kismetcapitan
June 3rd, 2012, 12:59
I was on my way back from a day of autocrossing, cruise control on 90, when I notice a car behind me approaching at warp speed. The correct thing to do is...get out of the way! (something most drivers need to learn, argh). Anyways, it was a Mercedes SL, probably somewhere between 130-150mph. He rockets past, and...I just can't help but to follow :P
In this case, I saw it as a "free speeding" opportunity. If I keep him within sight, yet he's well ahead of me, if he passes a cop, I'll pick up the instant-on radar and slow down, plus I won't be the cop's target, he will be. :hihi:
So I give the car the beans, but I don't floor it, because I want to keep some space. And then around 130mph, I hit some kind of fuel cut - the CEL flashes briefly and it feels like the car turned itself off for a split second, and the car gives a pretty hard jerk.
Was I overboosting? I know that on my previous car, I could program in a overboost safety. If the car overboosted past a set limit, it would cut all the injectors, which feels like the car just dropped a giant anchor (it jerks hard).
It seems like anytime I encounter something odd, I'm at half throttle. Car never complains when it's floored...so one solution would be to drive with the car floored everywhere :P
in all seriousness though, any ideas on what happened? Haven't run VAGCOM yet but the damned thing never picks up any codes....well, it now throws a radio missing code, now that I've put in an Appradio :P
In this case, I saw it as a "free speeding" opportunity. If I keep him within sight, yet he's well ahead of me, if he passes a cop, I'll pick up the instant-on radar and slow down, plus I won't be the cop's target, he will be. :hihi:
So I give the car the beans, but I don't floor it, because I want to keep some space. And then around 130mph, I hit some kind of fuel cut - the CEL flashes briefly and it feels like the car turned itself off for a split second, and the car gives a pretty hard jerk.
Was I overboosting? I know that on my previous car, I could program in a overboost safety. If the car overboosted past a set limit, it would cut all the injectors, which feels like the car just dropped a giant anchor (it jerks hard).
It seems like anytime I encounter something odd, I'm at half throttle. Car never complains when it's floored...so one solution would be to drive with the car floored everywhere :P
in all seriousness though, any ideas on what happened? Haven't run VAGCOM yet but the damned thing never picks up any codes....well, it now throws a radio missing code, now that I've put in an Appradio :P