High RPM between gears

[Nate Stuart]

I'm guessing that the dashpot is there soley for smoothing out the on to off
throttle transition in the driveline. At 3 grand+ you can whip yer foot off
the pedal fast as can be and there is no thud in the driveline like in the
non-dashpot equipped cars. Personally I hate the thing, and next time I'm
the the area it's coming out. It's a plain nuissance below 2500RPM, and
makes the car worse to drive in any kind of city traffic IMHO.

Later!
-Nate
'89 90q


> The throttle dashpot was set up mostly for carburated cars. When the
> throttle was slammed shut, fuel flow into the venturi would continue for
> a moment due to fluid momentum. This would be open to intake air (now
> with no velocity) which meant raw hydrocarbons would dump directly onto
> the butterfly and into the atmosphere. Since fuel injected cars meter
> fuel under pressure in response to either the fuel distributor plate or
> the mass flow sensor, this seems to serve little purpose. So, Audi must
> have designed this in for some other reason.