Luckily this happened near home.

I was driving then all of the sudden it felt like I lost power. I switched to manumatic and saw that I was in second. Tried up shifting dashboard indicator reads 3 but I'm just limping along. Turned the car around and limped home. The engine runs fine but when I shift into D or R it's like I'm in N. Manumatic is out too. Any ideas?

 

Sounds like what I have heard called the "Limp home "mode. Does the owners manual say anything about it? What happens when you "re-boot"? (Just like with Windoze).

 

hmmmm i would suggest resetting ur ECU.. that may help

Ed Lin

 

yea, there is something in the manual that talks about that. How were your temperatures?

 

Well, my baby is coming home tomorrow after a new tranny, SGP VB and TC upgrade.... keep you posted.

 

Wow, that's a surprise!......Did it give you any clue about any issues b4 it broke?
Let us know what happens, and what damage they found.

C.

 

This happened to me once; I simply shut down and restarted and it worked fine. It hasn't happened since.

Good luck with the upgrades, should be an awesome tranny.

 

The saga:

One Saturday night I was running an errand in town. Not driving crazy or anything. I heard a slight bump from the floor near the tranny area. Start thinking "oh ****!". Next day I was driving around town and suddenly 2nd, 1st were slipping to the point where nothing was engaging. Luckily I was able to coast it home ~ 1 mile and pushed it into my drivway with the help of a neighbor. Evenutally got it to a shop and had them take a look (meanwhile I'm thinking why the F did I go FI?). They found all bits of metal in the filter. Don't know exactly what failed(I suspect clutchpacks based on what I've read on my350z.com). Anyway get a new tranny from a wreck , TC from level 10, and send out the VB to SGP. Finally we got it all together. The shifts are awesome now, hard and fast. It even chirps in second after I launch. I still what to get a tranny cooler for it and possibly a temp gauge since I had know idea what temp my tranny was running when it dumped. Anyway everything is happy in Xman's life again.

 

Is the VB and TC making a big perf. difference. Can't wait to see you run. Maybe you'll take me for a ride next week...or let me sit in on a 1/4 mile run!

 

Definitely! I'll PM you next week. I want to get there when the gates open.

 

AS do I. Gotta get in and get out before the heat attack. I can't believe a year has gone by. You could be running 13.2 or so I'd bet!

 

i'm gonna have to go FI eventually. I am glad I can finally sample both a Stillen Exhaust and a FI X at E Town next week