YangpaNemsay

Are you driving ***** to the wall? My 180 would suck gas like a *********a when I drove the living **** out of it.

Is your car registered out of state? you're going to have a tough time with a CA18DET under your hood in Cali. As long as your car is registered out of state, and you have military stickers on your windshield, the cops can't **** with you.

-Is your ECU throwing any codes?
-What is the condition of your O2 Sensor?
-Have you checked your Spark Plugs?
-Is your FPR aftermarket?
-PM me your email! (preferably your military and personal email!!!)

S13BoostMonster

No, i havent been driving ***** to the wall. Ive got on it once during that 15 minute period. by getting on it i mean running it hard through 3rd, then letting off. it idles at 1100 rpms when cold, then 2000 rpms when warm. the car still has the old owners cali plates on it. i want to call my Pennsylvania DMV and see if I can just take the plates off my Integra that I traded for this car and slap them on. i have military stickers on my windshield already.but yeah, i really want to avoid having to register it here. F that. lol. Im not getting any codes, no dummy lights, I havent hadtime to check the 02 sensor just yet, nor the sparkplugs. Im not sure about the FPR... Ill have to look tonight after my Command Wide Uniform Inspection

But yeah man, thanks for the ideas, givng me a place to start diagnosing. Id like to pick up the throw out bearing and the rear main seal, and try to fix those 2 issues this week. Yangpa- would you be free this weekend to help me? Id be using either the 32nd Street Navy base or MCRD...

S13BoostMonster

P.S. Pictures are now up. Ill take more this weekend when I clean the car up and actually have a real camera!

YangpaNemsay

idling at 2000rpm????

CA18DET idle speed is 750rpm at operating temperature.

if you are warming up at 1000rpm and idling at 2000rpm, i'd start checking vacuum hoses and start messing with your Idle Air Control Valve screw.

S13BoostMonster

I have found 2 vacuum hoses that are capped off with screws, but Im not sure what they lead to. i also found today that my dipstick is MIA, lol. and i gotta buy windshield wipers. Grrr. I bought the rear main seal and the paper gaskets, and also got my throwout bearing tonight. I am definitely planning on replacing these parts this weekend, as I threw a quart of Mobil1 Synthetic in it tonight, and its probably already been dripped.

S13BoostMonster

Oh yeah, quick question: I run very rich. Idle very high. At low RPMs the car stutters badly. And in reverse it likes to die.

Do these sound like timing symptoms???

Biggamehit

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^^

check all of your vacuums... plug the unused ones and make sure your FPR has a vacuum going to it.


that will be no issue.. just have abotu 8-9kish of cash and go see rob.... EAW has a state side partner who have and will import cars.

S13BoostMonster

so...checking vacuums: get a can of carb cleaner/parts cleaner and spray the lines while idling to look for bubbles? never had to do this before....

Biggamehit

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no...

spray one area at a time..... when and if you spray it the idle goes up, you have a leak..

the theory is..... the cleaner will be sucked into the intake manifold mixed with air/fuel and will cause a spike in idle.

YangpaNemsay

If your FPR has no vacuum running to it, it will raise the Fuel Pressure.






Casey, check your plugs and "read" em!

S13BoostMonster

lol i shoulda just stuck with Honda. J/K! Dont hurt me... lol. Ill try this out tonight...lol. thank you for the tips biggamehit. and Yang--- are u free this weekend? Ill buy you lunch. come on, u know u want lunch...lol

Biggamehit

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well remember the B-series motors are infamous for the old AICV coming loose lol.... im no stranger to honda.. got out of that game right about the time that the K20 became the rage.

YangpaNemsay

I might be free on Sunday.

S13BoostMonster

lol grr. so i pulled the plugs tonight. they were old NGKs. 2 of them, out of the 2 cylinders closest to the firewall, smell strongly of gasoline. the other 2 did not. i went and bought new NGK plugs, the BCPR6ES-11 ones. so, im going to put them in tomorrow, and see if it makes a difference. it probably wont. lol. the FPR has the necessary lines running to it, i checked that tonight as well. I'm beginning to think my timing is off... its most logical thing it seems. unless i truly do have a bad vacuum, which i have yet to check. does anyone know of where i could see a write-up for swapping out the throwout bearing, or the rear main seal? im going to make sure the rear main seal is indeed the culprit tomorrow, im hoping it isnt the oilpan gasket. on these motors, do we have to lift the motor to drop the oilpan? i have yet to get under my car to check it out... and Yang, let me know as soon as you know please Thanks

S13BoostMonster

Got 3 more opinions today, all of which from ASE certified techs...they said it may be a stuck open fuel injector or 2...sound feasible? The logic they gave was: The fuel injector is stuck open, dumping fuel. The car idles so high because it is trying to burn up all the fuel being poured in. The car stutters in low rpms because is basically getting drowned... any ideas/opinions?