Regarding the Capsers Electronics Post

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Feb 12, 2002 | 09:57 AM

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Regarding the Capsers Electronics Post

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Some cars commonly involved in accidents were investigated for a certain technical name... I don't remember the exact name, but it was something like "quick start". The theory is that the car accelerates too quickly from a stop for someone to control. When a car was tagged as having this "problem", the computer would have a delay put into it. This delay would slow down the reaction time between physically being in WOT and the car acting as if it was in WOT. It's a pretty BS claim, since the "quick start" lies more in the fault of the driver than the car, but once the government gets involved because some kid couldn't control his car, weird things happen. This Casper module might help out such a car. The f-bodies were investigated for this, but they escaped!

For the record in 1989 GM redesigned the throttle body(actually the linkage for the blades)to make the throttle come on slower,meaning that for the first 50% of movement(at the pedal)the blades only open say 30% and the last 50%(at the pedal)opens the blades the rest of thew way.On later LT1 equipped cars the same was done but even more drasticly making it come on even slower for the first half of pedal travel.

And as for Caspers-they make tons of stuff for the Turbo Buick community(you should see the Shelby Cobra replica with the turbo buick motor they built)and is all top notch stuff.

Steve

Feb 12, 2002 | 12:23 PM

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Thanks for the info, Steve! Was that for all f-bodies, or just the V8 guys? I saw an '89 V6 throttle body "up close" and didn't see any external differences. Good to know, though.

Feb 12, 2002 | 03:10 PM