08-28-2016, 05:17 PM | #1 |
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Got this message during a track session "Drivetrain Malfunction. Drive moderately. Maximum drivetrain output not available".
I pulled into the pits, shut down, and restarted and the message cleared. What caused this?
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Wow, I just noticed this thread! Same thing happend to me. Were you almost out of gas? I did a search and read it could be bad gas. I wonder since the tank was so low, that the system got some contamination from from the bottom of the tank. My instructor didn't know either. After sitting for a few minutes, my message cleared also. I didn't go back on the track after that, and got some gas. I haven't seen the message since.
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Got this same thing on my last session of my first track day 3 weeks ago. Really freaked me out, so I took a cool down lap and pit out. I have a jb4 so I was thinking that was probably the issue. I can't remember how much gas I had left but it was probably low since it was my last run. Also, I tried to scan for a code with a cheap little OBD2 reader but didn't find anything, not sure if I need a better/different reader. Hopefully its nothing serious.
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Are you on jb4 or another tune?
I like Lightning much better than Thunderbolt.
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happened to me once when pushing it really hard on track, and another time when i was doing donuts.
Probably thought you were going to flip, safety issue. Is this the only time it did that?
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FWIW I got this once, and it went away w/o incident. Totally unrelated to tracking or hard driving - it was just after cold start, and not long after I was off break-in, so little really hard running ever. Scared the hell out of me, but never returned. At the dealership they had warned me that sometimes things just sort of crop up as a glitch, and to trust the system to know if something was really wrong - it will disable full power and keep ringing to stop you from really messing things up.
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This happened to me today after filling up. I had a quarter tank so I decided to fill up. When I was on the freeway, the drivetrain malfunction came on. The car drives but with less power.
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you can get this on track with low fuel, the tank has 2 sections that are small, one can run low. Dinan has a kit for it. I have been meaning to get around to it, but not big on dropping the tank. maybe in 18!
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My nismo 370z had the same issue. Ended up running two fuel pumps to fix it. One on each side of the tank. Fuel-it just released a solution with a bigger fuel filter that reaches to the corners of the fuel tank. Not for N55 Fseries yet though. No reason to drop the tank for any of the pump work. http://www.fuel-it.biz/e-series-135i...-lpfp-upgrade/
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You can see it here starting at lap four coming onto the front straight.
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That is unpleasant, 2 laps in traffic and two laps later fuel starve. Car works the infield 90 turns well, looks like a fun car otherwise, actually looks more fun than the 2r for short course.
Rovels crack me up, the road course is always such an afterthought. Everyone here gets soo excited over Daytona, it is the most boring thing to drive or race, I know more than one driver who have crashed out at Daytona on the banks at night in endurance racing because they were starting to fall asleep. |
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Streets of Willow is very technical and used to be my "home" track. But it beats up on wheels and cars too much.
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Very low gas JB4 Map4(Log Only) Heavy drift Then i got drive train malfunction Restart then all good, scan obd after restart no thing happen |
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