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Hi hola, I have got an owners manual of a Honda ES8. According to that you have to change CVT oil after every 40,000km or 2 years, whichever comes first. When you changed the oil last time did they use an ATF exchanger to do it?

Hi machan, those are the maintenance free ones right? When i bought the battery last time i asked the dealer about it but he was not very happy to install one in my car. He said that it doesn't suit srilankan conditions(climate) and they had some problems with some of those batteries. May be they are worried about the long warranty period. Machan do you know someone who is using amoron batteries? Are they really good? BEcause since it's maintenance free it'll be a big relief if it turns out to be a good battery.

Thanks a lot machan i really like silver EK3 s, the car looks perfect in silver and neat too.. Again great looking car you have got there bro.

hey bro when are you getting the car? last time you gave me a call you said at the end of april or something... what's been completed up to now? Goodluck bro.

You would be able to find a Honda EG8 that falls within your budget but since you are concerned about the fuel economy, i suggest you go for a toyota. But as hola said i also doubt that you would be able to get a decent AE110 between 1 to 1.2 mil.

This is a very nice car machan keep the mugen lip. Hey can you give me the colour code of your car?

This could happen due to two reasons machan. one is due to high temparature of the engine and the other is due to an electrical problem in you car. First check the engine temp and check whether the engine is working at a higher temparature than usual. If thats not the case then this should be due to an electrical problem in your car. Take the car to a battery dealership and ask them to check it. They have a special gadget for that. If there is a problem with the electrical system that thing would detect it. and it gives a digital readout which is more accurate than the old gauges that most of our machanics use. Hope you'd be able to solve the problem soon.

If you maintain the battery well it would last for more than 2 years. The battery in my honda is more than 2 years old and still its functioning perfectly.

Machan where did you get pipes for your cold air intake from? Didnt you buy the complete package.Because in most of the aftermarket CAI s' ,if you select the correct system for your car model, it's suppose to have a seperate 1/2 inch nipple on the intake pipe for you to connect the line coming from the tappet cover.

This is a grear car machan. If you are really interested watch the latest fifth gear video.

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Cannot recommend that machan.In Srilanka some machanics even drill a hole in the sump to connect the return oil line coming out from the turbo. The easiest and the best way is to install a remote oil filter relocation kit.This attach where your oil filter normally is, re-route the oil to a remotely mounted oil filter, and provides a return line back to the block for the filtered oil. This is the perfect place to tee off the connection and run a line to supply oil to your turbo.

Sorry machan earlier i thought you were talking about the engine's main air intake. Defineatly cold air gives more power. I dont agree with the first one. Because if the tappets need hot air, manufaturer would have connected that particular vecuum air line somewhere else instead of connecting it the intake system, in the first place. I dont think that you have to go in the hassle of remounting it somewhere else. I dont know the technical reason why that tube should be connected to the intake pipe but machn in most of the photos that i have seen in the net, after installing a CAI they connect that vacuum line to the intake pipe. So machan why dont you simply connect it to the intake pipe as you get on the stock car? Machan if you can find the right name of that vaccum line check whether it is this.PWM Vacuum Switching Valve.

Scientifically cooler the air more oxygen molecules it has. More O2 means more fuel that the engine management can add in the process of combustion. So you get more power. But most car manufacturers add restrictions to this to keep the emissions down to a certain limit. If you have noticed some of the aftermarket cold air intake units require you to mount the intake as far from the engine as possible, I have seen some pictures where intakes are mounted low down behind the front bumper. But in your situation machan I suggest you leave your air filter element where it is right now. Because if you mount your intake low down you might not be able to drive it on rainy days obviously because of the flooded roads. And machan even if you mount it far from the engine I don’t think that you’ll get a very noticeable amount of power increase. Is your car a VTEC? What are the other modifications you have done to it machan?

No problem at all bro. Its all about helping out someone who is really interested in car stuff. Machan actually that 15-30 minute thing was once said in sirasa tv- auto vision a long time back. If you remember they had a special segment called car clinic where people can call and ask expert openion. Hey are they still having that programme?I stopped wathching it after they started showing motor bikes and earth moving equipment .

Yea machan you can reset the ECU by disconnecting the battery. But you dont need to leave it like that for a long time. 15 to 30 minutes would be enough. But i dont think that you need to reset the ECU after a tune up. Resetting is normally done after a repair. For example if the check engine indicator lights up due to some fault in a sensor and after diagnosing and repairing it you will still find the check engine light working. This is due to the fact that ECU has no idea about the repair that you have carried out.So to turn this indicator off machanics reset the car computer. After resetting since the fault is now repaired and since the ECU is getting a correct signal from that particular sensor, it wont light up the check engine indicator again. you can either use the engine diagnose tool or you can simply disconnect the battery to reset it.

Hi hola, you really dont have to get connected with the cars ECU or the O2 sensor to carry out this task. And you dont even need a laptop. This is a simple task if you have the right equipment. What you need is a NGK Ait to fuel monitor.(http://www.ngk.com/afx/). But the sad thing is this is not available in Srilanka. I tried the NGK dealers whether they can bring one for me but they said they couldn't. If you have friends abroad then ask them to send one for you. Compaired to your method this would be much more easier and cost effective.And you can use this on any car whether its stock or totally modified and you dont need to have seperate softwares for diffferent cars. If you are interrested on this go to the link given above then you'll be able to get all the information. You'll also be able to download the manual. Thanks.

Great news finally its on then. Machan can you please tell the exact date you're going to have this on? Have some exams next month . Would there be an event for non modified stock cars? Thanks.

Hi man i suggest you go for the BMW. The jag would make a big hole in your wallet. Machan nira74, isn't there a 2 litre front wheel drive version?

Better trust wikipedia than other sites .Anyway thanks for the info bro.

Machan madmax, i got that info from the net. There it says that the engine in the X-Trail is SR20DET (NEO VVL) . Here's the link machan. http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/mod...8053&Nissan Anyway thanks machan.

Bro the engine in the X Trail GT is same as the engine in the Nissan silvia. The code is SR20DET. So this engine should be a good one. The power output of the X-trail GT is 280 HP, which is 30 more than the Silvia. This is due to higher compression ratio in the X trail(9.00:1) compaired to 8.50:1 in the Silvia.

Thanks RACERSEDGE for clearing that up.

Hi Hola isn't it the 96 model that some people call the EK2?