I present to you "Thrust Issues"! My very own project car!
I know nothing about cars and just bought a pre facelift k11 with severall problems.
This car was kind of a impulse buy, the price was right and wanted a project car for years now. I've been in this forum for a while, lurking, after I decided that I want to work in a micra.
I was looking for a rev happy , japanese, manual car that is easy to work on and that i could take to my local track and b roads. My local market ended up being civics or micras. I didn't want to go for a civic without vtec , but those are way more expensive than the micra, which I fell in love with because its just a little kart.
I have 0 performance expectations so it isn't going to disapoint me.
I'm not chasing performance, i just want to work every aspect of the car to learn more.
The car is a 1.3L k11 with a 5 speed manual and 114k km on the tach (70k miles for my non metric friends!). Everything works inside the car, even the AC. The outside of the car has some rust, that can be fixed by some sanding and paiting.
I will take some better pics of the car to document the current state of it.
The problems started when I took a closer look under the hood. I did clean what i was sure was fine to clean with soapy water, a brush and some paper towels.
Heres what i found, in order of "what worries me less" to "that sounds expensive and I have no idea what it could be":
Taking it for a 1 mile test i found the revs to go a bit low when i lift the throtle and put it in neutral (or clutch) in a red light. This might be supposed to happen but I didnt find anything that suggests this. I would think the idle should be the lowest revs the car would do if the clutch is engaged or the car is in neutral.
I'll keep this updated as i work on it and find more issues.
I know nothing about cars and just bought a pre facelift k11 with severall problems.
This car was kind of a impulse buy, the price was right and wanted a project car for years now. I've been in this forum for a while, lurking, after I decided that I want to work in a micra.
I was looking for a rev happy , japanese, manual car that is easy to work on and that i could take to my local track and b roads. My local market ended up being civics or micras. I didn't want to go for a civic without vtec , but those are way more expensive than the micra, which I fell in love with because its just a little kart.
I have 0 performance expectations so it isn't going to disapoint me.
I'm not chasing performance, i just want to work every aspect of the car to learn more.
The car is a 1.3L k11 with a 5 speed manual and 114k km on the tach (70k miles for my non metric friends!). Everything works inside the car, even the AC. The outside of the car has some rust, that can be fixed by some sanding and paiting.
I will take some better pics of the car to document the current state of it.
The problems started when I took a closer look under the hood. I did clean what i was sure was fine to clean with soapy water, a brush and some paper towels.
Heres what i found, in order of "what worries me less" to "that sounds expensive and I have no idea what it could be":
- The blinker fluid reservoir isn't present. Everything seems to work when i put water in the pipe, that is plugged with a wine bottle cork ! Don't care at all about this. Is an easy fix that I can do.
- This is broken. I looked for what it is and it seems to be the rocker cover breather. As I understand, it makes the engine not become a pressure cooker and shoot out the dipstick. It-s there in case the exhaust gases get past the pistons rings, but this doenst seem like it is supposed to happen. Maybe it is? I found some oil on the air filter/box, so i cleaned the air box and will check again if it keeps happening. I might hotglue this back to the airbox. Have to understand this system better.
- According to the previous owner, the car's temperature on the tach is broken, being pinned on the top. The car is kitted with a state of the art temperature gauge! Its super generic and I dont thrust hacks made by someone else. This worries me, but according to the previous owner it never overheats. I ran the car for a while and tried to check the radiator for hotness. Top hose is hot, not a single part of the radiator is even warm. I'd suppose this means that the water pump is working, because hot water is on top. Maybe the radiator wasnt warm because the car wasnt warmed up enough. I dont thrust the gauge, and it's the inspiration for the name of the project. I need to study how a cooling system works. This is very high on my priority list but the pipes dont seem to have a lot of pressure build up, it might not be clogged so I'm not so worried about it exploding, need to fix the following problem first.
Taking it for a 1 mile test i found the revs to go a bit low when i lift the throtle and put it in neutral (or clutch) in a red light. This might be supposed to happen but I didnt find anything that suggests this. I would think the idle should be the lowest revs the car would do if the clutch is engaged or the car is in neutral.
I'll keep this updated as i work on it and find more issues.