So what  you're saying is : If it starts to show signs of detonation,
floor it.

Does this count as detonation?
I had the fastest West on Highway 30 West about three years ago.
At 85 MPH it went Diesel on me, started blowing oil (lucky my rear window
was clean, lot of it wound up there) the oil light didn't come on for
another five minutes. I collapsed the ring lands on # 4 cylinder, scored
the cylinder, broke a couple of rings on other cylinders.
I put a quart of oil in every 35-40 miles and drove it 250 miles home.
Sure broke them tailgaters.

This little racing trip cost me about $400.00 in parts and twenty hours
sweat equity.

On Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:18:47 -0400 Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
writes:
> The actual power increase is minimal. The ultimate goal is to richen
> the
> mixture slightly to avoid detonation, burned valves and melted
> pistons.
>
> Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On
> Behalf
> Of Mark Ingalls
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:17 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: full throttle switch boost?
>
>
> If you have a digitool hooked up when the full throttle switch is
> made up,
> you will see the volts from the 02 sensor go from .5 or so,  to .8
> or so.
> This shows a slightly richer mixture for more power.
>
>
> Mark Ingalls
> 85 GL
> 75 Beetle
>
>
>
>
>
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