Sumo

Idle speed is controlled by the computer. Which controls a little stepper motor near the throttle body. Maybe its full of crap, and is having trouble travelling to its full limitations. Other then that the idle speed has been set by the tuner, and thats that. Cheers Sumo

You still haven't told me if their is an electrical drain..... Get your amp meter out! My job is to sort out these problems And yes they can give very inconsistant results, which makes it very hard to make a call on which part is not working right. Cheers Matt

Nozila, Hrmm its a little more complicated then that. Once you pull a battery straight off the battery charger its going to read a high voltage - till the surface voltage disappears. Once this occurs you will be back down to 12.1 -12.5 odd volts. Whilst cranking the voltage should not go below 9 volts. Otherwise you can also fu(k your starter (low voltage combined with high current draw). Get a new battery - it does sound a little suspect. Cheers Matt

Spark plugs normally only cause a missfire. I would think that something has adjusted your timing a bit, I'm not a mechanic but that would be my educated guess. Cheers Sumo

Well, in my field (auto electrical) When you buy products from a supplier they work from a RRP at their shops so that we can sell the same product at the same price. I suppose its price fixing, but if they started to sell their products with the trade discount to the public well we would go out of business. Last thing the supplier wants is our company to go out of business as we spend $6-10K a month where as someone off the street may spend $200. Cheers Sumo

Nice post Cubes. Cold hard facts Cheers Sumo

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I suppose the whole legal thing scares most workshops from performing any kinds of tests they may deform a company. I know that I wouldn't risk my company for a few unpaid cat tests. Cheers Sumo

Mate can we see some results before and after this kit has been fitted? Cheers Sumo

Mate, let us know your long term goal for the car. No point going for overkill if your only chasing 250 odd kw. Cheers Sumo

Smoke and electrical wiring usually equals bad karma. Check for a drain too Nozila if you have seen smoke from the altenator. I doubt it was a diode going poof, but you never know. Its a posibility that the sensing wire has melted into one of the other wires, but without seeing it mate im really clutching at straws. There is that many posibilities. Cheers Matt

I had a maintenance free battery and it spat acid out into my boot. Now I have a servicable one and its been running fine. As GTSTcoupe said, if it cranks the car ok leave it, if you are going to run a heap of auxillery gear then you may have to upgrade. Cheers Sumo

For those positions I would guestimate Brake master and Powersteering resivour Cheers Sumo

I love my R33.

Nice car mate

Rob, when you say you tune an AFM on grams/s vs voltage what do you mean? I understand how hotwire/Karman Vortex/MAP sensors work, but how are you doing this? Cheers Matt P.S. You should know that the mesh holds up the airflow!!

Black32: Im not got to go through the loops of explaining the whole theory, but voltage drop is a big factor. Where is your Power FC earthed? where does it pick its power up from? How accurate is the voltage meter on it? The only way is to get an accurate reading is too pull the reading from the terminals on the battery. Otherwise your going through old earth cables, and when it has a starter motor load on it, your going to get an even worse reading. The lug either end of the cables both + and - have voltage drops under load. So I would bet my left nut that your battery is fine - its just how your PFC is setup. Cheers Sumo

Yep, on the drivers side of the motor facing backwards. I wouldn't say straight up that its the soleniod on the starter, there are many more things that can go wrong. I know to the untrained eye its going to be hard to see, but as you pulling it off - check the condition of the leads and the tension on the nuts off the soleniod. All the little things you take notice of helps draw a better picture of what may be going on. One thing before you get carried away pulling out your starter, do a load test on your battery - you may have a faulty cell that you will not notice until you load test. Grab your multimeter and whack it across the battery posts and get someone to start it, the voltage should not drop below 9.5 Volts, if it does there is a possibility you have a crook cell. If it doesn't then its good idea to check voltage drops - if you want me to explain further just ask Cheers Sumo

Hand shandies all round.

Im with dave, The altenator shouldn't have anything to do with your power steering getting heavy..... I mean the P/S pump is mechanical right? In the commodores they have a bypass valve that would sometimes get stuck open and the car would think your driving along the highway so it would keep the P/S heavy. Cheers Sumo

Im with Paul, More Boost = More Pontential for things to fark up in a bigger way. Cheers Sumo

Sambo, I would sort out the light issue mate as it is an integral put of the charging system. The light is their to put power into the rotor before the altenator starts charging and then can self sustain its way of charging. Have you got a test light? One easy way to check the light and its circuit its to pull the plastic plug off the back of the altenator (with the IGN turned to RUN (or 3)) Earth your test light and probe each pin in the plug If I remember correctly There should be 2 12V supplies and one dull supply, the dull is the light in your cabin - get someone to sit in your car whilst doing this to see if the dash light will come on - LED test light is no good for this method. Cheers Matt

You mean a spline? go to a datsun wreckers and get one of an old datto, thats what I did and it worked like a champion. Cheers Sumo

Its more likely the sender unit Cheers Sumo

That smell you can smell is what we call at work the "dollar smell", coz you know its going to cost alot of dollars to repair Sorry about me making a joke, if you handy with a spanner, pull your starter off and smell inside the nost cone, if you can smell the "dollar" smell go and get a second hand one Cheers Sumo