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Technical Broken down!
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Technical Broken down!
Really confused.
1st what happened to your Abarth's gearbox
2nd, why a momentart lack of oil pressure cause engine to die and not restart for minutes?
3rd what Stilo your bro got that this happens on
Jon.
ps sorry to change topic
ps sorry to change topic
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1. Abarths gearbox was apparently faulty (amongst other things)Really confused.
1st what happened to your Abarth's gearbox
2nd, why a momentart lack of oil pressure cause engine to die and not restart for minutes?
3rd what Stilo your bro got that this happens on
Jon.
ps sorry to change topic
2.No idea why this happened, maybe the oil needs topping up but it's not my car and it's going back tomorrow.
3.My bro's 1.6 Stilo reads "low oil pressure" or something of the like if you corner fast, but it's only cut out once i think.
Race cars have added baffles in sumps so they can go round sharp corners fast without loosing oil pressure, Road cars do not. Strange that is... :shrug:
Not 100% true, many road cars have baffled sumps, maybe not that many baffles compared to road cars prepared for track/race work where you may get continous hard cornering, but they are there. Some road cars even have dry sumps which is what most race cars will run, means you get no surge plus can mount engine lower in car as don't need a deep sump hung off bottom of the engine meaning better packaging (especially now with the front end pedestrain crash reg) and lower centre of gravity helping handling.
Yeah my 12v sump has a baffle aswell but its not a racing baffle
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Probably over reved it until the engine decided there was a fault and went into safe mode
she just threw a hissy fit 'cos you said she was slow...
