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DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
#103
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
ORIGINAL: acrokat
We are just changing where the brushes contact the track. In essence moving the entire track down a little.
We are just changing where the brushes contact the track. In essence moving the entire track down a little.
I thinkI need to see a diagram of exactly how this whole apparatus works. The pictures just aren't cutting it for me.
#104
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
ORIGINAL: 157db
Lets see. Bend wipers. No thanks.
Install a new travel stop so the relaxed
travel is a few mm less. Hmmmmmm
Sounds like a better way instead of
bending wipers. Soon the carbon will
be worn away from too much pressure
from misbent wipers. Forget the lag,
how about the new dead spots and
undesired quirky response from missing
resistance material?
Put a travel stop on mine and now its
fully micro adjustable with no bending
of wipers. Hows that for a modified mod?
Lets see. Bend wipers. No thanks.
Install a new travel stop so the relaxed
travel is a few mm less. Hmmmmmm
Sounds like a better way instead of
bending wipers. Soon the carbon will
be worn away from too much pressure
from misbent wipers. Forget the lag,
how about the new dead spots and
undesired quirky response from missing
resistance material?
Put a travel stop on mine and now its
fully micro adjustable with no bending
of wipers. Hows that for a modified mod?
#105
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
It's a nice discovery, I guess, but I don't really see what it gives? Like the clutch or brake bite points, the gas pedal is just something you get used to.
- Unless of course you go to meetings where these things are measured, with an award for the person with the least amount of dead pedal [&:]
- Unless of course you go to meetings where these things are measured, with an award for the person with the least amount of dead pedal [&:]
#106
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
ORIGINAL: richmod
So where is the initiall point of contact - closest to the gold plate or farthest? In other words - Which way does the brush move across the strip when you press the pedal - TOWARD the gold plate or AWAY from it? If the initial point of conact is AWAY from the gold plate and the brush moves TOWARD it, then WOT would be the exact opposite of your picture - it would be over the gold plate. If the brush initially STARTS over the gold plate and moves away from it, my problem there is - how is this physically possible given the position of the brushes?
I thinkI need to see a diagram of exactly how this whole apparatus works. The pictures just aren't cutting it for me.
ORIGINAL: acrokat
We are just changing where the brushes contact the track. In essence moving the entire track down a little.
We are just changing where the brushes contact the track. In essence moving the entire track down a little.
I thinkI need to see a diagram of exactly how this whole apparatus works. The pictures just aren't cutting it for me.
#107
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
ORIGINAL: Derf00
That would be fine logic but they WILL wear out no matter what. Probably a little sooner with the mod but in the end, it will wear out.
ORIGINAL: 157db
Lets see. Bend wipers. No thanks.
Install a new travel stop so the relaxed
travel is a few mm less. Hmmmmmm
Sounds like a better way instead of
bending wipers. Soon the carbon will
be worn away from too much pressure
from misbent wipers. Forget the lag,
how about the new dead spots and
undesired quirky response from missing
resistance material?
Put a travel stop on mine and now its
fully micro adjustable with no bending
of wipers. Hows that for a modified mod?
Lets see. Bend wipers. No thanks.
Install a new travel stop so the relaxed
travel is a few mm less. Hmmmmmm
Sounds like a better way instead of
bending wipers. Soon the carbon will
be worn away from too much pressure
from misbent wipers. Forget the lag,
how about the new dead spots and
undesired quirky response from missing
resistance material?
Put a travel stop on mine and now its
fully micro adjustable with no bending
of wipers. Hows that for a modified mod?
BTW, I think I like "pot" better than "rheo". More sensitivity with a "pot".
#108
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
ORIGINAL: marcuskeeler
It's a nice discovery, I guess, but I don't really see what it gives? Like the clutch or brake bite points, the gas pedal is just something you get used to.
- Unless of course you go to meetings where these things are measured, with an award for the person with the least amount of dead pedal [&:]
It's a nice discovery, I guess, but I don't really see what it gives? Like the clutch or brake bite points, the gas pedal is just something you get used to.
- Unless of course you go to meetings where these things are measured, with an award for the person with the least amount of dead pedal [&:]
#109
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
ORIGINAL: marcuskeeler
It's a nice discovery, I guess, but I don't really see what it gives? Like the clutch or brake bite points, the gas pedal is just something you get used to.
- Unless of course you go to meetings where these things are measured, with an award for the person with the least amount of dead pedal [&:]
It's a nice discovery, I guess, but I don't really see what it gives? Like the clutch or brake bite points, the gas pedal is just something you get used to.
- Unless of course you go to meetings where these things are measured, with an award for the person with the least amount of dead pedal [&:]
#110
RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!)
Okay, I think Isee how the throttle works now. That little plastic circle at the end of the black housing carbon strip part AND the end of the whitehousing acts as a hinge (or axis), When you press the pedal, the whole whitehousing slides rotates around that axis thus sliding the brushes across the carbon strips . Correct?
If I'm right about how the throttle works, then the brushes are ALWAYS in contact with the carbon strip. this mod is only changing WHERE the brushes are in contact with the strip. The theory is that somehow if the brushes start above the gold plate instead of a few mm to the right of it, somehow that decreases throttle delay, supposedly because that area of the strip is more "sensitive". But sensitive to what - movement of the brush? Meaning, in that area above the gold plate, it would take less brush movement to illicit the same amount of throttle response than it would elsewhere? I don't get it.The maximumdistance traveled by the brushes across the strip is still the same, just shifted. Seems to me the ECU would just account for this shift and just make the new position it's new "normal". Enlighten me please someone/
If I'm right about how the throttle works, then the brushes are ALWAYS in contact with the carbon strip. this mod is only changing WHERE the brushes are in contact with the strip. The theory is that somehow if the brushes start above the gold plate instead of a few mm to the right of it, somehow that decreases throttle delay, supposedly because that area of the strip is more "sensitive". But sensitive to what - movement of the brush? Meaning, in that area above the gold plate, it would take less brush movement to illicit the same amount of throttle response than it would elsewhere? I don't get it.The maximumdistance traveled by the brushes across the strip is still the same, just shifted. Seems to me the ECU would just account for this shift and just make the new position it's new "normal". Enlighten me please someone/