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Re: I have a sports car!

To: "St.John, Kenneth" <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com>,
Subject: Re: I have a sports car!
From: Dean Rayner <dean_rayner@mac.com>
Date: 20 Jul 2001 17:10:05 +0100
On Friday, July 20, 2001 4:37 pm, St.John, Kenneth <ken.stjohn@hexcel.com> 
wrote:
>Something great happened yesterday - my accelerator cable broke!  I was able
>to jerry-rig it to get home.   During my slow trip home, I began to wonder
>if my throttle was getting full throw before the cable broke.  Turns out,
>the way the linkage was attached I was never even opening the second barrel
>of my down-draft Weber.  No wonder I seemed to lack power.  


The exact same thing happend to me in my MKIII spit. (UK spec)

The limit screw on the throttle linkage only allowed the butterflys to open 
half way.  The DPO had been running like that for years.

Dean.

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