Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 92
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Sound awsome people

where are these shows??

just over 1 week to go so i think we need to get the map going

just a though a mate was saying that i may be a good idea to round up some CB's for easy comunication if going to an unkown place...Fully F&F bro :verymad:

so if we can get locations of the VW show that would be sweet

After a quick search it seems that the VW show n Shine will be at Cranbourne racecourse Map Ref 133 J6. Correct me if I’m wrong Fuzz

This may be good for the guy’s down East and South East but not sure if it will suit the others….

Throwing a spanner in the works an Idea could be that we Meet @ Cranbourne for the VW show then head up the mountain (Dandenong Mountain) towards the SAU show and shine and maybe a short cruise from there to Geelong or further……

This would most probably be a massive drive and a completely stupid idea. Though it may be good because then no one misses out on what they wanted???

Please shoot me down if you think it sux

Sounds ok to me, but I am starting off from (way) down south west so I'll be coming back this way anyhow... I'd be interested in checking out the shows for sure, so am happy with that option, would be pretty funny tunning up in a group of Stageas anyway, not usually seen in packs...

Cheers

Luke

MEMBER INTERESTS SO FAR:

1. AlexCim

2. munchdesign

3. Flysly

4. wagon

5. MRNISN

6. Tracey (non member)

7. MattD

8. FUZZY

9. ME

-----------------------------------------

UPDATE

Actual Date: Sunday 26 November 2006

Proposed details so far:

1st

Meet - Meet Central early (Point Cook, Westgate KFC etc)

Geelong - Meet Luke

GOR cruise - to Lorne

Chat - Photo’s an Lunch

Cruise - Local boy Muchdesign (Luke) to lead us into the wild

home - Petrol Fist then home

2nd

Meet - Meet Central early (Princes HWY Clayton Next to Mexican cantina/ park)

Cruise - Princess Hwy to S/E Victoria

VW Show n Shine -Cranbourne racecourse Map Ref 133 J6

Cruise -Dandenong Mountains

Rest -Photo’s, Lunch depending on time spent at show

Cruise -Dandenong Mountains to SAU Show N Shine

SAU Show n Shine -Birrarung Mar, Melbourne Map 2F J6 (alternate 1B S12, alternate 43 K9)

Lunch/Chat/Show off beasts - Relax check out the cars maybe lunch no.2

Possible Cruise -To Geelong or further for some beachside photo’s

Cruise - Petrol and Home

Yes, No, Maybe????????

wouldnt mind doing a map this week so that we can all checkout exactly KM's and rough times

cheers

Ian

But Stasis if your in another country then how come i saw your car at autosalon yesterday

you suyre you saw the agon in autosalon?!! :no: Somebody must have car jacked my car from the shed!!! HMMM!!! my younger bro!!

you suyre you saw the agon in autosalon?!! :no: Somebody must have car jacked my car from the shed!!! HMMM!!! my younger bro!!

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL !!!!

man thats funny.

Hey Yudi - what did you have? Boy or girl? one, two or three of em ? :P

good luck with the cruise, all. hope its good weather and the boys in blue leave you be.

PS - hey Humble, got the highflow from Aaron (slide) today, fantastic! going onto the car on Monday.

seriously at this stage and looking at how hungover l'm going to be ... l reckon the SAU xmas bbq would be the go, then l guess we could always go on a short cruise after it around the bay or something for those interested indriving.

I'd be happy to sit around eating hamburgers & snags talking cars myself!! :no:

Far call Cim and I am working thank you…. Multi tasking mate

Could juts cut out the final cruise after the Show…..?

-From Clayton to Cranbourne it’s about 25 KM so 30 minutes

-From Cranbourne to Mt Dandenong is roughly 38 KM which works out to approx 40 minutes

-From Mt Dandenong to Batman Ave Melbourne it’s approximately 45 KM so round 47 minutes. This is taking the Eastern freeway.

All up it would be say 2 hours worth of driving and approx 120km worth of actual cruise, obviously more for the guys coming from GOR for example. And couple of hours at each show? In total it would be about the same as going one way to Apollo bay which is 239km form Noble Park.

We could miss Dandy Mountains and go straight from Cranbourne show to SAU show…via scenic ghetto route…it would be good to take the cars through the twisties though and get some scenery pics

PS - hey Humble, got the highflow from Aaron (slide) today, fantastic! going onto the car on Monday.

i saw your post mate nice one.

be sure to let me know how it goes as i'll probably be taking the route we spoke about previously.

Far call Cim and I am working thank you…. Multi tasking mate

Could juts cut out the final cruise after the Show…..?

-From Clayton to Cranbourne it’s about 25 KM so 30 minutes

-From Cranbourne to Mt Dandenong is roughly 38 KM which works out to approx 40 minutes

-From Mt Dandenong to Batman Ave Melbourne it’s approximately 45 KM so round 47 minutes. This is taking the Eastern freeway.

All up it would be say 2 hours worth of driving and approx 120km worth of actual cruise, obviously more for the guys coming from GOR for example. And couple of hours at each show? In total it would be about the same as going one way to Apollo bay which is 239km form Noble Park.

We could miss Dandy Mountains and go straight from Cranbourne show to SAU show…via scenic ghetto route…it would be good to take the cars through the twisties though and get some scenery pics

Sounds fine to me,

I'll be totally lost out there so you will have to look after me... Hahahaha!

Hey the dandy mountains arent bad i live at the bottom of the mountain, there is nothing dodgy about where i live except me hehehe.

Look i am happy to do whatever, Its just that this was being organised so Stagea people could catch up and have a chat etc, I dont want people who said they can come but decide not to cause they are being dodged, ie: Luke, considering most of us live around the metro are even if we are outer suburbs we are still a hell of a lot closer than what other members are that live out towards geelong or ballarat etc...

I am more than happy to head out, over, around whatever (think I am the only one coming from this side?). We can do the GOR next time. I do agree though that the whole point was a Stagea get together so I wouldn't want other factors and events to detract from that happening.

Cheers

Luke

Fair enough and good point people…

Just though could try and accommodate all interests but good point and fair enough …

Cool so all happy to scrap VW Show N Shine?

OK new proposal.

2nd

Meet - Meet Central early (Princes HWY Clayton Next to Mexican cantina/ park)

Cruise -Dandenong Mountains

Rest -Photo’s, Lunch/food depending on time. Share stories

Cruise -Dandenong Mountains to SAU Show N Shine

SAU Show n Shine -Birrarung Mar, Melbourne Map 2F J6 (alternate 1B S12, alternate 43 K9)

Lunch/Chat/Show off beasts - Relax check out the cars maybe lunch no.2

Possible Cruise -To Geelong or further for some beachside photo’s seeing as we’ll save some time from the cranny cruise and VW show

Cruise - Petrol and Home

So that is

-From Clayton to Mt Dandenong is roughly 33 KM which works out to approx 40 minutes

-Spend a couple of hours in mountains

-From Mt Dandenong to Batman Ave Melbourne it’s approximately 45 KM so round 47 minutes. This is taking the Eastern freeway. Could do an in town cruise… Just add maybe 15 min max

-spend some time at SAU show

- maybe cruise to Geelong for a final catch up then go home

Sound good

Yep, the last destination could be optional (Geelong, could be just Williamstown or Port Melbourne if we still feel the need) see how everyone is travelling at that point I guess. I am heading that way so is no drama for me but if people want to split from the city that would be cool I think.

Sounding good though!

Cheers

Luke

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now



  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • OK, so regardless of whether you did Step 1 - Spill Step 2 - Trans pan removal Step 3 - TCM removal we are on to the clean and refill. First, have a good look at the oil pan. While you might see dirty oil and some carbony build up (I did), what you don't want to see is any metal particles on the magnets, or sparkles in the oil (thankfully not). Give it all a good clean, particularly the magnets, and put the new gasket on if you have one (or, just cross your fingers)
    • One other thing to mention from my car before we reassemble and refill. Per that earlier diagram,   There should be 2x B length (40mm) and 6x C length (54mm). So I had incorrectly removed one extra bolt, which I assume was 40mm, but even so I have 4x B and 5x C.  Either, the factory made an assembly error (very unlikely), or someone had been in there before me. I vote for the latter because the TCM part number doesn't match my build date, I suspect the TCM was changed under warranty. This indeed led to much unbolting, rebolting, checking, measuring and swearing under the car.... In the end I left out 1x B bolt and put in a 54mm M6 bolt I already had to make sure it was all correct
    • A couple of notes about the TCM. Firstly, it is integrated into the valve body. If you need to replace the TCM for any reason you are following the procedure above The seppos say these fail all the time. I haven't seen or heard of one on here or locally, but that doesn't mean it can't happen. Finally, Ecutek are now offering tuning for the 7 speed TCM. It is basically like ECU tuning in that you have to buy a license for the computer, and then known parameters can be reset. This is all very new and at the moment they are focussing on more aggressive gear holding in sports or sports+ mode, 2 gear launches for drag racing etc. It doesn't seem to affect shift speed like you can on some transmissions. Importantly for me, by having controllable shift points you can now raise the shift point as well as the ECU rev limit, together allowing it to rev a little higher when that is useful. In manual mode, my car shifts up automatically regardless of what I do which is good (because I don't have to worry about it) but bad (because I can't choose to rev a little higher when convenient).  TCMs can only be tuned from late 2016 onwards, and mine is apparently not one of those although the car build date was August 2016 (presumably a batch of ADM cars were done together, so this will probably be the situation for most ADM cars). No idea about JDM cars, and I'm looking into importing a later model valve body I can swap in. This is the top of my TCM A couple of numbers but no part number. Amayama can't find my specific car but it does say the following for Asia-RHD (interestingly, all out of stock....): So it looks like programable TCM are probably post September 2018 for "Asia RHD". When I read my part number out from Ecutek it was 31705-75X6D which did not match Amayama for my build date (Aug-2016)
    • OK, Step 3, if you need to remove the valve body, either to replace it, the TCM, or to do a more complete drain.  First, you need to disconnect the TCM input wires, they are about half way up the transmission on the drivers side. One plug and the wires are out of the way, but there is also a spring clip that stops the socket from sliding back into the transmission. On my car the spring clip was easy to get, but the socket was really stuck in the o-ring of the transmission housing and took some.....persuasion. You can see both the plug to remove (first) and the spring clip (second) in this pic Incidentally, right next to the plug, you can see where the casting has allowance for a dispstick/filler which Nissan decided not to provide. there is a cap held on with a 6mm head bolt that you can remove to overfill it (AMS recommend a 1.5l overfill). Final step before the big mess, remove the speed sensor that is clipped to the valve body at the rear of the box.  Then removal of the Valve Body. For this the USDM Q50 workshop manual has a critical diagram: There are a billion bolts visible. Almost all of them do not need to be removed, just the 14 shown on the diagram. Even so, I both removed one extra, and didn't check which length bolt came from which location (more on that later....). Again it is worth undoing the 4 corners first, but leaving them a couple of turns in to hold the unit up....gravity is not your friend here and trans oil will be going everywhere. Once the corners are loose but still in remove all the other 10 bolts, then hold the valve body up with 1 hand while removing the final 4. Then, everything just comes free easily, or like in my case you start swearing because that plug is stuck in the casing. Done, the valve body and TCM are out
    • OK, so if you are either going for the bigger fluid change or are changing the valve body which includes the Transmission Control Module (TCM), first you should have both a new gasket 31397-1XJ0A and a torque wrench that can work down to 8Nm (very low, probably a 1/4 drive one). You can probably get by without either, but I really didn't want to pull it all apart together due to a leak. First, you now need that big oil pan. The transmission pan is 450 long x 350 wide, and it will probably leak on all sides, so get ready for a mess. There are 24x 6mm headed bolts holding the pan on. I undid the 2 rear corners, then screwed those bolts back in a couple of turns to let the pan go low at that end, then removed all the middle bolts on each side. Then, undo the front corner bolts slowly while holding the pan up, and 80% of the fluid will head out the rear. From there, remove the remaining bolts and the pan is off. You can see it is still dripping oil absolutely everywhere...it dripped all night.... I got another couple of litres when I removed the pan, and then another few when I removed the valve body - all up another 4l on top of the 3 already dropped in step 1.
×
×
  • Create New...