What Is The "ficd" Relay For?

[CruiseLiner]

hey guys i been stuffin round with my stagea wiring today and i got the translated fuse box lid for the fuses under the dash and i think who ever made it has it all wrong, though i cant be sure. where it says the 4wd fuse is, i have no terminals in that spot at all and the 4wd one is at the top and by itself. and some wires in the engine bay box dont match colours of ones in the interior fuse box. so somethings not right...

anyone care to check the translations with someone who can speak abit of japanese???

also whats the relay in the engine bay fuse box that says "FICD" for????

has anyone buggered around with the stagea ecu wiring and stuff or am i the only one???

one big nightmare hehe.

cheers

Brad

[3intheBack]

Please explain...better still show us some pictures.

I have an S2 so I dont know if it is the same layout. Either way I cant see any relay or fuse with FICD on it.

On monday noight I have a sparky wiring up my DFA & IEBC. Last time I pulled the ECU cover off it I got a fright and put it back on.

[CruiseLiner]

hey mate its in the engine bay fuse box, its between the sunroof relay and the headlamp relays. i highlighted the FICD relay with a red arrow. maybe it stands for " fuel injection control device" or something as i know the gtr's have something similiar but with a different name.

also whats the motor fan??? the fan in front of the air con radiator unit??? whats engine control as well??

Edited May 13, 2006 by CruiseLiner

[3intheBack]

As I suspected they are not the same layout - I do have all the same fuses and relays though - just set out in a different order.

My S2 does not have FICD. But then it is RWD, so I dont know if that is part of it.

Also, I have one 15A Deicer. what is it ???

Spose you could pull the plug and see what stops working!

[chook]

the deicer could be the heater under the front wipers on the front windscreen, or the heaters in the wing mirrors.

Edited May 13, 2006 by chook

[chook]

pretty sure the FCID is something to do with the idle speed motor ???

[Terminal]

if i could find my owners manual i'm sure it would tell you what it means... but mine has vanished...

[Ska]

I have the original japanese owners manual, but cant read a bit of japanese

Also I am having a brain fart atm and cant remember where the interior fuse box is.......

EDIT: Tangles to the rescue, after being slapped around with a cold, wet trout, it is behind the coin box above the right knee. Apparently if you pull it hard enough it comes........

Brad, do you want me to post up the excel translation I had done for the interior fuse box?

[CruiseLiner]

I have the original japanese owners manual, but cant read a bit of japanese

Also I am having a brain fart atm and cant remember where the interior fuse box is.......

EDIT: Tangles to the rescue, after being slapped around with a cold, wet trout, it is behind the coin box above the right knee. Apparently if you pull it hard enough it comes........

Brad, do you want me to post up the excel translation I had done for the interior fuse box?

hey cyrus im pretty sure the fuse box diagram for in the car i have and they all seem wrong too me, like the wire colours are totally different in the engine bay fuse box to what it says for in the car.

was the translation done by someone who knows japanese or they just guessing??

post it up and ill see if its the same one. i need this workshop manual dammit and work from that for some idea on whats what.

thanks everyone for helping too.

Brad

[Ska]

It's at home and can access it from new work, so when I get home I'll post it up, or if anyone else has it handy and can post....?

[CruiseLiner]

It's at home and can access it from new work, so when I get home I'll post it up, or if anyone else has it handy and can post....?

thats the one, but the wires on the back of the fuses for rear tailights or whatever (as an example) actually relate to the colours of the air con relay in the engine bay fusebox. so i dont know whats wrong, but i aint trusting that diagram one bit at the moment, dont wanna cook a brand new $1600 pfc now

Edited May 15, 2006 by CruiseLiner

[Ska]

Yeah that is it, and the person I had translate it could read, speak and write japanese pretty fluently.

BUT still I would wait for the workshop manual before doing anything, dont want to cook anything!

[CruiseLiner]

also that fusebox label is missing the 4wd fuse thats above the dash, fuel pump fuses and running parralel to the rest of the fuses. so i dont know if the other 4wd fuse is actually 4wd or not???

also while im at it, whats the "de-icer" (not demister as its got that already on another fuse)???

who reckons if i started ripping all the auto wiring out it wouldnt run properly and things stop workin???

more wiring in that damn car than a 747 plane.

[CruiseLiner]

no worries, i just dont like taking things for granted until im 100% positive after a similiar problem a while ago with my autronics cdi wiring which cost me 2 dyno trips and hours of stuffing around.

thanks anyway mate ill let u guys know if they are correct or not soon enough

[Ska]

Yeah I will be checking out my cig lighter fuse, as it is dead, and if it is dead and in that position, well at least that will confirm the cig lighter fuse spot Now that I have that pic, I'll go out and check at lunch

[Tangles]

My mate translated that........

I trust him 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%

Hes more fluent in Japanese than a Japanese hooker

I have the updated version which my mate did, see attached:

Edited May 15, 2006 by Tangles

[Ska]

Well either way the fuse for my cig lgither had blown and I replaced it and hey presto my boost guage which I hooked up to the cig lighter wiring now works, so confirmed the cig lighter is in the right spot

[CruiseLiner]

awesome cheers guys i just wanted assurance that they are correct just looking and that "rear wiper" one on the top vertical section is 4wd as it even says soo in english on the japanese diagram and the colours match 4wd relays so i think thats not right.

ill send ya the bill if it aint

jk

thanks

Brad

Edited May 15, 2006 by CruiseLiner

[Ska]

awesome cheers guys i just wanted assurance that they are correct

ill send ya the bill if it aint

jk

thanks

Brad

Well all I did was confirm the cig lighter was right, so if you plug your pfc into that you will get power, other then that, I dunno if all the others are correct or not

I hear the dipping your pfc into a bucket of hot water makes it go faster too

[Tangles]

awesome cheers guys i just wanted assurance that they are correct just looking and that "rear wiper" one on the top vertical section is 4wd as it even says soo in english on the japanese diagram and the colours match 4wd relays so i think thats not right.

ill send ya the bill if it aint

jk

thanks

Brad

Well at the time we translated that (we being SAU Stagea royal-we) I passed on the transalated and original versions to my mate, and he made a few subtle corrections but said thats about right. He was at work at the time so I guess he only put a couple of minutes into it, but then again thats all hed need.

Now, I trust him as he knows his japanese very well indeed, and sure you can bill me but Id pass the bill onto him, and as of last Thursday he's currently in Thailand at the moment (had the monthly full moon party on Saturday so hes probably fked up right now still) but anyways hed pay the bill when he gets back to Australia around about this time next year. lol Plus he's on 30day terms from end of month, so youd be looking at getting the money back around July next year.

Hope that helps.

Note: remeber that your car is a bit of an odity tho, being a 2.7ltr and all that