Disable the power?

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 7:24 pm

do you have a spare potato?

or when you get a block from there take a spark plug out and bang the gap closed. by the time they figure it out you'll be there to pick up the car anyway. they wont pull in front of a car coz they'll see your car is sick from "idle"

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:45 pm

Doctor G wrote:Oh and I'd stay far away from Flirida

yeah thats what i do too!!!

GoldenEagle · Post by **GoldenEagle** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 4:03 am

Unplug the vacuum hose running to the brake booster.

I will post more ideas later.

Toby · Post by **Toby** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:43 am

These are good ideas, keep 'em coming

I like the limp-mode idea - why not use the built-in rev limiter?

Naah this job it a bit too big for a mobile fix.

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:23 am

GoldenEagle wrote:Unplug the vacuum hose running to the brake booster.

I will post more ideas later.

that will lean out cylinder 4 and it wont be that pretty! seen it happen on the porsche challenge cars i was involved with a while back!

HancoB · Post by **HancoB** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 8:07 am

As I was dozing off last night dreaming about my car I thought about this...Our cars have A tps right??? Now if you can build a circuit that only alows it to open to 40% or so the car cant really go into boost or high speed for that matter. Controlling the tps means that you control fuel and air levels and that means no ping or over or under fueling...now there is a plan for you!

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:28 am

or you could just set the idle switch to be on idle mode all the time!

Doctor G · Post by **Doctor G** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:49 am

I know on our SR's if the water temp sensor is unplugged then the car goes into limp mode. Maybe the CA will do the same.

GoldenEagle · Post by **GoldenEagle** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:08 pm

veecee wrote:
GoldenEagle wrote:Unplug the vacuum hose running to the brake booster.

I will post more ideas later.
that will lean out cylinder 4 and it wont be that pretty! seen it happen on the porsche challenge cars i was involved with a while back!

I know, I have done it to my own sx. Idle is unstable and the engine cuts if you do not keep the rpm above 700. Driving the car was not as fun either. I spent weeks trying to figure out the problem end a friend of mine asked if there were any problems with vacuum. Low and behold I forgot I unplugged the vacuum line several weeks prior to keep any of the neighborhood kids from taking it for a joy ride.

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:16 pm

by "wont be pretty" i meant that it will stuff up the internals of your engine.

GoldenEagle · Post by **GoldenEagle** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 9:47 pm

Regular engine flushes along side the regular oil changes help clean out the internals. None the less I do agree with you, allowing the internals to get clogged with foreign debris is not good for the engine internals.

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:14 am

i want some of whatever it is you're smoking!!!

i never said anything about debris in engines, and engine flushing, etc.

i said:

if you remove the brake booster hose...

you will lean out the cylinder that is closest to the pipe (cylinder 4). that is not good for the internals of the engine.

the particular car i'm talking about eventually cracked a cylinder top and needed to be rebuilt.

no amount of engine flushing and oil changes would've stopped the fact that unmetered air was getting into the system near cylinder 4 and caused cylinder 4 to f_ck out!

its just a bad idea

widowmaker · Post by **widowmaker** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:50 pm

just put a cup of sugar in your petrol tank

Doctor G · Post by **Doctor G** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:37 am

Toby did you find a place to do all the dent removal and stuff at a good price? I think my sabre needs a face lift. Every time I stop at a shop some idiot or the idiot's kid opens their door and gives me another dent.

Toby · Post by **Toby** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:41 pm

Haven't started looking yet, but will try: dent doctor, chips away, coachman's