Project D - 1 DEC 2007

I think I changed my mind... Listen for your selfs...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbseh_lUryo

I drove the car last night the noise is still there, didn't have an effect on power or anything, but then at one stage I did loose power and it seemed like was running low/no compression or 3 cylinders... then it came back idled fine... then every now and then loose power...

Fuck if the problem was just consistent and I can pin it down it would be at least a small relieve when it does go up in flames 😈

that noise is the strangest thing i've ever heard.

wtf???

its like a musical triangle...

did you check for musical irish dwarves in the sump??? you may just get a pot full of gold!!!

no seriously, very strange and the engine sounds ok otherwise. you aren't running stock management are you? i'm sure you have wolf, right? i reckon coil replacement on these motors would help, but i'm not 100% why i have that feeling! cos everyone and common sense says that the coild should be fine!!!

Good luck with the fault finding..hopefully it isnt something major.

Many a time i've wanted to set my car alight 😈 I just dont have the heart

Woowweee it sounds just like the sound I want my car to make when I switched off and opened the door and forgot to put the lights off 🙂

From the video I can't tell where the sound is coming from, but what a weird sound - sounds like the side of the engine tapping against one of the shiny pipes or something. Doesn't sound terminal though...

Thought about it a bit, it sounds to clear to be coming from the inside of the engine. My advice would be to take off all the fan belts and then try it, that way you can see if it is not maybe something like a waterpump or even some thing that got in your altinator or AC compresor.

PS love what you have done with your car, if i had the money 😀

Desertrat wrote:

Thought about it a bit, it sounds to clear to be coming from the inside of the engine. My advice would be to take off all the fan belts and then try it, that way you can see if it is not maybe something like a waterpump or even some thing that got in your altinator or AC compresor.

I have done that, the only belt on there at the moment is the water pump, but I even ran it without that for a small while to check... Well when standing close the engine it does sound like it coming from the manifold area, its also clearly heard inside and under the car. But it resonates through the exhaust which makes it quite load in the car.

Her's a wild card guess. Do you think it's a valve....?"exhaust side"

WooHaa wrote:

Her's a wild card guess. Do you think it's a valve....?"exhaust side"

It might just be hey... it might just be.

I have this gut feeling that it might be a conrod and there is too much play on the journal... but that is just my mind pondering around.

I have decided that the car will be taken to an expert and he will be able to tell me what's wrong. And what needs to be done, costs and what not. So yeah this weekend I'll slap the car together (put back bonnet and bumper) and toe it to where it needs to go. Then if he needs the car for a month or two at least it gives me some comfort that she will be getting some attention.

The other fuck up in my life... My Polo's engine has seen better days, it daily sees 6000rpm and 180km/h, and thus the abuse has now clocked up, so this one might need a rebuilt SOON and thus the Nissan must be working for the time that I'll need to rebuild the Polo, at least that will be cheap rebuild and quick.

i knew you'd come through. i will show the video to my mate craig from kustom konsepts, see if he may know.

you met him at toby's house.

maybe we can come see you this weekend to have a listen???

VC

Hope you come right with your engine, it's always bad when things like this happen.

veecee wrote:

maybe we can come see you this weekend to have a listen???

Hey sorry only saw this now... Ja we should arrange... I might be working on Toby's car the coming weekend again, but my house is 10min away 8)

Hennie Marais wrote:

Hope you come right with your engine, it's always bad when things like this happen.

Ja I hope so too...

The weekend I took off the waterpump, it's running off center 🙄 Going to go swap it around... Then then I'm going to clean everything up and take the car to someone... Not really in the mood to work on my car at the mo :x

Vlade wrote:

I might be working on Toby's car the coming weekend again

raai 'n braai?

shot, need sumfin to do this weekend!
just you so far?

2c: i had a horrendous knock/ping sound after installing me waterpump - so much so that i only let it run for about 5 secs after starting - then i got scared. after taking everything apart again, it came out to be the "cambelt cover kinda thing" at the lower end that was hitting the pulley (huge relief) - maybe its just something in that line - mine also sounded like it was coming from deep within!

Well I'm hoping it is something small like that...

Returned the old waterpump yesterday, really funny that the waterpump was running off-center... Fitted the new one yesterday, just waiting for a helping hand to fit the timing belt then they car is ready to be towed.

Vlade wrote:

then they car is ready to be towed.

towed???

to get checked out

Ok... SO I didn't take the car in this weekend... I was missing a boost pipe haha... Reason I had my SSQV flanch fitted, and I had to wait a bit as it was basically done for free.

Fitted my SSQV BOV

So now the car is ready to be towed and to be taken in... I actually want to find out if someone doesn't have a car trailer... one of those things that you load the front wheels on and you tow the car somewhere... better than doing the rope trick... And I only trust one guy in the rope trick... Slade 8)

Im better at being towed in a SX than driving the thing 😳

A mate literally just got rid of his car trailer, otherwise i would have organised that

How loud is that dump valve??

And I only trust one guy in the rope trick... Slade

Vlade, give Widowshirts Wife a chance at this. She is good man. Sure Widoshirt wouldnt mind? Reference on our web page 200sx.za.net.
http://www.200sx.za.net/cars/200sx/article.php?section=readers_articles&article=1 😂 😂 😂

hahaha... that was the funnies thing I've read in a long time

It made my day! 😂

@Gary not sure how load that DV is, havn't tested it out yet... the tuner will prob know before me... but I don't think its overly load.