[urq] Re: 10V FWIW dept

[Ed Kellock]

I've noticed in my chipped but otherwise stock '89 200q that on a long
stretch of mild uphill highway with the cruise control on, it will hunt a
bit for a steady speed.

Ed


On 1/6/06, Pasqualoni, James E <james.pasqualoni at gs.com> wrote:
>
> On Friday, January 06, 2006 2:37 PM, Steve B wrote:
>
> ... no BTDT, but I'm finding it hard to correlate lightening the flywheel
> with maintaining a constant speed on the freeway ... certainly the amount
> of
> inertia the transmission adds should wash out any loss of rotating mass in
> the flywheel.
>
> If your car is having problems maintaining speed under cruise control I'd
> recommend looking for something else wrong ... like sticking in the speedo
> cable or a slight vacuum leak in the cruise control plumbing.
>
> Steve B
> San José, CA (USA)
>
> -----------------------------------
>
> Agreed-perhaps the cruise control computer needs to be recalibrated to the
> improved throttle response associated with the LWFW?  If the throttle
> input
> motions remain constant but the throttle response is improved due to the
> LWFW, it would make sense that the system would not work as efficiently,
> no?
> Then again, I am not very smart and know very little, so take all this
> with
> a grain of salt or two...
>
> Jim
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