Well after my recent gasket build I finally got the guts to take my Z for a test drive (no paper work yet so afraid of idiots and cops) and boy was I disappointed. It was sluggish and the exhaust tone and riddim was horrible. So Im like WTF. But I thought about it and knowing my clutch sucks a** right now and I have not yet tuned the ignition (new timing light didnt work) I figure thats probably it.
So I go to a local store and got a nice timing light for $71.15 that works AWESOME and got her at 15 degrees dead on. It was actually off by I think 15 or 10 degrees (Im pretty sure the term is retard since it was down by 30).
Anyway so all happy I go do a ECU check and I get code 13 (coolent temp sensor) and 34 (the dreadful det. sensor). Safety boost adding to the slug even thou I didnt run it hard.
FOLLOWING DAY
So knowing that one of the tabs in the connector of the coolent sensor is like broken in half I stick a piece of foil in the harnesses port and wedge that on making sure that it only touched what it was suppose to. Then after I let the car warm up I do another ECU check and I get........................55 YEAHHHHH!!!So it appears that the foil worked and when I first checked the ECU after tuning the ign. it still was displaying the stored codes in the memory. Then after I set it back to normal (clearing the memory) and tested the ECU again today (after warming up the engine) after all the probs were fixed the ECU found no faults. The reason I posted this is because I was reading alot in the search and people say that detonation does not cause the ECU to read code 34. Obviously I dont think this is the cause. My bad ign. timing was causing detonation which in turn caused the code 34. Fixing the timing caused the code to go away. Also even though related some what : (correct me if I'm wrong)
NA's - detonation causes the ECU to adjust the ign. timing by a few degrees (causing your car to run lean I think).
TT's - detonation puts your car in safety boost (from 9psi - 7psi) Im open to all criticism.
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