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Some photos I took of RG2
photos from the shoot out
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaminphoto/albums/72157658654780454Great event as usual, and the new timing system is awesome!
Are we still going to use sticky note for timing slip?
are you still looking for more driver?
and how many team do the club plan to field?I participated a couple years ago when we fielded two teams(a serious one to challenge the title and another one that just for fun).
If we have a fun team, I’m interested to join. Otherwise my pace is way too slow to help challenge for the title.yes they raised the idle rpm speed. very slightly, I’m guessing maybe just 50 rpm. right now its idle around maybe 550 or 600 rpm.
Just got a call back from Edge to pick up my car.
First, I’m a test/quality engineer and to be honest I’m not totally convinced of the fix. I think there are assumption being made without solid evidence. On the other hand, I understand the reality of troubleshooting is sometimes you can’t always get solid evidence. So I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that they have abundance of experience to rely on from making these assumption.
So here’s what they did.
They took off the pan and found the bearing and journal was fine. so that’s a good news.
Oil pump also visually looks fine but they replaced it anyway because they said they’ve seen this goes bad from age. They put everything back together and still see it flickering. I’ve seen it flickering at first but the last night I drove it was solid red. Edge said when they reproduced the problem it was solid red. so they think the oil pump helps.
Then they bump up the rev. And they haven’t been able to repro the issue after bumping up the rev, so it’s deemed fix.I suppose if I didn’t see the problem again then I’m happy, even though probably its just from bumping up the rev. If I see the problem again, at least I can cross off the bottom part of the engine.
I’m crossing my fingers its fixed.Thanks for the advise John.
I dropped the car this morning and just got a call back from Edge.
They rechecked the car and didn’t find anything suspicious. They replaced the oil with a heavier one. My original oil is Mobil1 0w40, and I think they replaced it with 15w50.
They let the engine warm up and the light is still on 🙁
It’s a real bummer, so the next step they suggested is to take the oil pan off and diagnose from there.
Hopefully just an oil pump seal or cracked picked up tube, as you mentioned. I really hope its not a rebuild time.Thanks for the idea Hal.
I have appointment with Edge tomorrow(Tuesday). I’m curious what their take on it.
@dave, thats good too know that this is not necessarily bad news for the engine. I guess around 130k is when this thing starts to show up for both of us.
@andy, yeah I’m surprised they didn’t take pressure measurement too. I googled this issue before, and only found a handful post. And all of them don’t have resolution.
So far it only happened when its idle. I only seen it flicker three times before I posted this. twice before I brought it to Edge and once after. However driving home tonight I actually seen it flicker few times 🙁
The good thing they are all always when its idle. Always when I put the gear to neutral. and it goes away if I rev the engine a little bit.
I’ll probably call Edge tomorrow.
