S2 Front Torque Gauge Not Working

[Bronx]

as said, my front torque gauge is not working at all. anyone know why???

fuses? wires etc???

cheers

Jean

[wolverine]

find some gravel and light it up.

10c says the gauge is working.

[lachlanw]

do a search

failing that dump the clutch harder

or on some grass/gravel dependingn on how wussy you are

will remove wussy statement if gauge really is not working

[Bronx]

well, went bush bashing with my car the other weekend, and just gravel road and wet stuff everywhere, i did a bit of powersliding and hard accelerating, but got nothing. just dead mind you it goes to 50kg/m that is close to 500nm from memory. thats alot of front tourque. but still, all in all, i got nothing.

[wolverine]

hmm, then you should at least take the guages out and check the plug on the rear of the unit.

There is a sticky thread on how to get at the stereo which is pretty much the same thing you need to do.

I must owe you 10c now. Usually these threads have happy endings when they are given some stick in the wet or on gravel.

[Bronx]

dammit, lol, i forgot to say ive done that already, all plugs are set etc. i checked them when i replaced my stereo. and at the same time my climate control lights stopped working, so 2 things in my car aint working, climate control lights and my gauge.

anyone know where the sensor is???

or do the r33/4 have the same gauge? my guess it would be for rear tho.

[reiseva]

I would change the globes of the climate control. you will probably find that the gauge will start working. I've had it where my rear lights and dash lights were not working. replaced everything but nothing changed. Noticed that one of the globes on my gauge cluster was a little dimmer then the rest. replaced it and tah dah, all came good. very annoying.

[lachlanw]

oh . dam it o cant remove it . um random . do you know it your car is engaging 4wd ? like fangin it on gravel or get someone to look while you give it a launch . my gauge works everytime i expect it to . about 10% when drivin up a hill and up to 50 doih skids on wet grass. it your car a 1999-2000 series 2 factory manual fr four s or a 260rs ?

none of the others have the gauge and a gtr gauge cluster wont work

does yours have front torque volts and boost from left to right

or something with oil temp init?

[matty_M35]

I just bought an m35 and mine does seem to be faulty aswell. I works when I punched it up a steep hill in the wet the other night. But unlike other cars I test drove I they would go up a little with some foot planting. Mine just sits on zero all the time..

Is this normal??

I will check the connections and get back to u guys as my boost guage isn't working all the time either..

[Bronx]

ok, finally got it working, took the rear out and re-inserted and cleaned out the connectors, now it will jump a little bit on uphills, and it will reach about 20kg-m when i rev at about 4k-rpm and just release the clutch, but it does have a kind of lag effect, i finished accelerating and just let go, the needle still jumps a bit but then slows down. haha. but i guess being a rwd based system with a front added to it, i dont see much transfer going to the front to begin with.

mine is a factory stock standard 2001 rs4 manual, so S or V, i forgot. gauges go from torque- volt- boost.

is facotry boost only 7psi at max???

mine reaches that, but when it gets to it then just cuts out.

[lachlanw]

i hope your not assuming the factory gauge is in psi ??

7 on that gauge is about 14 psi which is also boost cut level

it is full rear wheel drive untill you break the rears loose . or cornering and shit

[Bronx]

ah, i see. 14psi. i had a feeling that that was the case. pretty neat. just a quick question, what are the neo engines power specs? 206kw at the flywheel and how much at the wheels???

[istdercollen]

around 180.. maybe less. I'm just going with a rough 15% drivetrain loss. But guaranteed the drivetrain isn't MORE efficient than that.

[wolverine]

The loss is about 60kw in manual cars.

[Bronx]

DAMN!!!! thats alot of loss, 60kw. wow. wait, there were automatic 4wd stags??

[wolverine]

Stock RB25DET based cars usually make 125rwkw (+/- 5kw) in stock form at the wheels vs 189kw factory output allowing some loss for age.

Stock RB25DET neo make around 140rwkw with the same things in play.

On a dyno there should be almost no drive to the front wheels with ATESSA unless there is wheelspin so the figures are almost always the same but if you want to allow for some front wheel losses then take away about 10kw.

Using percentage loss can be a slippery slope but is used by some motor engineers, in practice losses are not static but close enough for most of us in streetable cars.

[lachlanw]

^^lol if you put it on a dyno and the rears spin and not the fronts the attesa will try and correct this........

[wolverine]

^^huh?

pretty sure that is what i said.

[bubba]

DAMN!!!! thats alot of loss, 60kw. wow. wait, there were automatic 4wd stags??

Certainly was, I have one!