MY project 240sx....almost done....any info??

[all4sr's]

alright....so im a Newbie to Nico club....so if this post should be in a certain area im sorry....like i said, im new....but i need some help

FIRST OFF...its gonna be ALOT of pictures...pics. that ill be asking questions on and pictures just showing in general stuff......i have an IDEA about wut some of this stuff is but not alot......

ive NEVER worked with a CA18det before....ive worked with a couple KA's and SR's but not CA's.....so im sorry if some of these are "dumb" questions....i just want to make sure ill be able to trust this thing driving place's....i want to do it right from the start.....im pretty much building this car to be DONE by mid march because im trying to bring it to HOT IMPORT NIGHTS in D.C. this april, also hopefully around 250-300hp buy then as well....any info would be AWESOME....

once again....im sorry if these are "dumb" questions....but please keep negative comments to yourself or out of my post.....thank you

this is in front of the motor itself....im assuming its for the clutch fan??

this is right below the Intake manifold...is this where the thermostat goes??

My FMIC piping...its gonna have to be altered to work though..

This is the ****ty exhaust manifold that i was talking about in other post's....this is the STOCK turbo manifold right??

I have no idea wut this is...its on the drivers side of the car...im assuming its stock cause it says "nissan" right on it.....??

Wut the hell is this??

AHHHH...the motor....so fresh and so clean clean...

this is one section of the the vacuum lines that i read all the other post's about and i know wut i need to do now....

im taking it that this is were the A/C unit used to be?????

this is the Heater core pipe.....or from wut i read on the other posts, it is....its right underneath the intake manifold..

The driverside of the car.....i the pignose bumper and the Chucki "sharkmouth" bumper....will i be able to use the Chucki??

i dont know wut goes to this little tube....im assuming its a place for the Vacuum line to go to for the butterfly in the Intake Manifold???

in this pic. im refering to the Curved Hose.....i believe its another heator core hose, (again, from wut i read in other posts), and it wraps back to the other side of the car and goes into the firewall right above the other heater core pipe...??

in this pic. im refering to the nipple thing on the Valve cover....its a hose that will go from there to the piping for the turbo when its on....am i correct???

this is one of the fans that is wired up to be electric....is this fine here??and there is another BIG *** fan on the other side thats wired up to be electic..

This is also right next to the Brake booster and i have no idea wut it is for???there's that green box again....

i know a pre-bent hose runs from here to the back of the intake manifold...correct?

this plug is on the Drivers side of the Oil Pan....wut goes to this???

The SR downpipe that i plan on using....

i pretty much know wut this is for as well.....it comes off of the butterfly actuator behing the intake manifold.....

the actuator that i was refering to just now....

just another pic. of the motor.....

i have no idea wut this is....its connected to the engine bay wiring harness.....its on the passenger side....it says "JEC'S" on it...????

the CA18DET E.C.U. came with the car when i bought it......

Everyone says that this is fine capped off???is it for vacuum??

this is that BIG *** fan that i was talking about.....is this okay??

this is just a pic. of the Intake manifold side.....

HAHA....HUGE FMIC....i have no idea how this is going to fit, but dammit ill find a way...lol

this is a cut hose on coming off the back of the Intake Manifold.....wut is this to???fuel filter??

so wut am i supposed to do to this thing again??

the fuel filter....is this supposed to be in some other place??

LIKE I SAID....its ALOT of pics......any info on ANYTHING will be damn helpfull....wether its in the pics or not, or its just something you'd like to add....trust me....its VERY MUCH APPRECIATED...

[all4sr's]

hmmmmm......26 views and noone knows anything???wierd....

[ilovecoupes]

you should change your title to "MY project 240sx....no where near done....I need help"Also you might want to number your pictures so everyone doesn't have to quote them

this is right below the Intake manifold...is this where the thermostat goes??

yes

This is the ****ty exhaust manifold that i was talking about in other post's....this is the STOCK turbo manifold right?

Yes

Wut the hell is this??

Windshield wiper motor

im taking it that this is were the A/C unit used to be?????

Yep AC lines go there

this is the Heater core pipe.....or from wut i read on the other posts, it is....its right underneath the intake manifold..

Yes

i dont know wut goes to this little tube....im assuming its a place for the Vacuum line to go to for the butterfly in the Intake Manifold???

No run this to your BOV

in this pic. im refering to the Curved Hose.....i believe its another heator core hose, (again, from wut i read in other posts), and it wraps back to the other side of the car and goes into the firewall right above the other heater core pipe...??

Its supposed to a coolant line for your turbo, but some one just routed it back into the block

in this pic. im refering to the nipple thing on the Valve cover....its a hose that will go from there to the piping for the turbo when its on....am i correct???

This is part of your PCV system, run this two your intake pipe

This is also right next to the Brake booster and i have no idea wut it is for???there's that green box again....

looks like a vacuum line for your boost gauge

i know a pre-bent hose runs from here to the back of the intake manifold...correct?

This is also part of your PCV system. This line should be ran to a hole about the same size, on the side of your intake manifold

this plug is on the Drivers side of the Oil Pan....wut goes to this???

oil drain bung, for the turbo

the actuator that i was refering to just now....

that controls your butterfly valves

i have no idea wut this is....its connected to the engine bay wiring harness.....its on the passenger side....it says "JEC'S" on it...????

Injector resistor box, it plugs into you engine harness

Everyone says that this is fine capped off???is it for vacuum??

Yes, cap it off

this is a cut hose on coming off the back of the Intake Manifold.....wut is this to???fuel filter??

yes they are both fuel lines

so wut am i supposed to do to this thing again??

run it to your intercooler piping. Its for the IACV

the fuel filter....is this supposed to be in some other place??

its fine in its stock place

[all4sr's]

^^^^thanx man....its not really "nowhere near done" i pretty much only have little things left....i have everything for it and im getting all the vacuum lines this weekend....all of the harnesses are all hooked up....everything is pluged in where it supposed to be......so ill hopefully have it good to go in about a month.....

[ilovecoupes]

ya i consider almost there; simply filling it up with fluids and starting it up.

valve covers are cool. Nice blue

And I could be mistaken but, I think chuki an pignose's use different fenders.

[all4sr's]

yea.....i hope itll start up that easy.....i picked this up as an unfinished project and ive done a couple of things to it so far.....yea..i heard somewhere that you have to use different fenders.....

[all4sr's]

well...113 views and only 1 person has givin me info.......nice.....

[all4sr's]

okay.....so i guess this site isnt as helpfull as i thought....

[ragenasian]

Do you want people to tell you what ilovecoupes already told you?? If you have more questions ask away.

[float_6969]

okay.....so i guess this site isnt as helpfull as i thought....

LOL, try and get better help on another site! You'll prob just get flamed. Luckily, this IS the best Nissan site in the Net, and so I'm going to spoon feed you all of the information you want.

Open wide, here it come;1st pic: Clutch fans are mechanical. They don't require any electrical input. That is for the coolant temperature sensor, the gauge cluster temperature sensor, the idle control valve on the side of the intake manifold, or for the fast idle valve under the throttle body.

2nd pic: Rear Thermostat housing. Remember that the spring goes back into that opening and the little pin/hole in the thermostat goes up. I hope you have the thermostat cover, as they're hard to come by, and there isn't a USDM equivalent. You need a coolant flush, BAD.

3rd pic: Cold pipe. You'll have to have it altered to have it work though.

4th pic: Turbo manifold. Stock. It's actually pretty decent up to 300hp. Much faster spooling than the equal length SSAC ones. You'll spool up at least 500rpm faster with this manifold on a GT28R.

5th pic: It's a stock electrical box. Can't remember it's purpose in life off of the top of my head right now, I think it's got something to do with the windshield wipers. Doesn't have anything to do with getting the car running.

6th pic: Windsheild wiper motor.

7th pic: Picture of a CA18DET in an S13. It's got purty blue valve covers. You need to fix that rust on the frame rail and the throttle cable bracket is all bent to up. I'm revoking your electrical taping privledges as well.

8th pic: Blurry pic of vac lines you don't need. Take them off the motor and throw them away.

9th pic: These are the connections for the A/C.

10th pic: That pipe has multiple coolant connections. You have a factory oil cooler, This motor may have come from Europe. If it didn't, then it was originally and auto and the fast idle valve under the throttle body is going to make the car idle at almost 2K rpm when cold on a manual. You can also see the knock sensor in the back round of this picture above the coolant pipe.

11th pic: That is a picture of your car. The 2 front bumpers aren't interchangeable without changing the fenders as well.

12th pic: We generally reccomend that you use this line for the BOV. The CA doesn't have one factory, so you'll need to buy one and have it installed on your intercooler piping. Most of the kits you see will be for the hotpipe coming right out of the turbo. You'll need to route this line across the engine bay if you want to use one of those. If you use a universal kit, then have the adapter welded onto your cold pipe as close to the throttle body as possible and then route this line right to the BOV.

13th pic: Looks like a heater core hose for a RHD car. You don't need this hose, or the metal pipe. You should have taken it off before you put the motor in, as it's going to be VERY hard to remove now.

14th pic: You need to connect that nipple to a nipple on the SUCTION PIPE of the turbo. That is the one that goes from the MAFS to the inlet of the turbo.

15th pic: This fan comes on when the A/C comes on. Unless you hook up the A/C, I wouldn't worry about it.

16th pic: Clutch master cylnder.

17th pic: This is the other PCV hose. It does go to the PCV valve, which should be screwed into the back of the intake manifold.

18th pic: Nipple for the oil drain for the turbo. You should have a large nipple bolted on to the bottom of the turbo. Connect that nipple to this nipple with an oil safe hose. Usually something with a 90° bend it works fine. NO KINKS OR UNEEDED BENDS IN THIS HOSE!!! If it's kinked, the oil won't drain out of the turbo propery, and will cause all kinds of problems and even turbo failure.

19th pic: SR downpipe. You'll need an SR O2 pipe for this to work, or you'll have to have this pipes triangle flange cut, rotated, and welded back on to work.

20th pic: Make sure it comes off of the butterfly actuator. It's the larger of the 2. If it does, you can just remove it for now. It sounds like you're going to have your hands full getting this to run properly the way it is. Worry about the butterfly valves later.

21st pic: Yes, that's the butterfly actuator. For now, just remove the line and leave it alone.

22nd pic: You need more cardboard.

23rd pic: Resistor pack. It'd for the injectors. Leave it alone, you need it.

24th pic: ECU, the motor needs this to run. Plug it in and then read the FSM to see how to check for codes. If you don't have the FSM downloaded yet, do it NOW or people are going to laugh at you and call you mean names.

25th pic: It's fine capped off. It was for the carcoal canister. It's not needed.

26th pic: That's a big fan. How is it wired up?

27th pic: Intake manifold, bent bracket still. I don't think the idle control valve on the side of the manifold has anything plugged into it. It may be the home for that yellow plug we talked about earlier.

28th pic: Large intercooler. You'll have to get a sawsall or air cutter and notch out the bumper bracket. Don't be a looser and just remove the support. That's re taw ded.

29th pic: Fuel lines. IIRC, the top one connects to the top of the fuel filter and the bottom one connects to the tube near the bottom of the fuel filter.

30th pic: That "T" connects to the cold pipe right infront of the TB. That small hose on the cold pipe should connect to that.

31st pic: The fuel filter just clips into the bracket to the left of the filter in this pic on the strut tower.

You have 1 response and 113 views because you posted 31 pics of questions that could have been answered if you had searched and read the FSM (Factory Service Manual). You're obviously not familar with fuel injection systems. That's fine, nobody is born knowing this stuff, but read the FSM, it's got SSSOOOOO much information in it. I'll even save you the trouble of having to click on the sticky at the top of the forum and find the link yourself; http://www.nicoclub.com/FSM/misc/CA18DE.zip.

NICO isn't all about spoon feeding info to people. We are generally more tolerant of people asking for it than most other forums. You're lucky you're in the CA forum. If you had done this in the SR forum, they would have torn you apart.

Search, read, search, read, search. NICO has been around for long enough, that no question you can think of hasn't already been asked before.

Have a little more appreciation for NICO please. I just spent the last 30min writing this post for you, when you could have found all of this info for yourself.

Welcome to NICO, good luck with your project, no hard feelings, and keep us updated on the project.

-Ryan

[all4sr's]

thank you for the info....

like i said, i bought this as an unfinished project cause the guy i bought it from was going overseas on deployment.....so i dont really know wut he did and didnt do....he was also the one who dropped the motor in.....that and not knowing anything about CA's doesnt help either......so believe me, i appreciate the answers....

so if those heater core pipes are still there and the heater core its self is there.....shouldnt the heat still work though??as for that big *** fan....its ghetto rigged like hell.....the wires that i looked at were wired into the engine harness....no idea if its gonna work or not....and yes, that electrical taping is horrible......so i can just get rid of he vacuum lines COMPLETELY....i dont need them at all???thats not gonna make my car run like **** is it??

[float_6969]

Have you read any of the stickies at all?

[r34 gtr]

You need a vacuum line to the fuel pressure regulator, one to the turbo wastegate, one to your brake booster (big one), and one to your blow off valve. Other than that, you can ditch them.

[all4sr's]

yes...i have read some of the stickies....sorry if i dont have all the time in the world to read every single page of stickies that there is and that i cant remember everything that i read....

r34.....thank you for helping me out......that sticky i read and remembered cause it was exactaly wut i was looking for at the time....