He didn't say it stayed in 1st gear, it might change up!
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12 years ago
It would help if you elaborated on that comment.
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12 years ago
Where is 'here', in your case? - Davey.
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12 years ago
Defensive driving requires that you take precautions to allow for the driver who does not do what they should.
Colin Bignell
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Slowing through the gears dates back to the days of rod operated drum brakes. If you managed to get those to slow you in a straight line, you were either quite lucky or a very good and extremely patient mechanic.
Colin Bignell
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ISTR comments about one F1 driver nursing it home recently doing such things, but that was very much an exception.
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all modern EFI cars will cut fuel completely on throttle OFF except when the engine is idling..like er..coasting.
correct.
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12 years ago
suggest you watch an F1 race.
how DO you think they charge the KERS?
How DO you think they are already on the throttle mid corner as well.
Engine marking is part of the package. You always change down to keep revs in the max power band whilst braking as well.
Same goes for anyone really trying in a road car.
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12 years ago
It is the full story - fuel is cut off except when revs fall to idle speed.
under engine braking that doesn't normally happen.
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main cause of brake fade is overheated pads glazing over. Then secondary effects are water in the brake fluid turning to steam or the brake fluid itself boiling. that leads to a 'long pedal'
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12 years ago
Be a very strange idle mechanism if it did. It would need to be capable of 'opening the throttle' well beyond anything needed. I can just imagine all the law suits in the US with this car...
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12 years ago
I do, frequently.
Charging the KERS involves using a generator as part of the braking system, but it does not use the engine.
Same as on a road car, I don't see the problem.
Agreed, as I stated earlier, but that doesn't mean that the engine is used as a brake.
Agreed.
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If it only came back on at idle speed, the engine would stall.
Depends on what speeds you're talking about.
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Brake fluid is changed as part of a routine service these days so shouldn't have any water in it. Nor will it boil ever on a road car - even with the discs red hot. If it does you've neglected the servicing.
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12 years ago
I don't think even an XJS would change up at idle.
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12 years ago
Well, quite.
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I suggest you go and get some proper performance driving tuition before you pontificate about it in public.
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I am aghast..
They *always* use the engine as part of the braking.
The aero does more, the brakes do still more.
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12 years ago
nursing is an exception, but not using the engine as part of braking.
if you watch ANY race with in car cameras you can hear the engine note..NEVER is it 'coasting in neutral'- in fact neutral is very hard to find on a paddle shift.
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It doesn't mean it isn't part of it either.