United States and Canada called a 240SX. So people confuse the 200sx as the sentra when talked about in the US...

[ragenasian]

I know all about them mixing the cars up. I was driving some soldiers around the other day and they asked what car I was building. So I told them a 200sx and one of the ladies said that the car was cute!! AHHHHHHHH so I had to correct her. I don't want to drive anything that is cute. My girlfriends 1973 super beetle with an AUDI motor rolling on 16s might be cute but not a 200sx at least not a euro 200sx