Interesting Indication On My Turbo Timer

[TUF250]

Hi,

my r33 gts-t came with a turbo timer when I bought it. I was told its an apexi. It is a silver thing, blue light in the screen and 4 buttons, two on each side of the screen.

the timer has three modes that I can work out.

1st - override, press the button and the car shuts off immediately

2nd - manual timer (I have set it to 1min and it counts down from there)

3rd - (which I havn't used) is the automatic mode, the car has a temp sensor in the top radiator hose and it runs until it is at a predetermined temp and shuts off.

The car is always in the manual timer mode (except for a couple of times when I have shut it off with the override when necessary.

Now this fault ahs happened twice, interestingly both were after giving it a bit of a run (not a thrash at all but having wound a gear or two out within the last 5 or so minutes)

the key is turned to off and instead of the turbo timer counting down it beeps loudly, the engine shuts off and the timer screen say 'PEFrr'

any ideas or experiences?

[paulr33]

no idea, sounds faulty

do you have the 02 sensor and handbrake wire hooked up?

maybe its one of those causing it to go spazzo - check them (ie loose, short circuit etc)

[TUF250]

interesting point about the handbrake, I cant remember if it was on or not. on the way home from work ill leave it down and try it again. I didnt wire it unfortunately, came with it when i bought it

[paulr33]

to check if its wired in

leave the car running in neutral

put on handbrake

turn the key off

let the timer start to count down

drop the handbrake during count down

if its wired in the engine should shut off

[TUF250]

good call, i will try it tonight. thanks mate

[TUF250]

it was the handbrake, thanks for the tip mate!