no power what do i do

[willystyle240]

i have a 92 240sx with and i just installed a ca18det in it but i cant get any power. im not sure what the timming is suposed to be and how bad dose the stock maf sensor hurt me being i do have a xs sport t28 turbo on it it came with the motor i have brand new plugs. is there suposed to be a boost solenoid. because my motor did not come with one. some one please help.

[Zero260]

timing is 15* BTDC, read the FAQs at the top of the forum and you'd know that.

you don't need a boost solenoid, you do need to have a vacuum line running to the wastegate accuator on the turbo thought.

can you get any pics of your motor/turbo set-up posted up?

that might help us help you.

[Masterdebater]

yea post some pics.also when u say ur not getting any power, are u saying ur car is boosting shytty or ur car wont run

[willystyle240]

ok i figured out part of my problem my cam timming was off. now i never messed with a coil over plug engine before so how do i get a timing light on this motor to messure the timing. now my wastgate has a 15psi spring in it. my turbo is a t28 from xs power. now it drives alright until you get into boost then it just dosnt seem to have any guts. every thing down to the intercooler set up is stock except my turbo. do i need up grades.

and i will work on getting pics for yall

[boost_boy]

Welcome to NICO my friend and especially congratulations on being a new CA18DET owner. There's a gang of information in the stickies that most of the moderators contributed included myself as well as other members. All I ask is that you please take the time to try and filter through some of the information as well as using the search button for your dilemmas before diving-in with issues because most of the problems you'll come across has been covered. Guys as much as you all like to help people, it's okay to help them by referring them to the search function to reference our archive as well as referring them to the information in the stickies. The only way to learn is to read/study, ask questions and of course hands-on. Good luck with your dilemma and we'll help you as much as we can as long as you put forth an effort to learn something about the engine you're dealing with.

Thanks,

Dee

[Masterdebater]

check ur vacuum lines.check ur wastegate check ur fuel filter/rgulator and pumpi know searching is no fun so thats why im giving u a few things to check that i checked when i had the same problem. trust me tho as much as it doesnt seem, searching will help and ull also have a knowledge of ur own and will be teaching others rather than be tought let us know how it comes and ill help as much as possible but there are much more knowledgable ppl on here such as Dee ( ) that will be more of a help

[willystyle240]

well here are the codes 12,34,51,23,45 what are they.

[boost_boy]

well here are the codes 12,34,51,23,45 what are they.

I can easily tell you what they mean, but you still have not used the power of your computer to do your own homework. I'll tell you this, you have a wiring issue in your harness. Find out what those codes mean and start inspecting your harness for a possible rookie installation. Guys please let him look for this information as this is the way he's going to learn just like most of you did. Good job on reading the ecu's codes

Dee

[Sil40sK]

some one please help.

Download a FSM (factory service manual) from the numerous links posted here. Read it, then read it again, the memorize as much of it as you can and keep it handy for reference. Over 90% of questions I see asked on here can easily be answered via some reading of the FSM. I understand it's much easier and less daunting to just go and make a post about it here (I'm guilty, I've done it many times) but trust me the more you use the FSM, the more you'll realize how convenient and useful it is and the less you'll be asking questions on here in the future. Also welcome to NICO, it's always good to have another CA owner onboard.

[willystyle240]

ok im new too this forum thing ive never gotten on one before so some of these things your telling me like stickeis what is that. i got my car running good it was pretty powerfull but while i was test driving it back fired not real bad but it did and then it just started missfiring and wont idle and wont get over 50 mile an hour or 3000 rpm and is running so rich that it just pours black smoke out the tail pipe. and i tried to down load the fsm but the only computer i have is at work and it wont download the manual. so some one please help me this is my only driver and the only reason i did this swap is because my ka threw a rod threw the block.

[boost_boy]

ok im new too this forum thing ive never gotten on one before so some of these things your telling me like stickeis what is that. i got my car running good it was pretty powerfull but while i was test driving it back fired not real bad but it did and then it just started missfiring and wont idle and wont get over 50 mile an hour or 3000 rpm and is running so rich that it just pours black smoke out the tail pipe. and i tried to down load the fsm but the only computer i have is at work and it wont download the manual. so some one please help me this is my only driver and the only reason i did this swap is because my ka threw a rod threw the block.

12= Your afm or it's circuitry is experiencing a fault which usually will trip code 34 (hopefully you wird-up the knock sensor) which usually trips code 45 (leaky injector) as a part of it's failsafe mode and if that doesn't help you got a leak somewhere in your piping or you've burned some wires perhaps the afm wire on your exhaust? You have to look your car over real good. We're not there, so we only can give hypothesis as to what your dilemmas are.

Dee

[willystyle240]

ok well last night i disconnected the battery over night to clear the codes so i can se what code s pop up again. and now its just throwing a code 55 which i think that means that its see no problem according to the info i got anyway. and it is still running real rich missing real bad and not going over 2800 rpm. so i pulled my timming cover to make sure it didnt jump time and if im my imformation on the timing belt marks are right then it was off one tooth on each cam. so i retimed it and it didnt want to fire at all at first then it finnally fired and still ran the same i checked for leaks in the inercooler and found nothing checked my codes again and still code 55. will my maf or o2 or any other sensor have anything to do with this. oh and i hear a weird ticking noise from my injectors. my are gapped to 1.1 mill. again my turbo is bigger but its what came with the engine. i the codes that i had given earlier in my other post where not right i read my lights wrong because it was befor i found imformation on it so now im not getting any codes but code 55.

[Masterdebater]

ur t28 has an external wastegate? wow..anywho try checking all ur vacuum lines cuz mine did this when i had a gay homemade boost controller on it and it was effing up the vacuum

[driftin8ez]

Sounds like your maf is ****ed. Try and run your car with it unplugged. If it stays the same or runs better than your maf or the wirng going to it is screwed. Please do not try and drive your car until it is running right. You can really mess it up trying to run it like that. Also note that with the maf unplugged you wont be able to rev past 2500 or so rpms.

[willystyle240]

ur t28 has an external wastegate? wow..anywho try checking all ur vacuum lines cuz mine did this when i had a gay homemade boost controller on it and it was effing up the vacuum

no its internally waste gated.

[willystyle240]

i have my maf from my ka24de will it work or what mafs will work and how would i have to wire them if i used them

[boost_boy]

timing is 15* BTDC, read the FAQs at the top of the forum and you'd know that.

you don't need a boost solenoid, you do need to have a vacuum line running to the wastegate accuator on the turbo thought.

can you get any pics of your motor/turbo set-up posted up?

that might help us help you.

Like he says, post a pic of your set-up! Because you're firing-off information and we're feeding back information that's getting nothing resolved. What ecu are you running? Is it chipped? If it is chipped there's one of your problems right there. If it's not chipped, start looking at your harness because obviously something's wrong. Also, check the voltage of your AFM signal wire while blowing through it because I've seen bad afm in the past that puts out enough voltage to screw-up an ecu real good.

Dee

[willystyle240]

OK I WILL SEE WHAT I CAN DO TO GET SOME PICS ON HERE and as far as i know my computure is not chipped how do i tell whether it is or not. like i said it ran verry well untille it back fired and then thats when this happended

[ilovecoupes]

i have my maf from my ka24de will it work or what mafs will work and how would i have to wire them if i used them

nope, a ka24e will work, but DE won't

[bentvalves]

do a leakdown test.......my money is on piston ring lands.

experienced exact same symptoms in an rb25.

one little pop and that was all she wrote.