S13 cam in S14 caused problems, please help

[kapowered]

I put an exhaust cam from a S13 in my car yesterday(a S14), and decided to take it out. With it in the car would stall if you didn't keep on the throttle, also the engine didn't sound right from 5000-6500rpm. I put the S14 cam back in and now the car idles very rough and was stalling until I rasied the idle. Now it just isn't running anything like it was. I'm guessing that I screwed up the fuel maps. Will the ECU make the engine go back to normal after a few days, or does something else need to be done?

[240fluke]

When you installed the exhaust cam did you:
1) Install new shims with the cam?
2) Have the exhaust cam properly repinned to use as the intake cam?

You might want to reset the ECU on the car. Disconnect the battery over night and that should clear up any error codes that are being popped by the ECU. Have you checked to see if any error codes are being spit out right now? I would definitely check that before you disconnect the battery though.

From my understanding of how it works, if your shims for the cams are out of spec, you might be having gases leaking through the chamber, which would cause it to not be properly used by the system (i.e. Loss of Power). How was the car running before hand?

Tim '95 SE

[kapowered]

I'm not getting any error codes. Excuse my ignorance, but what are the shims, are they the disks that the cam lobes press down? How do I check to see if they need to be replaced? I put the S13 cam in as an exhaust cam. It seemed to line up the same as the S14 cam. The car was running really well before this. I think that the car is running rich now.

[d240t2]

Yes, the shims are what the cam lobes press down directly on.

I don't think that your problem is cam related. You swapped cams, and then you swapped back, and now it doesn't work. That means something else got messed up in the process. Perhaps a connector is disconnected or the MAF ground isn't that good or a plug wire isn't pushed on well or something like that.

Dennis

[kapowered]

Whenever I put the S13 cam in I F%&ked up and put it in 1 tooth off. I have it back and running with the S13 cam. Now it will sparaticly lose power when under fairly hard acceleration. Also the timing advances greatly when revving the engine. Any ideas?

[240racer]

it sounds like it might be sensing knock and pulling timing. You can try running 92 octane or adjusting the timing, maybe bringing it down a little to 17 or something.