andy65b

Yes, Xanavi site is gone and I no longer do the conversions at all. There is a company in Sydney doing the language conversions at about 2 times the price I charged. They have not made any effort to promote them selves so I am not going to do it for them.

Wheel bearings failing at 93'000km's...... That is not a good sign for the accuracy of the km's the car has travelled. My 03 ARX had 169'000km on mine when sold and had no problems with wheel bearings.

How the extra vents working? Any pics of them installed?

Looking Good Mark... now I believe there is a Roll bar.. lol I love the idea of and Hard Top and keep watching them for sale but I love the convertivble aspect of the car (plus it is the only way to keep the heat down). I just fitted QFM A1RM pads with DBA T2 4000 rotors. I am a happy boy so far. Also just ordered new tyres, Federal 595RSR to fit on the stock 15 inch wheels.

Nice work..

Looks good. I have moved the same way from the Stagea to my weekend MX5. Have a look at the MX5 Plus rollbars. Not sure they are CAMs approved but a great design and easy to fit plus they are better for the over 6 footers that drive MX5's. I think my mod list is very similar but the budget... where did that budget go..

Spotted a blue NM35 heading back from Jindabyne on Sunday afternoon. shitty traffic and the Stagea made easy work of getting through it.

I wish more Australian cars had this feature as it scars the crap out of me when you are behind a timid (read bad) driver and they nudge out but dont go, then reverse back and leave the car in reverse. I sit there praying they will realise before they go for a gap.

The HICAS in the Stagea is only active over 40kmh. When active it only moves about 1.5 degrees steering in the direction of the steering. It really only helps reduce bdoy roll by reducing the arc of a turn at speed.. a little bit towards crabing.

Jetwreck lives again...,

Spotted PN-Mad's Stagea this afternoon at west Ryde station.. those wheels are a dead give away.

And you call your hybrid of a car a Stagea.... I suspect that is more to do with other aftermarket electronic godies you have installed.

That seems very large. I did mine with 3mm (think that is what is was, was more like find drill bit to drill after 10 hours under the car changing turbo). I agree with scott, 2.5mm max.

Well done.. I would clarify that that the 30% throttle restriction is not solely related to the brake signal. The primary limiting of the throttle (30% max) relates to being in first gear and under 2600rpm. The brake mod removes an additional delay to throttle response. Cheers Andy

If you need a stock one let me know Rudi as I have one.

That is better than a wheel bearing.

As if that could ever be made....... lol

9psi is the boost I used to get when my boost solenoid would stick open. Sounds like the wastgate is fully opening.

It is a TV override, alows the TV to stay on when you drive.

Both so rude,...... Can only tell you on my car performance was off once the cel was on. Perhaps my mods made the change more noticable. Scott, your car is such a hybrid nothing makes sense anymore..

Usuall the Km's it was changed at.

best bet, talk to Jetwreck as he has sorted through these problems for someone at least once before. mmm.. Nagoya... Have you changed your aircon filter (in the passenger footwell behind glove box) I pulled one out for someone and it was marked that it was changed 2 years prior at 70k. Only thing was the car was purchased in Oz with 42k 2 years prior.... the plot thickened.

If the cel comes on it cuts boost and fuel, so be aware if runnig and EBC or manual bleed valve.

Can you give us a little more info? What model and year? When did you get the car? As I am assuming you are talking about a series 1 NM35 (2001-2004), that does sound like really low Km's. I bought my car in 2008 which was a 2003/3 model ARX with 43k on the clock. At the same time Jetwreck bought a 2002 model ARX with 70k on the clock. I do suspect your KM's are not right. Beside that, why did they service the transmission at 45k? The transmission does not require an oil change till 100k. THen you need to use the right oil. use the wrong oil and your transmission will stuff up. So I would be thinking 1) you possibly have the wrong oil in the gearbox 2) the transmission has done many more km's than you think and may just be getting old.

It is a brilliant upgrade and recomended. Shifts are faster and still smooth. I would disagree with Leon about the downshifts. I thought it was a good improvement to downshifts but they can be slower than desired. I found if you use a little throttle on the downshift the gearbox was more willing to change faster. You can get the very odd shift that is a little firm but my wife did not even pick the difference. I also got an improvment in fuel economy.