Rod Bender

Hi Rod, On my SR3 XX, I had one bad wire after just 25 hours run time. The metal circular conductor that attaches to the coil or the plug (cannot remember which) had broken in half, so it did not mak...

Trying to help diagnose a car with a few weird issues. Issue 1; It is an RSX car with a fuel cell, only about 6 hours total. Fuel pump has been replaced as it died on track, checked everything, and ev...

@rjbender I think you might find it interesting on the brake line setup of the early cars. It's quite different than what you're describing earlier in this thread. Attachment : PXL_20230603_05202...

@jasonfreed, I am sorry to hear this, but they are actually saving you quite a bit of money. Shifting problems often turn into catastrophic engine failure with parts exiting the crankcase in undesi...

and....they took off the actuator rod and are unable to shift it by hand so they think something is broken in the transmission. Apparently, the engine is coming out....... It's just so odd that th...

Check the aluminum arm to make sure it's still tight on the shaft coming out of the motor, also, manually force this back and forth to see if you can get it to change gear by hand.

@davidf I rarely bleed just to pull air out of the calipers, so I don't really know. When I do bleed, I drain the master cylinders, and put in all new fresh fluid. I use a Motive Power pressure bleede...

I appreciate the quick reply - both paddle shifters still work - the actuator rod is moving - it's like it is not moving enough to initiate the gear change but it's trying....so, the signal from the p...

Only bleeding out the fluid in the caliper.

Wow, I never had any issues like that. Do you have the floating rotors in the front?

My local track is Very Very Very hard on the brakes and creates brake fade on almost every car during the day. It was my own fault for not bleeding the brakes after the last session (3x20 min session...

There was as set on my car when I bought it. Someone hand made them. I did not like them. I tried something else. People may not like it, but it has worked really well the last 2 1/2 years... I s...

yeh i'm always frustrated 😀 - it's basically because i have to treat these final few hours of the day like qualifying runs; the problem is our cars are 10-25 seconds quicker than pretty much e...

@rojid, I know what you mean, I put my camera microphone far away enough so it can’t record my swearing when I make a mistake. 🤣🤣🤣

@rjbender That’s really interesting 👍 It sounds like Radical have ditched the oil cooler and replaced it with a heat exchanger for the XXR? Not sure about the 1st gear at idle part of the manu...