Whats going on?

[JordanButter]

When I drive for sometime the car will just die. Its not any specific amount of time other than the longer it sits the longer it runs. I.E. It in my garage for two hours = drinves for 30mins, in the shop for a week = drives for an hour. If I try to start it right after it dies it will idle for a second and then die. If I let it sit for a while it will run again for a bit. It threw error code 0340 (cam angle sensor), which I think is bull but you never know. Now to catch everyone up after it did it the first time I replaced the thermostat, radiator cap, flushed the coolant, replaced almost all gaskets execpt the head. I also replaced the honeycombs in the mafs and zeroed out the afc. I'm all out of ideas and anything will help! Thanks!

[Cloud]

sounds like your CAS is bad, especially if its throwing the code =P

[Theorem]

I used to have a simalar problem. My situation was not the CAS but the crank angle sensor. Replace the CAS and if the problem is still there check for the crank angle sensor see if the crank plate is hitting against the crank sensor or not. My situation was the crank angle sensor was not tight.

[drcustom]

Umm if you have a cam angle sensor then you don't have a crank angle sensor. Since his car has a cam angle sensor (im assuming its a 6bolt) it wont have a crank angle sensor.


I've had a hard time keeping this straight myself...

If it's a "CAS" (camshaft angle sensor) it seems that people mean the 1g CAS.

However, on the 2g's, you utilize a camshaft angle sensor (aka cam sensor) and the crank angle sensor (aka the crank sensor).

Is CAS offical 1g lingo or is there a good reason not to refer to a 2g cam sensor as a CAS? I would think a camshaft angle sensor is still that, even if you call it a cam sensor or a CAS, shouldn't the use of CAS be interchangeable?

For 1g and 2g, it essentially does the same thing, sends practically the same signal and is used by the ecu the same way...aside from the plugs, you should be able to drop a 97-99 2g motor into a 1g ecu car and have it bolt up and run with no mods and utilizing the crank and cam sensors in place of the CAS.

Personally, I like to refer to the 2g sensor as a cam sensor, and the 1g sensor as a CAS, but I only do that to keep them straight without talking about the specific year of the car.

[ktiedt]

Isnt the "crank sensor" called the Crank Position Sensor and the "cam sensor" called the "cam angle sensor"... regardless of years?

And depending on the motor you cant just swap the motor and expect it to work because in some years the due to the location of the sensor the signal would be inverted and on most cars that causes issues with starting/idling (hence why DSMlink has the option to invert the CAS)

[drcustom]

Isnt the "crank sensor" called the Crank Position Sensor and the "cam sensor" called the "cam angle sensor"... regardless of years?


Ok sue me ;) All I was trying to say is that I don't think it really matters what you call it, I'm just thinking that I've seen Theorem's 2g and assume that he at least knows if he has a crank sensor or not.


And depending on the motor you cant just swap the motor and expect it to work because in some years the due to the location of the sensor the signal would be inverted and on most cars that causes issues with starting/idling (hence why DSMlink has the option to invert the CAS)

You got me here...include 'If you invert the cam signal if it's a 95-96 car' somewhere in my rant :) (BTW - it took a while, but I realized if you take a few mins and build the tiny little circuit that RRE has on thier site, you don't need to make any other modifications...just an FYI because for a while I thought you had to swap plug and/or wires/ECU pins).