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Um. did you set the engine to TDC and THEN try to put in the distributor with the rotor a little before post #1, so when the teeth catch the post goes right to post #1?

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I "want" to say piston slapping, but because its essentially a newly rebuilt motor makes me say otherwise.

The location of the chip confirms what I "want" to say.

I think who ever you ordered your rings from gave you the wrong ones. I could be wrong though :p

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are your fins all bent on the radiator?

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Sava, the ignition system on the Ka is painfully simple. Do your basic tests and check the whole system out. If everything comes back ok, then its most likely your coil going out i guess, but iv never even heard of an internal s14 coil going out. They can get fried by things, but never just failing...

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You have air trapped in your coolant system. Jack the front of the car by about 5-10 degrees and then run the car in neutral and rev is through the range. It should burp the system And, are you using straight water? I would use at least some anti freeze. It will decrease the rate of evaporation of ...

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AK-Z wrote:You have air trapped in your coolant system. Jack the front of the car by about 5-10 degrees and then run the car in neutral and rev is through the range. It should burp the system

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kav wrote:well it hasnt over heated on the highway ( turned off my fan) even after running it hard about 15 miles of almost always being in boost. i do believe that my radiator sux tho because once i get in town the temps start to raise and i turn on my fan.

stock radiator? Get an aux fan.

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You have air trapped in your coolant system. Jack the front of the car by about 5-10 degrees and then run the car in neutral and rev is through the range. It should burp the system

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depends on how often you are going to be using it.

If a lot, then look more at the cot of blades and the availability of them.

sears have one for like about $250 last time I checked. But its a little short for what I would need :p

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as far as the leak. did you adjust the cam lift properly?, see if the valve is seated properly.

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choosing hotter, or colder spark plugs?

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near the driver headlight

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LigouriRd. wrote:When my car was na since I ran premium anyway, I used to have the distributor cranked to about 25° base timing. You could be off a tooth or on one of the sprockets.

Ah, good point. s-14 did you manually retard the timing? I would just loosen the bolt and adjust by playing with the rotation.

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what kind of rings are you guys running?

I would do a compression test to see if its actually blowing into the crank case.

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you drill a hole in the distributor cap in the center and put a screw/bolt in. seriously, its that simple. but then you have to unplug the 2 pin connector on the distributor.

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How much piston end gap do you have?

And by resurface, do you mean the block deck? There is no repoint in doing that unless the block is warped. and if done too much, it can throw off you cam timing.

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I think there is still air in the system. did you try jacking the front up when you refilled? the KA has a habit of trapping air when level :p. jack it up about 10 degrees and try running the car in neutral, try to run it into boost, like you said when it overheats, and see what happens.

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rings and/or pistons. Pistons in respect to the ring lands breaking. might want to remove the head and look at the cylinder walls :p

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I don't think that its the MAF (although it could be). If it was working fine before disconnecting the hot pipe, then its the safc tune. You need to retune the fuel curve. it should be running rich, but the 13-14 a/f you said before tells me that it is a little on the lean side. What rpm was that ag...

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probably an extra gasket thats used on the FWD version :p or even the pathfinder KA. I know the pathfinder KA had a totally different intake manifold.

might want to download the altima KA FSM and look around to make sure.

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Did you do a compression test right after you rebuilt it? If it was test and fine then, this shouldn't apply, but it could be that the rings were filed a little too much on that cylinder. idk, i'm guess throwing out ideas. :p

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Then its probably your egr valve opening if its still on there. Did you remove it or block it off? And did remove/block off the vacc lines on the bottom of the individual runner? Did you disable your safc, since its running NA.

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There are 4 relays to check. "retract relay" 1 is for the left 2 is for the right, and 3 and 4 are for both.

there is another relay inside the motor, but I don't think those are removable.

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uh search.

there is a whole forum section dedicated to this fuel/spark management.

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What did you use to tune for fuel when it was "turbo'd"? What connections did you disconnect on the intake side, in order to go turbo? Where is the boost gauge getting its signal from?

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that good news lol i thought maybe somethings wrong with my fuel pump at first. There might be quite a bunch of fuel in my lines from doing a compression test besides the fuel filter change, but not sure if that was the reason because i pulled my fuel pump fuse and harness connector on the distribu...

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I would pop out the piston. I want to say its the ring land, but I don't see them going in a 100 miles.

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If I had a picture I would have posted it. This gasket is not in the FSM and I CANNOT find a pic of someones block with this in one of the coolant holes. I described where I think it goes and what it looks like decently. Anyone that has done their own head gasket job should know what gasket/grommet...

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I would go to ACE hardware or home depot and get some block off fittings for the lines that lead into the cabin, just in case you want your AC back later on :p

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you're gonna have to "loosen" the radiator to get the condenser out from in front of the radiator.

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