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My girlfriend has a CA 180SX, and its acting very strangely :)

The car idles quite roughly, but then if you drive the car, it can become sort of ok. On acceleration there is quite a lot of blue/black smoke out the back, and if you rev the car and put your hand over the end there's lots of little specks of brown stuff that lands on your hand.

There's definitely not as much power as there was.

I suspected coils, but someone said it won't idle like it does if it was a coil. My brother suspects air flow meter? Could this affect it like this?

Cheers.

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Blue -ish smoke sounds a bit scary. If there was a problem with ignition/spark or mixture (faulty AFM) I would expect black/rich smoke or even white/grey/rusty smoke. To me any blue smoke means somewhere along the way oil is being burnt. Don't know, I suggest seeing an expert you can trust.

I had a mate with a 180SX with the CA motor. His was showing similiar symptoms to yours and it turned out to be the turbo. Its hard to say without seeing/hearing it in person

I was under the impression that blue smoke meant oil, as would the brown speckles, but that was in the days before cats. How is the oil level? Have you checked the turbo for signs of any oil leak problems there?

With the AFM it is a pretty easy job to to pull it off and hit it with some carby cleaner - would be worth doing whether or not it is the problem as it is such an easy job.

i know this is gunna sound pretty stupid, but you bothered trying to change the plugs????

-erratic idle

-you drive it and it kinda clears up?(under load)

-acceleration it pumps black smoke(fuel not burning)

-specks of fuel on your hand if held over exhaust?

my previous ride was a 1974 KE20 toyota corolla with a CA18det.

same prob with mine, i was changing a set of plugs every 4 weeks. mainly due to the microtech, but hey, theres always a rule of thumb with mechanics, try the simple things first!

hope i helped, cheers

Cheers guys ... I took the AFM off and cleaned it with carby cleaner. Then I disconnected the battery and left it overnight. Today it seems to be running ok, so we'll see how it goes in the next couple of days!

Thanks very much for the help :)

Hey JiMiH,

Did I help by those wheels? Going to give your poor old federals a few laps of Symmons plains Sunday....

Car looks good... and as for your thread, take the KISS principal. And check the easy things first! Hey it may well be a turbo seal, but plugs, AFM, etc you probably need to be doing as maintenance anyhowe... and think of the points from the girl.

When racing Superbikes we pulled everything apart one day chasing a missfire. A plug faulty, even though new! Never assume and start at the beginning.

Regards

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