My Grid Ts Dancer Has Pooped Itself

[reeceo21]

Heya guys as the title suggests my AWD controller for my gts4 has had it. The wiring itself is fine just the little box which you set the AWD settings at. I opened it up for inspection and a capacitor has dropped its guts everywhere. (im assuming thats why the backlight always flickered and now just is not going anything). Anyways fixing it i believe is not possible as the capacitor acid is as hard as a rock. but from what i could see only four wires plugged into that controller. If say i bought a resistor, switch, and a few other little things do you think it would be possible to make ? i really liked this controller as it had the option to keep the stock attessa or have complete rwd or 4wd etc. if not s there any other good units out there ?

[DVS JEZ]

Try cleaning the board with acetone see if it removes the acid. If it does then u could try replacing the cap

[Duncan]

There are few places that make these any more, even grid I think don't now days.

The 2 choices I know of are Mountainrunner on these forums from QLD (he makes an excellent unit, lots of options, display, and excellent local support), or a mob on ebay that put $20 of components in a box and charge $200 for it (this also works pretty well, just missing the fine adustment).

Either will be miles better than stock in an r32

[R.3.2.G.T.R]

duncan, i read in a post while back, u also ran raceworx attessa controller, how did u find this unit in terms of performance?

[Duncan]

I found it excellent...particularly becaues Raceworx is my race team

I didn't mention that because it has been out of production for years. But if you can find on around, grab it. They do come up second hand.

They were priced a little above the ebay ones but were much more controlable. Once they were out of production Mountainrunner's ones became the best option from my point of view because they have the same or more control as the Raceworx ones did. They are just a little more expensive, but still very cheap for the performance you gain.

[R.3.2.G.T.R]

sweet, I have one to wire up hopefully this week, for all-round street use, is setting 4 recommended or it that more track setting?

[Duncan]

haha good score, there can't be many of them left around!

In street use you won't notice too much (unless you drive like me all the time). I'm sure 4 is fine

On the track, 4-6 depending on what you prefer, your tyres and wheel alignment and how healthy your attessa system is. 10 if it is wet and you aren't running more than about 20min at a time

0 if you like skids everynow and then.

[reeceo21]

Cheers for the advice guys, i will try cleaning first maybe even take it to a pro to have a look, what is my cheapest alternative ? I want to have 50/50 awd, keep the attessa system and be able to have full rwd will the shoddy ebay one do the trick ?

[Duncan]

yeah ebay one should be fine (as would a 2c resistor if you had the time to stuff around and find the right one). basically these controllers just reduce the output from the lateral g sensor which causes the computer to think the car is in a straight line, therefore applying more power to the front.

[reeceo21]

well considering i have the loom still which i believe is four wires ? would it be hard to make ?

[R.3.2.G.T.R]

haha good score, there can't be many of them left around!

In street use you won't notice too much (unless you drive like me all the time). I'm sure 4 is fine

On the track, 4-6 depending on what you prefer, your tyres and wheel alignment and how healthy your attessa system is. 10 if it is wet and you aren't running more than about 20min at a time

0 if you like skids everynow and then.

Duncan: do u still have instruction manual handy? I'm currently doing the wiring to the radio control switch, manual advises cutting orange, silver and middle black wires of the switch

Controller end has four wires, white, green, blue and black

Connect the white wire from the controller to orange wire, blue wire on controller to black wire and the green wire (instructions stop here)

Now I would assume to connect green wire to the last remaining wire (silver), so when operating, pressing up increases adjustment and down vice-versa

When I hold up button for 3 secs, my abs light comes on, I thought this would happen if I held the down button as it would turn off all front drive

Is my wiring connected wrong?

[Duncan]

yep that ain't working right....I've linked 2 versions of the full manual with different wire colours. ABS and 4wd light should come on when you hold "down" 3 seconds.

http://www.hgeconsulting.com.au/attesa32-33.pdf

http://www.hgeconsulting.com.au/attessa_last.pdf

one thing to try if it is misbehaving....hold the up button while starting the car and it will reset the internal memory. Sometimes this clears some wierd errors.

wire colours did change over the years and I haven't done one for ages. Send me a pm if you are still stuck I can drop by and give you a hand sorting it out.