Mr 20Valve

One temperature variation I have noticed is the outside ambient temperature display in the dash... After the car's been driven & parked for a short time, the outside temperature shows high 30's or low 40's thanks to the temp sensor sitting directly above the oil cooler core. I'll get around to relocating it one day.

I'm halfway through fitting up the temp gauge, so I should have some info soon (finding time is the problem unfortunately)

Mine's the opposite! If its set to 18deg on aircon it blows cold, but on anything else, it blows hot (even set to 18.5deg)!

Don't ask questions that I'd rather not consider!!!

Duncbro to the rescue! :brofist:

Turned out it was a blown fuse in the kick panel which had shut the alternator down. Anyone got an English diagram of that fuse panel btw?

I might try removing it & brightening up the plug connectors on Saturday & see what happens. I'm just concerned its a computer problem of some description that won't ne resolved without burning the car to the ground...

Yeah, no result from disconnecting the battery... Reckon I'm up for a new instrument cluster?

Battery was replaced only about 2 months ago, so barring an alternator problem, it's probably not that. I'll disconnect it & cross my fingers that it fixes itself.

Driving home tonight, the tacho, speedo, odo & everything in my instrument cluster went limp & died in my M35 They're all still lit up like they're supposed to (with the exception of the backlit odo & gear selection indicator) - the gauges have all just stopped functioning. I've checked the fuses & can't see anything blown. Anyone got another suggestion?

The attessa relay is bolted to the radiator support, just underneath the airbox

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I saw your car parked on St George's Pde one day last week. Great looking kit on it.

That's why I asked - the bonnets shape around the headlight looks to be slightly different to the nm35 headlight itself

Could the bonnet be off a PM35?

Hence the reason I decided to make a post about it... I'd prefer no-one else makes a similar mistake.

Exactly the same spot above the intercooler next to the oil cooler. It hadn't been fitted in the pictures There's also a small power steering cooler wedged in just between the oil cooler & headlight now too.

hahahahah No.

there was definitely a taper in the yum-cha fittings, but from what i understand now is that the angle of the seats is different... near enough is close enough in China they say. the cheap fittings also felt cheap... they just seemed lighter & less dense than the Proflow ones. In fact I was afraid they'd crack as I was doing them up.

The core from Just Jap was $90 The new hoses & fittings from Pirtek were $210 So over $430 all up counting a sandwich plate that cost me $130

I've got an oil temp gauge ready to go on, but the gauge sender ports on the sandwich plate are in a spot that will make the senders interfere with the aircon lines, so I'm waiting on a couple of 45deg 1/8npt elbows that will angle them out of the way. So no, I can't tell what difference there is now that the oil cooler is on there, but once the gauges are in, I'm planning on bypassing the coolant from the factory sandwich plate & having the new oil cooler doing all the work. I'll report back once I've got results.

Yeah mate, still got them!

Well, being the genius that I am, I decided that the easiest & cheapest way to install an oil cooler to my car was to buy one off eBay... Please queue up in the line to the left in order to laugh at my expense. And I do mean expense. I bought an eBay oil cooler kit for $135 (posted) back in June with the plans of fitting it up & being awesome. The pics looked like this: : with the plan of routing an oil to air oil cooler core from a sandwich plate between the oil filter & oil to water oil-cooler sandwich plate thats already fitted to the block. Then I received the 'item' some 10 days later direct from Shenzen, China. w00t! This is what it looked like in the box when I opened it: As you can see, it's got a relocation kit... not really what I wanted, seeing as though theres a poofteenth of nothing when it comes to space for relocating your oil filter in the engine bay of an M35. So I complained that I didn't get what I ordered & was contacted various girls named 'Michelle' & 'Brandy' in Guangzou to address the fact that I hadn't received what was in the picture (being a simple sandwich plate with -10AN oulets & a place on the top to screw in a factory oil filter...) So they graciously sent me a replacement adapter to match what was in the photos. Some 16 days later, I received the correct adapter & got to work fiting everything up... Until I realised that the cooler core was about 300x300 in size & I couldn't get it to sit in an acceptable place inside my front bar where it would do any good... Luckily, Just Jap is 15 minutes from my house, so I trotted down to see them & picked up the smallest of their oil coolers, which measured about 90 x 250 & had the -10 nipples that I needed. 'Cool', I hear you say! Well, yes, everything was cool up until I fitted everything up to the car, with core in place above the intercooler & behind the grille. Then the leaks started... Every single one of the yum-cha AN fittings leaked. That and the braided hose was so soft, it kinked trying to go around a gentle radius bend. Luckily, I have a Pirtek dealer 5 minutes from my house, so I trotted up to see them & came away with two brand new braided hoses featuring -10 Proflow fittings. 'Finally', I hear you say! So, it turns out I ended up using absolutely nothing from the original package I was sent! So the install was fairly straightforward from then on, with a couple of brackets supporting the core, a 90deg fitting on the nipple closest to the centre of the radiator, running the hose behind the bar reo & a 45deg fitting on the other nipple, angling the hose down past the i/c piping. The hoses then wrapped around the washer bottle & back into the engine bay through the inner guard liner & met up with the sandwich plate. Good news: the Proflow fittings don't leak at all! w00t! Pics: Brackets Fittings & hoses And the finished product The moral of the story: Don't buy yum-cha oil cooler kits from eBay...

Still for sale. $10 postage to anywhere in Aus

Still for sale