1987 Nissan Pulsar, 3 Engine fires!

i bought this pulsar for 300 bucks, it was my first road car, at the age of 21. it went through a quart of oil about a week. used hardly any gas, and 5'th gear was gone, litteraly. it had almost 300,000 miles on it i think. T-tops, handled incredibly, and had no power. and the engine always sounded like it was going to break. i went 45 MPH into a deep ass puddle one time, and the car turned completely sideways, and went into a few foot deep ditch filled with water, and almost hit a tree. the car stoped within 10 feet of the initial slide out. water will slow you down i guess... anyway, the cv joint went bad, so i gave it to my cousin steve. (like usual) he fixed that, and drove it for a while, until the engine exploded some big metal piece through the crank case, loosing all the oil on the road. he went to his house and got his uninspected, uninsured 87 dodge 4wd pickup, overloaded with a slide in camper that was meant for a much stronger truck, and tried to pull the car back. but it was swarming with cops, so he came back alittle later, and towed it back. then one day i came over and decided to see if the thing would start in any way. and it bassially kept lighting on fire, until it lost spark at the end, and did nothing.

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• 1987
• 87
• nissan
• pulsar
• fire
• car
• engine
• carb
• lighing
• on
• gas

[ZONEGIANTTROOPER]

what happened to the pulsar?

[tommartyn]

well, it had well over 200,000 miles on the beast, and the engine was just tired of it all i guess. it went through about 1qt of oil every few days, and maybe it had been low too many times, because the one day, it blew a hole through the engine. then we did this and it would still crank, but just light on fire. then the last time, it lost spark.

[gnarkillgnarkill01]

i bought my 89 pulsar for 650....and its in perfect shape ahahah

[tommartyn]

hey! thats an awesome deal man, especially since i bought this thing for about 300 bucks, and it was in piss poor shape. well, the body wasn't bad at all actually, but the engine and trans were fucked. thing was crazy slow, but really fun to drive around.

[johrons]

dont feel bad mine was red and my first car at 21 and my t tops leaked

[tommartyn]

haha, nice :) yeah... i think mine might have leaked too. it was fun car though. but had some serious problems :) i'd possibly get another one if it was cheap enough

[gnarkillgnarkill01]

yeah i drive my 92 silverado around for the most part but when im pissed or angry i drive the pulsar...it makes me happy

[tommartyn]

Haa, just saw that, thats funny man. the car might not have wanted to particapate with being portable though, but i'm sure it would cook a mean burger!

[tommartyn]

the car had broken some serious engine part/parts while driving, and blew a hole in the side of the block, causeing all the oil to come out. he towed it back to his house, and we poured this gas type stuff for lanternts down the intake, and it came out the hole in the block, then the sparkplugs somehow ignighted the whole thing. i was just hopeing for a chance that it would start, and i was going to hold the thing floored till something even worse happened! never started though, then lost spark

[giberish9]

What was causing the fires?