When I was a child, my Dad was a little overprotective with me. Maybe not overprotective, but definitely overly cautious. Let me give you an example. On the 4th of July, when all the other kids my age were shooting Roman Candles at one another - I was the frowning dork holding a single sparkler... while wearing safety glasses.
Why am I telling you this story? Because today, I am that kid again. And the overprotective parent... that part is being played by my OEM clutch. I can drive around, but full torque just causes immediate slip. I am officially in the clutch market. Already got an HD CSC ready to go in. Being that I am back to my small garage, no tools, jack stands, and scarce time - I'll probably have to farm out the installation. Plus, installing a clutch is not nearly as fun as installing a turbo kit.
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Originally Posted by GrooveStyle
You can stop off at a big box auto parts store, and often they'll read the code for you for free if you want to know asap?
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Originally Posted by jwick
Yup
AutoZone will do it for sure.
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Good idea! I did get the car home and parked in the garage today and immediately fell into bed. Got a ton of things to do and the OBD2 reader gets in tomorrow so I'll probably end up using it anyway.
The car runs awesome. Pulls HARD. A little touch of throttle in 6th = 120mph before you know it. It's an absolute joy to drive. I probably stopped about 6 or 7 times over the whole drive to do visual inspections, etc and didn't have a single issue besides the SES light popping up right after a refuel. I did a whole tank cruising at about 78mph to get a good fuel economy test. I only boosted 3 times, but an accident put me in stop&go traffic for about an hour and a half.. still got 24mpg! For some reason the fuel computer reads 12. Not sure what is going on there, but I am not terribly concerned. My passenger for the entire trip was a big fire extinguisher, and I am happy to report it never got off it's lazy a$$.
The idle hunts a little bit here and there.. Johnny tells me the ECU will learn eventually and it should settle out.
One more bit of great news, I forgot to report! I found out on Saturday that my 2011 PW (orange plasti) was a total loss. You can imagine I was hoping for this when I went ahead and bought another Z.. I just forgot with all the 500+whp excitement. Guess how much they are giving me for it!? $21,698. $98 more than I paid for the 2013 which is 2 years newer and 20k miles younger (not including Tax, Tag, Title of course). Between the accident, the loss/repair of the PW, buying another Z, the installation with substandard instructions, the tune, and the 1000 mile journey with little testing there was a lot of room for things to go wrong for me and somehow I squeezed through no worse for wear. Johnny's actual words were "I would have told you you're retarded" when I explained the train of decisions I had made. Sometimes I guess it pays to be lucky! =)
Now.. What do I do with this big box of stock parts? The effort to go back to stock could likely never be worth it and I have no space to store this stuff. Not to mention, I am so in love with the car now I will never want to sell it anyway. Anyone know how I might get hold of a Nissan parts recycler or something where I can unload this stuff for a few bucks? Got stock exhaust (leftover from the PW), airboxes, cats, exhaust mani's, washer reservoir, etc.
Also, anyone TT have a solution to getting the washer pump back? Maybe with a smaller reservoir? I get going TT requires some sacrifice, but I wouldn't mind having this back.
Tomorrow I will go sign the papers on the PW. Insurance even told me I cold bring some tools and yoink off some of the aftermarket stuff I left in there... So I'll grab my homelink mirror, speakers, amp, escort mount/wiring. Probably swap the center console too since the one in the new car is a little scratched up.
Probably won't have time to start sorting through media until next week.