Stock NA6 low end power + 2nd Gear on NA6 hard to engage ?

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fattima
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Postby fattima » Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:01 am

When I got my NA the shift was pretty ordinary as well. I changed the gearbox oil and the shift is heaps better. I used Royal Purple synthetic oil, Redline is the most popular and is a very good product.
Sasso has mentioned the timing advance and it is worth doing, the other thing I found on mine was there was excessive slack in the throttle cable may pay to check that as well.

adherent
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Postby adherent » Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:16 pm

I work in North Ryde. I've got a '90 NA6. You're welcome to have a drive in a lunchtime if you like.

I sent you an email with contact details,
cheers,
john

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Postby adherent » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:19 pm

Just pm'd you with details.

Mines black with gold wheels ...

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Postby Curly » Wed Apr 30, 2008 3:33 pm

Absolutely no power below 5k sounds like a crank issue. Mine was absolutely gutless due to the cam timing slipping.

Does the main pulley wobble at all?

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Postby Curly » Tue Jun 03, 2008 6:36 pm

Ouch - sorry to hear that.

I was in the same boat a while back, and got away with spending a lot less money for a reasonable fix.

I picked up a short nose engine off a forumite, and swapped it myself. Took me a while to do, but came in well under $1000 if I charged my labour at $0/hr (a pretty fair price).


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