95SentraSeries3

I recently bought a 2nd hand car (just 10 days ago), its a 1995 Super Saloon Series 3. It was in good running condition when we took the car home from the last owner except that we noticed the car was stalling (or choking). We didn't feel it when we test drive the car before buying it.

We didn't pay much attention & thought maybe it was because of driving style. The following day while I was driving it, I parked the car for a while to buy something & it wouldn't start anymore the next time. It sounded like there was no gasoline getting into the engine although gauge still says there's ¼ left in the tank. I asked help & pushed the car to the nearest gas station & had the tank filled to ¾. The engine started & I was able to go home.

The next day, the same problem occurred but the car wouldn't start at all. We cleaned the fuel filter but the problem remains. We thought maybe its the electronic in-tank fuel pump as the fuel getting to the filter doesn't look pressurized at all. We replaced the fuel pump yesterday but again, there's still the problem. We changed the spark plugs although it had been changed recently (the mechanic says bosch platinum spark plugs are not compatible with my car's specs. We changed the distributor O-ring because there was also oil coming out from it. We also changed the PCV valve.

The engine started after doing all this but when we were test driving the car, the engine died suddenly while it was moving as if there was no electricity getting to the engine. We had it rested for a while and was able to restart the engine & went home. Back home it died again & wouldnt start anymore. We changed everything. Its like a dead end for me. Can somebody help me please. Much appreciated.

No-Pain

My first guess is electronic ignition controller unit. Customers tell me pretty often that car stalls after a while of driving or wont start when being warm or won't start at all (and doesn't either give a spark). So there's a good change that you find your fault from ignition controller.

You can try to determine whether a spark comes to an engine or not when it does this stalling thing. It's easy, just unplug one ignition wire from then engine and attach an old plug to it and see what happens. If spark is totally gone it's pretty propable that ignition controller is broken.

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Nissan Almera (equal to Sentra) 1997 1.6 litres
Mods so far:
-Added disc brakes to rear
-All corners have got new springs and shock absorbers (monroe reflex)
-custom made 4-->1 exhaust manifold with 2" piping -Some cool kameleont painting
-Head work done. Porting, some valve job (lightening, cleaning and polishing). Intake- and exaustports on the head totally re-designed and grinded.
-Some gauges: oil temp, oil pressure, fuel pressure, meter, lambda and external rev. meter with change ligth
-Free flow air-filter (calculated intake pipe lenght) with CAI.
-Lightened battery, moved to back

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