cisco
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Well happy easter, today was pretty cool.
Well tomorrow bluey goes off to have the ACT rego inspection and get some number plates. Yeehah!
I put some factory nissan headlights on blue monster, just in case the crystal ones fail because of their "dodgy" alignment and they make me come back in another booking 1-2 days later. That happened last time, I want to pass straight away and never go back there. So it was worth the hassle of predicting that I would need to change the headlights..
Also stuffed around a bit more with the stereo installation. It seems I have blown the "mute circuit" in my brand new head unit. So the head unit clicks loudly when changing the volume knob between ZERO and anything ABOVE ZERO. Also happens when pressing various buttons on the head unit, anywhere where the unit needs to switch or transition the power supply. Apparently this can be caused by unplugging RCA leads while the head unit is turned on. I probably did do that, but weird anyway, I couldn't see how that would blow a fuse. But anyway..
The system is still buzzing with engine noise. I have no idea why. I've tried checking all the earths and grounding everything in different places etc. Just seems that something is picking up engine buzz badly. Weird! But I'm going to a car audio shop and getting them to fix both the engine buzz and the blown mute circuit fuse in the head unit. Just running front splits for now, haven't decided what the rear setup will be yet. I have an entire cleared out parcel tray area to use though. I was going to just install 6x9s and run them off the same shared 4 channel amp that powers the front splits. But could possibly be convinved to ditch the 6x9s and just run a small punchy 10" sub somewhere providing the box and overall weight could be kept to a minimum and be well secured. I reckon Two heavy 6x9s and their associated MDF enclosures would be similar in weight to a single 10" sub and a single enclosure. And the audio gurus always recommend just running front stage and a sub in the rear, rather than rear speakers. Because if you don't have any rear passengers, you don't get much benefit from the rear stage, although the 6x9s would also add a bit of decent bass more than the splits can offer.
Hmm apart from that. Going to order/grab an O-ring tomorrow from Nissan for the tiny cooling system leak I have. Then will also get a new bottle of coolant and change the coolant again so that is all spot on.
Once we're registered, its straight off to the muffler shop on Wednesday for a new rear muffler and decent 2.5" diameter black dump pipe, still hidden behind the modified rear bumper.
I have approximately 3 weeks off until I start a new job, so intending to get EVERYTHING sorted in that timeslot. The other thing that I am keen to do is drop off the gearbox once again and straighten the fingers on the pressure plate back out. A while back I did a very poor gear change with the short shifter and missed a gear completely, but it kind of half went in and I sent a fair bit of power through the flywheel and the clutch absorbed it. This over-heated the fingers on the pressure plate, and now my clutch pedal vibrates badly as the bent fingers with varying heights click over the release bearing as everything rotates. heheh.
Should be a piece of cake to fix. Just drop the box, then grab some pliers and bend the offending fingers back into place. And just be careful with stupid launches and gear changes in the future. SMOOOTH is the go. Well factory shifter is back in place now, so all is well in that department. Errol has suggested a couple of times that for running this much power, perhaps the JUN flywheel is not thick enough, and thus allows too much heat to go straight through it to the pressure plate. Makes perfect sense, but I also wonder, with this much power, would the factory flywheel do the same anyway.. I'm not sure.. Big performance and drivability improvement from the JUN, so I'm loving it. But I noticed the NISMO lightweight flywheel for the k11 is more like 5.5Kg. Perhaps they have made it a bit heavier to combat this exact problem of the flywheel being too thin in a high powered micra.
That's about it.
As soon as I get home with a set of number plates tomorrow, I'll be lowering the suspension back down by about 50mm so it sits at a very nice height where it used to be.
Well tomorrow bluey goes off to have the ACT rego inspection and get some number plates. Yeehah!
I put some factory nissan headlights on blue monster, just in case the crystal ones fail because of their "dodgy" alignment and they make me come back in another booking 1-2 days later. That happened last time, I want to pass straight away and never go back there. So it was worth the hassle of predicting that I would need to change the headlights..
Also stuffed around a bit more with the stereo installation. It seems I have blown the "mute circuit" in my brand new head unit. So the head unit clicks loudly when changing the volume knob between ZERO and anything ABOVE ZERO. Also happens when pressing various buttons on the head unit, anywhere where the unit needs to switch or transition the power supply. Apparently this can be caused by unplugging RCA leads while the head unit is turned on. I probably did do that, but weird anyway, I couldn't see how that would blow a fuse. But anyway..
The system is still buzzing with engine noise. I have no idea why. I've tried checking all the earths and grounding everything in different places etc. Just seems that something is picking up engine buzz badly. Weird! But I'm going to a car audio shop and getting them to fix both the engine buzz and the blown mute circuit fuse in the head unit. Just running front splits for now, haven't decided what the rear setup will be yet. I have an entire cleared out parcel tray area to use though. I was going to just install 6x9s and run them off the same shared 4 channel amp that powers the front splits. But could possibly be convinved to ditch the 6x9s and just run a small punchy 10" sub somewhere providing the box and overall weight could be kept to a minimum and be well secured. I reckon Two heavy 6x9s and their associated MDF enclosures would be similar in weight to a single 10" sub and a single enclosure. And the audio gurus always recommend just running front stage and a sub in the rear, rather than rear speakers. Because if you don't have any rear passengers, you don't get much benefit from the rear stage, although the 6x9s would also add a bit of decent bass more than the splits can offer.
Hmm apart from that. Going to order/grab an O-ring tomorrow from Nissan for the tiny cooling system leak I have. Then will also get a new bottle of coolant and change the coolant again so that is all spot on.
Once we're registered, its straight off to the muffler shop on Wednesday for a new rear muffler and decent 2.5" diameter black dump pipe, still hidden behind the modified rear bumper.
I have approximately 3 weeks off until I start a new job, so intending to get EVERYTHING sorted in that timeslot. The other thing that I am keen to do is drop off the gearbox once again and straighten the fingers on the pressure plate back out. A while back I did a very poor gear change with the short shifter and missed a gear completely, but it kind of half went in and I sent a fair bit of power through the flywheel and the clutch absorbed it. This over-heated the fingers on the pressure plate, and now my clutch pedal vibrates badly as the bent fingers with varying heights click over the release bearing as everything rotates. heheh.
Should be a piece of cake to fix. Just drop the box, then grab some pliers and bend the offending fingers back into place. And just be careful with stupid launches and gear changes in the future. SMOOOTH is the go. Well factory shifter is back in place now, so all is well in that department. Errol has suggested a couple of times that for running this much power, perhaps the JUN flywheel is not thick enough, and thus allows too much heat to go straight through it to the pressure plate. Makes perfect sense, but I also wonder, with this much power, would the factory flywheel do the same anyway.. I'm not sure.. Big performance and drivability improvement from the JUN, so I'm loving it. But I noticed the NISMO lightweight flywheel for the k11 is more like 5.5Kg. Perhaps they have made it a bit heavier to combat this exact problem of the flywheel being too thin in a high powered micra.
That's about it.
As soon as I get home with a set of number plates tomorrow, I'll be lowering the suspension back down by about 50mm so it sits at a very nice height where it used to be.
