i had the same kinda issues with my Z. go to find out that my grounding went bad on the whole car. It fried the ecu, coils packs, sensors. Was a bad situation. But thats what happened to me. Check the main body ground on the passangers side and the ecu ground on the drivers side. Best of luck!

 

that dont sound good... just for a simple reference, how much was the ECU to replace? and to the next question, how much was it to fix the whole issue that you had (ecu, coils packs, sensors etc...)

did you have the bogging out as well? where exactly is the ground on the passenger side?! is it in the car itself or is it in the engine bay?

any info helps! thanks bro

 

Ya had bogging, car would start some times not others. Then it stopped turning over completely, the cluster came on but that was about it.

Ecu with reprograming was like 1000-1500, coil packs were about 700, random sensors and stuff about another 1000. total job cost me close to 4k.

The main body ground is located passangers side in the engine bay. i'll take a picture for you tomorrow. The one for the ecu, is located on drivers side in the engine bay on the fender kinda.

I'll get pictures up tomorrow.

 

Damn... 4k?? that's f'ed up... what caused this? or did it just randomly take a dump?

 

Do you have a code scanner? It sounds like the ECU shut it down trying to prevent a bigger problem. Get a scanner, see why the ecu shut it down, probably a failing sensor.

 

what caused it?..... Bad grounding the major body ground went bad and the ecu ground went bad. Makes for a bad situation.

I have a code scanner, i can stop by and see if you want. Your call man.

PM me if your interested.

 

This happened to me a few months ago. Problem would occur randomly. I took it to Perf. Nissan and they told me that my key wasnt holding the code correctly. They reprogrammed it and i havent had any problems since.

 

performance nissan ftw! they have always been super nice and do very good work. Only nissan dealership i would trust.

 

Sounds to me like you have 2 different problems. My guess for the starting problem is that either the alarm is causing it or your clutch pedal switch. As far as the bogging out/stalling problem I would venture to guess MAF or throttle body. Get the code read it will tell you for sure. There's not too much that would cause a no start condition with no crank besides an alarm or clutch switch. Good luck.

 

I let my battery run low to where the engine would not crank. I charged it up and afterwards it just would crank but not start. I scanned it and found a low voltage to MAF code, after clearing it fired right up.

 

DUDE THAT WOULD BE AWESOME!
I live in La Habra... i will PM you and see what day is best for you, i will keep my schedule open even if i have to quit my job lol

 

cant be the alarm, i completely gutted it and there is no factory alarm in play... i hope scope will come through when he can and i will post the code and we can go from there.

 

^^
any other ideas?

 

my car is still sick. i go into the garage every day and bring her a cup of water and leave it by the front tire but she never drinks it. hope she gets well soon

 

hey sorry man for not responding. Been in sac all weekend. i sent you a pm with my number and text you. hit me back when you get a chance. you arent far. so i can stop by pretty much whenever works for you and hopefully get all this solved.

 

im really sorry about your car but this post made me LOL

 

haha +1 plus his sig is pretty funny 2 hope your car gets better soon bro

 

Seriously? 100+ degrees in the middle of November?

Wow, that's nuts.

-Tim

 

welcome to life in southern california, mr northwest arkansas.

it's finally starting to cool down though.. it's cold at nights and not AS warm during the day.

 

It's not nuts... it's girls wearing mini skirts and bootie shorts in the middle of November!

Btw Cris, how's your car coming?