Exhaust Temp Light

[paulr33]

if the sensor is not plugged in, then it wont flash.

it sounds like are getting mixed up.

are you seeing an orange flash or red one ?

turn your car to ACC, take of all the lights lit up, then post on here and circle which one you see flashing and coming on.

only the engine check light should flash

lastly you can check all yours sensors under ETC, SENSOR SW CHECK and look for any black highlighted sensors, these are ones that are not working

[FORZA-MOTORSPORT]

Ok ill do this now...

[FORZA-MOTORSPORT]

Some pics of now the cat light is below the 4wd light it goes red and the other one that flashes is on the right on the 4wd light above the open door one.

pics attached

[FORZA-MOTORSPORT]

A better pic

YELLOW BOX = 4WD LIGHT RED

BLUE BOX = CAT TEMP LIGHT FLASHES RED

GREEN BOX = ENGINE CHECK LIGHT FLASHES RED

PURPLE BOX = DOOR OPEN LIGHT RED

Orignially the GREEN BOX engine check light was coming on as AFM was maxing out. Now BLUE BOX cat temp light is flashing instead.

[Cubes]

Check the exh. temp sensor is ground properly.

Erm... are you sure you haven't got a tad mixed up which light flashes on the r32???

I have just checked mine and its always the cat temp light that flashes due to detonation or afm maxing out.

The light you state to be the green box (top right) on mine is actually a seat belt light that flashes on and off when you first turn the ignition on.

I don't actually appear to have a check engine light.

I'll take a pic in a few minutes and throw it up, maybe its moved around a tad on the rwd pos version.

My light that flashes is most definitely the bottom left light through. Which does appear to be the cat light.

My lights are layed out as followed..

Top left, NFI

Top right, seat belt warning

Bottom left, cat temp

Bottom right, door open warning

Not too sure where my check engine light is... I've never seen it come on.

[FORZA-MOTORSPORT]

Check the exh. temp sensor is ground properly.

Erm... are you sure you haven't got a tad mixed up which light flashes on the r32???

I have just checked mine and its always the cat temp light that flashes due to detonation or afm maxing out.

The light you state to be the green box on mine is actually a seat belt light that flashes on and off when you first turn the ignition on.

I don't actually appear to have a check engine light.

I'll take a pic in a few minutes and throw it up.

Ok im not too sure joel what are you up to wanna come for a cruse and ill show you

[Cubes]

I'm keen to check it out

The mobile isn't working as it was dunked in coffee, the home phone.. Best not to ring.. so just pop around if your down this way.

[Topaz]

Ok I believe it is a knock warning. I think you have some kind of knock warning level set in the PFC. You can change it with the datalogit software but it shouldn't display that exhaust temp light until knock of about 50 or 60.

I have a PFC and this exhaust temp light cam on on my GTR a short while ago. I have my knock sensor display constantly on the Commander and when the car is upto temp the knock is always lower than 30 (sometimes lower than 20). If my exhaust temp light is on because of the knock, I would assume its becuase on start up, my car hits 80-84 knock. This has happened since my Power FC install (presumably since I bought the car) and the temp light hasn't displayed on the dash until now.......

confused?

[T04GTR]

LOL i have a de-cat!

lol

[T04GTR]

from the sound of it theres some sort of fault code. or your kknock reading thing is set to low.

power fc. f**k nos :

[paulr33]

it sounds like the r32 engine and exhaust lights differ slightly from the r33

the rx7 is like this, some of them use the exhaust temp light instead of engine check light

[Cubes]

Yer the R32 uses the exhaust. light.

[GTR1993]

my cat light on my r32 gtr is just permenantly on no matter if the car iss tone cold, not that it matters as i have no cat, anyone explaine this?

edit

dont worry i fixed it, it seems that the boost control option was on in the power fc, when i turn it off the light goes away, so it seems r32 does use cat light as warning light for the fc.

Edited July 23, 2006 by GTR1993

[FORZA-MOTORSPORT]

Well i think i have it sorted now, the cat light is used as a warning light by the power fc on the r32's for injector max, afm max, and knock, obviously since i had the hand controller hooked up i could see it wasnt knock and the injectors where going to 100% duty so its either afm or injectors. I kind of got the lights mixed up as the cat light was flashing and i wasnt looking at it as i was concetrating on the road more then anything . So problem sorted thanks for the help guys!

Also dont use that 95 octane fuel it is just crap and can do some serious damage if your car is tunned for 98...

[Cubes]

Well i think i have it sorted now, the cat light is used as a warning light by the power fc on the r32's for injector max, afm max, and knock, obviously since i had the hand controller hooked up i could see it wasnt knock and the injectors where going to 100% duty so its either afm or injectors. I kind of got the lights mixed up as the cat light was flashing and i wasnt looking at it as i was concetrating on the road more then anything . So problem sorted thanks for the help guys!

Also dont use that 95 octane fuel it is just crap and can do some serious damage if your car is tunned for 98...

And isn't it rather interesting how your injectors are 100% and your afm reads 5.115 volts yet only making 187rwkw or whatever it was.

Then you wonder why it completely reels past 210rwkw+ rb's.

Shauns dyno reads slightly lower.

[paulr33]

thanks for clearing it up

so rx7 and r32 use exhaust cat temp light as their "engine check light" flash method. also for those interested ive added how to use low octane fuel with the powerfc if you get in a situation where you have to put in penis fuel, it tells you how