Category Archive: Engine Tech

Apr 24

S12 – Megasquirting ~ empedocles99

Dunno if anyone cares, but I’m going to use this thread, over time, to detail my Megasquirt adventures in my mk1 1985 Notchback ca20e. If you don’t know what it is, it’s an aftermarket fully tunable (and inexpensive) fuel and ignition controller. You can read up on it here: http://www.megasquirt.info/ I’m going to run megasquirt’n’spark on …

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Jan 06

VG30 Carb Swap Guide

Carb’ing the VG30e is simple, it sounds trivial but it really isn’t. Now why the question is why? Well for one Datsun 510 Owner’s do this often already and this question has been asked on the cs12 forums a few times. Granted you will not get much of a different performance gain, just the satisfaction …

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Jan 05

KA24E and KA24DE Swap for the S12

KA24e/de are nearly the same for the swap only real difference is the wiring. One side note: This swap can come off as confusing and hard to understand. One keynote I found was a video, this video helps with the wiring issues. https://youtu.be/7DEQZRBq-Fc FSM recommended to locate the one for the ka swap pulled (240sx …

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Jan 05

CA18DET Swap.

//details how to swap in an CA18det There is a few guides out there how to swap in the Motor set. Sam’s post from 2006 – Download PDF – Club-S12 – 18det S12 Swap Guide Link to the guide is here: http://club-s12.org/retro4/index.php?topic=14859.0 Some key notes this guide pretty much tells you that with the motor mounts from …

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