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Simon-S14

By Simon-S14,
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Strik3r Experienced

Strik3r

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The shut down option sounds like a dangerous one. Eg. You're comitted to a fast corner entry, you steer in hard to find at mid corner you car shuts down causing you to lose drive and power steering. If the compression lock from loss of power doesn't spin you out the lack of power steering will make it hard to recover.

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recipe for a nasty accident.

Accusump + Activation light is same as what I had in mind, though havent worked out quite how to setup a light on it yet. Will have to wait till we have the unit in our possession to set it up. I have one of Paul Ruzic's Engine Monitors that does oil pressure over RPM warnings. As soon as the alarm comes on the sensor that tripped the alarm is displayed in the middle of the screen. If the alarm comes on i know to clutch in straight away and check out whats wrong.

Duncan Grand Master

Duncan

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engine shut down mid corner is no big deal, I have had a motor stall mid corner while racing before.

yes the brake booster will run out within a 2-3 seconds, and yes the steering gets heavier. but it is certainly not some sort of dramatic spin off the track backwards thing - that only happens if the motor locks solid and the clutch is in.

in fact I didn't realise it had stalled for a few seconds among all the fun - certainly not dangerous just unexpected

Dobz Experienced

Dobz

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Obviously it won't happen every time. What i said earlier was a worst case senario that can happen.

And i know using dangerous as a description earlier was a bit much but if you refer it to keeping your car off a wall or off another car it makes more sense.

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juggernaut1 Proficient

juggernaut1

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Your more likely to get rear ended with engine shut down mid corner......VR/VS 5 litre Commodores with stock fuel system used to do this when fuel levels were too low and cornering forces meant a fuel shortage and the computer momentarily shuts the engine down. I know cos I nearly rear ended my brothers Commodore when this happened. Its not like your expecting someone to slow dramatically whilst following them mid corner through the apex.....and its not the easiest place to brake or pull off some fancy steering moves once the car is loaded up through the apex.

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