[DeTomaso] Non-Opening Secondaries

[pantdino at aol.com]

This happened to me when I first got my car in 1989.
I was used to Alfas, early Toyota Supra, and other rather low-powered 
cars, which also happened to have rather short throttle pedal throws.
Being the cautious type I drove it the first several times up to about 
3500rpm, using up to what I assumed was full throttle, based on how 
long the pedal throws had been on my other cars.
One day I discovered that I had only been using half throttle, at which 
point I also discovered that the engine is very happy to rev to 5000.  
I remember thinking, "holy $hit!"


Jim




-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
To: John Taphorn <jtaphorn at kingwoodcable.com>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Sat, 30 May 2009 5:27 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Non-Opening Secondaries










John Taphorn skrev:
> Dan
>
> I'll apologize ahead of time for perhaps being too basic.  However, 
with
> mechanical secondaries, they will only open if the primaries are 
opened
> first.  To clarify, if you only try to manually open the secondaries 
by hand
> twisting the their linkage, they will not open.

I know at least one owner on this forum that thought his pantera was a
bit sluggish. He tried a lot of things, including borrowing my 650DP.

After a while he found out that he didn't push the pedal hard enough to
open the secondaries ;-)

>
> This has been in the back of my mind since this thread was started.
>
> JT

Cheers,
Thomas
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