MLCrisis

Hey, Kinks. thanks for that. Sorry my eply took a while - been involved in rugby stuff last few days. Cheers.

Hi Guys, Having had two months of Skyline ownership, I am still feeling my way with a few things. T'other night I did my first attempt at something approaching a power take off. Wound it up to about 3000, clutch up to the bite point, held it a second and then ease on up. Problem was that it slipped like buggery. At 6000, and not going very far or fast, I put it in second and she took off like nobodies business. No other signs of slipping. Next couple of days a slight smell of cooked clutch, but that has cleared now. All I am doing now is getting her rolling and then, with clutch fully out, she'll take as much loud pedal as I care to give her - no slipping. My own attempt at assessment of this is that at 53000 km, the clutch could be in the last period of its life. So I am happy enough to wait until it starts slipping in normal driving (sort of .....). Or should I expect this to happen with the stock clutch? (The car is mostly stock.) But my question to those that know more than me is whether I need to get the clutch plate or flywheel inspected, having cooked things slightly? Have I left a horrible slippy sheen of cooked clutch on one face or the other? (And I suppose if I was paying for an inspection, would it be worth forking out for a new clutch - I saw the recent WA thread on clutches). Or can I blithely carry on in happy ignorance? Wodja fink? Cheers.

Now that's the best laugh I've had on this forum! Good one!

I did kinda wonder ....... Sounds like its worth a go if the engine is running a bit out of sorts (which it isn't), so it is unlikely to do much in my current circumstances. Worth doing occasionally, perhaps. The next step is definitely going to have to be an Apexi RMS or an s-afc, or similar - just have to decide what I need the most, benefits-wise. Thanks for the thoughts, guys.

Hi. I have read the thread on fuel consumption and all sorts of stuff on s-afc's and Apexi RMS's and the like, but I understand from a link on the Skylines Downunder site that you can re-set the factory ECU and it will re-calibrate itself, thus adjusting to any changes in intake and exhaust that you may have made. To re-set the ECU, it is claimed that you just disconnect the battery, press the brake pedal hard once (whilst facing North on a Wednesday, no doubt!! Did the guy who designed this write games in his spare time?!!*?) and then just hook up the battery again. Start the car and it goes through a whole diagnostic routine, which should adjust mixture and timing advancement for the current arrangement. It will supposedly do all this to achieve again whatever the factory settings are, unless someone is pulling my plonker. Has anyone had any experience of doing this? Some guys in UnZud seem to think its the Bee Knees and claim to do this regularly to keep everything up to scratch. My reason for asking is that I have just added the pod filter, cat-back exhaust and BOV and, whilst enjoying the Darth Vader-with-a-cold-noises, I am currently using most of Iraq's future petroleum exports single handed. Cheers. P.S. By my standards, this is a short message!!