Well, we’re down again. While at work the car would not start. Thought it was the alternator. We borrowed my Dad’s truck and a tow dolly from a friend and got the car home Saturday night. We worked on replacing the alternator for 4 hours the next day! Finally got it all back together, tried to crank it and nothing. We have power to everything now, but it won’t crank.
The batteries positive lead started getting hot. So we think it is either a short or bad starter. More fun!
I can’t believe I did not post the trouble we had with the clutch recently. It had come to the point where it did not engage properly at all. Over a week or so we eventually replaced the clutch master cylinder and slave cylinder. It still makes a weird sound when it is cold but it works. We’re expecting to need to replace the clutch soon as well. Yet another fun job on the Project car.
Although the 240 hasn’t taken off like we would have hoped, we have a good bit of the cars issues corrected. I think we still have a overheating issue. We had to replace the battery this weekend and when we did it blew out the brake relay switch. We replaced it and all is well, for now.
Nissan released its much-anticipated GT-R sports car on Wednesday. The supercar has a 3.8-liter twin turbo V6 engine capable of up to 480 horsepower. It can go from zero to 60 mph in 3.5 seconds and has a maximum speed of about 193 mph.
For the GT-R, Nissan incorporated a new type of transaxle four-wheel drive system in which it placed the dual-clutch transmission and transfer case at the back of the car instead of up front. The design has enabled a better weight distribution throughout the car that will result in a better ride, according to Nissan.
The Nissan GT-R also has three different modes for its dual clutch six-speed transmission: normal, snow and “R,” a racing mode that allows the driver to shift quickly at high speeds. Priced at about 7.8 million yen ($68,000), the car is expected to be available in December 2007 in Japan and June 2009 in the U.S.
Credit: Nissan Motor
Although the car is being driven daily we have had to work on it a little. We just replaced the thermostat and hose this past weekend and are now looking into why the electric fan is not working. It seems to be overheating but there is no evidence we can see why.
May be the sensor going or gone. We’re going to flush the system and then run distilled water, flush again and then fill with the proper amount of distilled water and coolant.