Just when you thought I was done. Dave’s 180SX build.

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srsly bro, stop pouring money into that piece of shit KA. You're buying all these balling parts, just buy the stuff to finish your SR and put it in.

When was the last time that KA ACTUALLY ran properly?

even all that shit you bought to tune it up is too much work for a KA when you have an SR just chillin.

I know your goal was to not do the SR until you popped that KA, but that ka aint never going to pop because its never going to run right in the first place. Idk, to me it just seems like you're wasting your time and money on that thing. This car deserves an upgrade.

Plus Ill buy that header off you, just sayin

i mean.. me being a KA hater aside. I understand the mentality of staying KA until it blows before swapping. No sense in ditching a perfectly good motor.

But this motor isn't perfectly good. It doesn't run for shit and you keep pumping money and effort into it with little to no success. At some point you could have had all the SR stuff done and been happier.

just seems like more headache than its worth.

Lol I told him that since day 1. I keep telling him to put that sr in already. I'm just hoping that motherfucker will start. That thing is been sitting around for like 4 years. I'm call that tv show hoarders on him. Motherfucker has a shit load of car parts, aero, wheels, etc.. That just been laying around collecting dust.

Believe me, I see your point. But it is too little to late to turn back now. It's July already. I figure I might as well get this going soon and drive what I can. If I just ditch the ka now, Id have to deal with racking up dough for parts just to get it going. Not to mention the down time in swaping everything over.


QUESTION: would a tps be giving me these issues? My last two Ka's were auto so they had an A/T tps equipped. This ka has an M/T tps. I am still running an A/T ecu also. It's only thing that comes to mind right now.

Also. I made an observation the other day, dunno of its a clue or something. Seems like if I rev up slowly, it'll rev up fine with minimal breakage. If i floor it, it'll start breaking up, hit a wall, and continue breaking up in that pattern as it tries to go up in revs. I might make a small vid or something to better explain this. I suck at describing what is going on.

D*S Tomy Guns wrote:

Lol I told him that since day 1. I keep telling him to put that sr in already. I'm just hoping that motherfucker will start. That thing is been sitting around for like 4 years. I'm call that tv show hoarders on him. Motherfucker has a shit load of car parts, aero, wheels, etc.. That just been laying around collecting dust.

lol. Literally 3/4's of what is in my garage is yours dickhead.

yo, Im way to lazy to read back. Summarize your problems for me so I can ponder.

I am gonna make a small vid after work to try to better explain what is going but basically...

Idles fine, seems to rev up fine if I slowly take it up but as soon as I floor it, it Starts breaking up all bogus.

Plug Gaps? Not as big of a deal on NA stuff but who knows.

Double checked that. New and old plugs were both set to OE spec.

Iono mannnn, BUT THAT MUFUCKA RAW THO!!!!!!!

check the knock sensor?

car sounds nice as hell tho

wait . . .is this thing running?

I'd post it up on zilvia the car nerds might know

D*S Roski wrote:

wait . . .is this thing running?

It runs. But not well enough to drive. If that makes any sense..

TPS?
Vacuum Leak?

fuck idk, I hate motors, I just limped my 14 over to a local shop because im sick of trying to figure out what the fuck is wrong with it.

Thing sounds fucking rad though!

I'm pretty sure its a vacuum leak my sr ran fine until i unhooked all the vacuum lines for the avcr and then it started doing this same thing. but again. yours is n/a

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Still nothing yet. I'm gonna try to clean my maf sensor to see if that does anything. Or steal tomys for a while after he dips to Mexico. Ha.

Installed an extra empty beer bottle holder around the garage.



Just kidding. It's just some cool guy duct leading perfectly up to my Tomei intake filter. I've always loved how it looked ever since I noticed it sitting behind Koguchi's Ikeya Formula 180. love it.


Incase you were wondering where the other two spots are though. Lulz.

instead of having that going to the intake, you should have it go to the brakes.

I just like the way it looks. I guess technically it is not there for any functional purposes. Ha.

Ducting to a stock KA...