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Tricky-Ricky

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  1. There are plenty of generic kits about, just don't go too large on the cooler, and make sure you use a thermostatic take of plate, or you will end up over cooling during the winter, which is just as bad if not worse than over heating, by the way most modern synthetic oils will handle temps up to and above 130C.

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  2. Hi guys, my oil has occassionally reached 120 degrees in my 09 370. I am soon to be doing a european rally in summer, would anyone recommend an oil cooler?

     

     

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    Under what circumstances does it reach 120C? on the track? i would be suspecting the temp sensor or gauge, or some other reason, before looking at fitting an oil cooler, put it this way it took a big single oil cooled turbo fitted to my 2JZ motor on a very hot day to push my running temps to over 120C.

  3. First you would need to know how hot the oil temps get, modern synthetic oils can handle temps up to 130C +, and i seriously doubt Nissan would design the oil system without keeping the temps in hotter country's in mind, so unless your tracking the car on a regular basis, i really wouldn't worry

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  4. It lives!!!! was expecting the Amals to leak all over the place, and flood it but no it started almost first kick, and does so pretty much every time, still smokes a bit too much , but i am hoping it will clear itself once it gets a chance thoroughly warm up, was a little worried when the oil pressure took a while to come up, still a little low for my taste but that could be the gauge, so will run it up a few more times and then take it for a quick spin in the next few days.:grinno:

     

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  5. This sort of thing is allays going to happen, its just the current political/social/racial climate that needs to put labels to it.

    There are always going to be nutters/murder's/fanatics in this world, if this had happened in the 50s-60s it would have been attributed to the criminal underworld or the Russians.

  6. Is the tuner in the TV working correctly, IE does it just report no signal or another fault? what TV is it? all kind of depends what you want, my TV has built in satellite positioner as well so i have a larger motorised dish, but if you just have free-sat then you just need a small fixed dish and universal LNB, which you can ger cheap from ebay.

  7. Transmission cooler wise it shouldn't hurt to go 25, although for road you wont need the same cooling as being tracked, , but if your talking oil cooler you can definitely over cool.

    Well am I correct to think I can replace my transmission cooler with the oil cooler?

     

    Also I'm not tracking the car but aesthetically the 9 isn't doing it for me - too small. 19 or 25 are sizes I like.

     

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    You may find that a large oil cooler will over cool transmission fluid, although i am not 100% on that, the std units are pretty small anyway, and should be quite sufficient for normal road use, oil coolers are designed for passing move viscus fluid IE engine oil and so may be overkill.

  8. i ran HFCs without a re-map for a year with no issues. Yes the EML came on after 1k miles but the re-map @ Abbey sorted that out.

     

    And yes, the zed will run lean once the decats or HFCs are on.

     

    Can you explain just how the engine runs lean with decats. and by how much, AFR etc, as air fuel is determined by incoming airflow,and lambda feedback, so anything that increases/decreases this will be compensated for by lambda feedback,

    so in order for the ECU not to be able to compensate AFRs would need to be way out of range which decats alone would not do, if this was the case a lot of Z would be in a bad state.

  9. Should be fine, nearly all lambda sensors have a M18 1.5 thread.

    Cheers mate! I'm sure my mates garage will know what goes where, but just out of interest, where do these go then? I take it the the lambda senors are either before or after the cats and not connected to the cats directly? Excuse the daft questions :blush:

     

    The ones your trying to stop showing a CEL are the in cat lambdas, which show a slightly different signal to the main, they are there for two reasons, firstly to notify if the cats are overheating which means that they are failing/blocked, and secondly as a back up should the main lambdas go down.

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  10. I guess its a case of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, i bought one rather than a Z, as i think its a nicer looking car, far more practical and with the same performance.

  11. Fuel economy stuffers in cold weather due to cold start ups and the length of time it takes the engine to reach correct opperation temp.

     

    That's another reason too, however it shouldn't make a vast amount of difference unless temps are sub zero all the time, modern engines are designed for quick warm up and the VQ is no exception with a rad bypass pipe to help, so cold enrichment time in theory shouldn't be a lot different, at least not enough to cause that change in consumption.

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