Violent Running

As of late, I’ve driven the car to a few events, it’s been acting all kinds of strange, and I’ve also gotten some compliments on the car.

I drove my car out to the Fontana Nissan toy drive back in December to give some toys out for the children. Someone really liked the car and took a picture

of it and then put it on a flier for a meet at Riverside Nissan, which I wont be making it to most likely. Which I’ll get to in a few moments.

I drove the car with no wipers to this event, you can imagine my frustration with a foggy windshield. On top of the fact it was raining cats and dogs, I decided it was time to finally fix my windshield wipers which haven’t worked since I bought the car.

Luckily, Jeff Jordan (GSXRRJordan) took a look at the wiring for me and discovered that the body harness wire for power had a break in it, we ran a fused wire to my dashboard fuse panel I made and bam. Wipers worked, Jeff also bought me a new pilot bushing for my shift lever as well as a rubber boot to cover my shifter housing. The car never had one and has been smoking really, really bad when I went fast in the car.

It still kind of does it now and then but only because I have yet to wire wheel the burnt transmission fluid off of my exhaust.

After that I was given a heads up about using my car as an “extra” for Crime Scene Investigation : Las Vegas, so my car basically made about 250 bucks for itself to buy a catch can and it’s wheel spacers.

The car itself obviously was drivable, but it wasn’t running 100 percent, something was retarding my timing, it was giving way too much fuel, my low end power was like non existent.

I ended up taking some videos to try and let some internet armchair mechanics diagnose my issue.

http://www.vimeo.com/8388425

http://www.vimeo.com/8542377

Basically It was deemed that I needed to get this thing to someone to test it out and run a diagnostic, check my timing and compression, etc, etc.

http://www.vimeo.com/8645062

I took the car to Steve Shadows for him to give me the “whats what” with my car, after running into a snag with my vacuum hoses (my bad, I got rid of the 5/16th sized adapter hose before showing up) he found my timing was off by 33 degree’s, I’ve never hooked a gun up to the car to check it’s timing. But that explains how my car was able to make 9lbs of boost with no load. Because of the unburnt fuel getting into the turbine housing.

However now that I have a blacktop ecu in my car, I don’t think it’s even picking up a signal from my throttle position sensor, on top of the fact it’s currently zip tied to the throttle body (a whole other story on it’s own.)  I have a KA24DE TPS and throttle body on my intake, why I don’t know, was my previous ecu chipped or something to get a proper signal from it, I also don’t know but it’s probably why the car ran good 33 degree’s off of it’s timing settings before I purchased the motor.

Cause the car now is barely drivable, if it even gets to 4k rpm in any gear it wants to turn off. So it’s pretty much a garage ornament until I get a new throttle body and tps, AND modify my engine harness to use an SR throttle position sensor.

Recent modifications to the car are as follows.

I now have an s13/s14 hybrid valve cover to help with oil baffling properties. on the other side of the engine you can see my greddy catch can. I may keep it where it’s at and build some kind of line routing system for it when I have cash, or find a way to shove it next to my radiator. I plan on having new intercooler pipes fabricated for the car to get rid of unnecessary routing. As you can see I have an s14 cold pipe on an s13sr and quite frankly it’s retarded.

Before

After

the springs hadn’t really settled yet after dropping it back on the floor.

Drove the car around a bit, and for the next few days kept the tq wrench and wheel key in the car to make sure everything seated correctly and none of my lug nuts were coming loose. So far so good.

This is the passenger side of the car after everything settled. The pull is “slightly” more aggressive on this side of the car, but you can already see if I turned the coil overs a few more notches it would constantly contact the body. So I’m happy with the result, it’s not “HELLA FLUSH” material or anything, but it looks way better to me I think.

I also took the time to paint the spacers and hub hats before re-assembling everything for a cleaner look.

And I think once I have to replace these rear discs I’m going to do the altima rear brake disc upgrade which uses the z brake bracket, the original s14 rear caliper, and a LARGER altima rear rotor so I have the same stopping power as a z brake rear upgrade, without having to put a whole new rear brake setup (shoes, brake lines, etc, etc) on my car.

And I am currently in search of an sr20 throttle body with the tps sensor intact and possibly a pigtail for it.

thanks for looking.