Coolant, fuel & dash lights on ERA turbo?
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Hi I'm waiting on a couple of manuals to arrive and just need the basic info for an ERA Turbo.

What coolant would you use on an ERA Turbo? 30/70 (Green) or 50/50 (Red/Green)?
I can get the brands Nulon, Peak and Blue Mountain.

Are radiator flush solutions a waste of time? Am I better to just flush it out with a hose?

What octane fuel would you use in an ERA Turbo? 91/95/98? Any need for octane boosters?

Also, does anyone know what the lights on the ERA Turbo dash indicate?



Thanks

2 greens will be indicators then you will have high beams then oil pressure and ignition

Done now needs redoing lol

Indicators are obvious, blue is high beam, red is the charging light and yellow is oil pressure. Not sure what the exh thing could be though. I think as long as the coolant is ethylene glycol based you can put in whatever, I'd just hose the hell out of the cooling system and as far as fuel goes i wouldn't put anything in below the 'super unleaded' variants at petrol stations. BP, Sainsburys and shell I've all had good experiences with on an n/a engine. Asda I wouldn't even put in a cheap hack, mayaswell fill the car with moose piss or something instead.

Use the highest octane you can..

I guess the other issue will be the lack of lead. I doubt the ERA ever had hardened valve seats fitted to allow the safe use of unleaded fuel

Unless someone has already done this ?

93PON in the US is equivalent to 97/98RON in the rest of the world

Just the US use their PON rating isntead.

Edited by stevieturbo on 19th May, 2014.

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

I think from memory the early UK ones were before unleaded seats and the late UK had them and all Japanese had unleaded seats, as Japan when unleaded long before UK. Pop me your ERA number in PM and I will check against records of your engine number and let you know. The EXH light is exhaust over heat light, on most carb Japanese cars, if the car is over fueling the car glows hot and there is a temp sensor behind the car in the exhaust pipe and it puts the EXH light on, so you dont park it on dry grass and set fire to the car and more importantly to them the forest!!