New battery
Just fitted a new battery, last one an Exide battery lasted over 6 years but ran dry so was stuffed. New battery is a Bosch AsiaSilver which is recommended for JDM cars plus it was the largest one that fitted, width wise there is only about 5mm clearance left. I got mine from Costco so it was a lot cheaper than retail but it should still be only around £50.
Piccy here: http://www.redfto.co.uk/Images06/battery.jpg
posted by RedFTO @ 12:22 pm
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Hey Linley,
Car's still looking good and I like the Blog. I'll happily take up your offer of posting some comments (especially as I know how disappointing it can be putting hours into a website and then getting no interaction from anyone else).
Just after I got my FTO I left the interior lights on and ran the battery so flat that I had to replace it. Stupid me though I went with what Halfords suggested, or maybe what I'd read somewhere, i.e. that Micra batteries fitted. Yeah, sure it fits, it's tiny! Next time I will squeeze in some sort of monster like you've done here.
I couldn't help but notice though that there is a tiny air intake thing above the main duct - what's this for? Does it run into that small tube which as standard comes out of the duct - again, what's this for? I took mine apart to replace the gear cable bracket which had sheared off and I missed to notice this tiny tube when putting it all back together. As a consequence it didn't tick over and would stall at traffic lights until I noticed what I don'e wrong. Never did discover what it was though.
Anyway, keep up the good work and feel free to check my website here: www.the-woodshop.org, although there's a shameful lack of anything FTO related yet. I'll sort it soon as I can.
Hi Ben,thanks for the comments, glad you like he blog, just thought it would be a nice addition and allows feedback etc.
The small filter you can see is the breather pipe outlet from the rear bank, this normally connects to the small pipe you have on the air intake pipework, however if you look inside the intake you will see there will be a lot of oily muck, so I blocked the intake pipe and fitted a filter on the outlet, this will be replaced soon with an oil catch tank and the other breather pipe also then connected. I will check out your website :-)
Interesting. I'm kind of surprised that it works though. As I said when my breather pipe was unconnected to the main pipework it would cause the engine to stall when it should be ticking over, even though the end of the breather pipe was open. I figured that there must be some sort of vacuum inside the main pipe and that the breather pipe required this rather than atmospheric pressure. Obviously not if yours works with the filter on it. It still leaves me wondering why mine wouldn't tick over then and why re-connecting the small pipe fixed it?
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