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From: Arthur Emerson <vreihen@hotmail.com>
To: pethier@isd.net <pethier@isd.net>; cliff_loh@infoserve.net
<cliff_loh@infoserve.net>; Autox@autox.team.net <Autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, September 24, 2000 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: Tech inspection, what to do....
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>"Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net> wrote:
>>
>>Seriously though, I have a hard time believing that fly-by-wire throttles
>>are necessary, a real advance, or even a very good idea.
>Although we've never met that I'm aware of, Phil, my impression
>of you from the above statement is that you also think that
>fuel injection and electronic ignition are also useless advances
>in automotive technology.
Nonsense. My Saturn twin-cam runs like a million bucks and keeps the
atmosphere around it relatively clean. This is the result of proper
fuel-injection and ignition technology. I think it is great. If I had the
money, I'd pitch my Weber and put fuel injection in the Lotus.
Maybe you ought to stop reading between the lines and read the lines.
>Although I have griped about opportunities
>not explioted in this first generation product, I do recognize the
>importance of said technology
OK. What's the importance of said technology?
>It bears mentioning that the system includes an annoying but
>necessary safety system. If the throttle is at WOT when the
>brakes are applied, the computer shuts down the engine. Sounds
>like a reasonable precaution for average drivers on public
>highways. Just don't try and left-foot brake the thing while
>you've got the throttle matted, or you'll purposely generate the
>same "throttle error" condition and shut the engine down. Don't
>ask how I know this..... :-(
The defense rests.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Suburban, 1962 Triumph TR4 CT2846L
LOON, MAC pethier@isd.net http://www.mnautox.com/
"It makes a nice noise when it goes faster"
- 4-year-old Adam, upon seeing a bitmap of Grandma Susie's TR4.
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