Team,

 

The diagnosis of my Zeds death continues. Spoke with a very very knowledgable guy who knows zeds better than most and I am posting this thought because he does not really want to say it in open forum.

My HKS ALC :rant: almost certainly accelerated the demise of my autobox. Whilst fitting it did crispen up the shift, it maintains line pressure in the box often when not needed and therefore puts the box under additional stresses that an already 13 year old autobox does not need. When designing the car the team found the best box they could to handle the stock power and then they struggled so it is no wonder all these old boxes are going bang. My advice is factor the cost of a new autobox into a purchase price of a zed auto now as it is definitely a case of not if but when it will blow.

 

As principled individual my ALC is not going for secondhand sale, it will be burned in my garden bonfire. It seems the zed world would be a better place without them !

 

Anyway J300TTR is going to z tech for new box, two new full bearing turbo's and nismo suspension as well as some other cosmetic stuff.

 

Will keep everyone updated

Team,

 

The diagnosis of my Zeds death continues. Spoke with a very very knowledgable guy who knows zeds better than most and I am posting this thought because he does not really want to say it in open forum.

My HKS ALC :rant: almost certainly accelerated the demise of my autobox. Whilst fitting it did crispen up the shift, it maintains line pressure in the box often when not needed and therefore puts the box under additional stresses that an already 13 year old autobox does not need. When designing the car the team found the best box they could to handle the stock power and then they struggled so it is no wonder all these old boxes are going bang. My advice is factor the cost of a new autobox into a purchase price of a zed auto now as it is definitely a case of not if but when it will blow.

 

As principled individual my ALC is not going for secondhand sale, it will be burned in my garden bonfire. It seems the zed world would be a better place without them !

 

Anyway J300TTR is going to z tech for new box, two new full bearing turbo's and nismo suspension as well as some other cosmetic stuff.

 

Will keep everyone updated

 

Forgot to mention yes it did have the uprated oil cooler done so that is no guarentee your box won't go ping. Someone asked me about warning symptoms..............Not shifting properly when cold and intermittent holding of the power mode light when booting it.............

Sorry to hear of your woes mate, but to be brutally honest - it's a bit naive to think that there will be no extra wear and tear when fitting go-faster mods.

Thought about manwell conversion?

No I did consider manual conversion but want auto as i regularly do 300 mile plus journeys sprinting from one end of country to another punctuated by crawling pace on the M6. It is during those bits of the journey you love an auto. I already have an RX8 with six screaming gears for blatting around the twisty bits so I get my fix from that.

My 300TT is my mile munching GT. Anyway Luke at Z Tech is fitting a fully re-conned autobox for me and doing the turbos at the same time. Sweeeeeeet :D

 

I thought the HKS ALC would accelerate the demise of the box but didn't realise how crude its operation was and how fast it shagged things. (6 months 10,000miles). My advice stay well clear.

Although I got a manual I wanted an auto for this very reason

 

 

 

 

No I did consider manual conversion but want auto as i regularly do 300 mile plus journeys sprinting from one end of country to another punctuated by crawling pace on the M6. It is during those bits of the journey you love an auto. I already have an RX8 with six screaming gears for blatting around the twisty bits so I get my fix from that.

My 300TT is my mile munching GT.

same scenario as increasing boost that little bit extra strain is added to an already old worn turbocharger-therefor its likely to fail more rapidly

 

im not an autobox specialist,but would imagin the hks alc would put a worn box under even more pressure and shorten life

while my Z was an auto I had an ALC2 fitted - great performance and well happy with the mod. then my autobox went kaboom. whether the ALC was to blame or not, no-one but the autobox will know. i was told by the supplier that it will not put extra strain on the box. you pays yer money you takes yer... etc. etc.

while my Z was an auto I had an ALC2 fitted - great performance and well happy with the mod. then my autobox went kaboom. whether the ALC was to blame or not, no-one but the autobox will know. i was told by the supplier that it will not put extra strain on the box. you pays yer money you takes yer... etc. etc.

 

It most certainly did...........I was well happy with the mod, crisp change sweet performance but short lived. Bottom line is these are 13-15 year old boxes so in hindsight i would have been better off putting the ALC money into a re-con / upgraded box.