snellgrove wrote:
its better, but not gone completely.. things I most notice are:
going on the throttle in 1st gear, with very minimal throttle input, the car jumps into life from no-throttle ..and races away very powerfully.. its like a very sensitive throttle (which I like) but the car doesnt seem to know how to do slow acceleration ?!?! so it really sucks around town.. I've been experimenting today when in traffic, like moving my foot what feels like tiny millimetres... like really slow movements, slowly adding more and more throttle, VERY GENTLY... but it still does it.
Most curious!
Question to you Snellgrove, do you have the MX-3 V6 GS or the relatively sedate RS? I'm afraid I don't know, but if you have one of those 130bhp powerplants under your bonnet, that would explain (in part) why it's so "trigger happy".
Having said that, that really should not compute.
Last time I had a car that kangaroo-ed so blatantly, it was a rear engined Skoda Rapid Coupe - with a sticking accelerator cable.
Lubrication - and eventually a new accelerator cable solved that problem.
I wonder whether that has something to do with it?
"Blackbird" has definitely improved in crawling manners, and I am attributing that to Optimax.
Cold starts are improved, and driving away from cold is far les less hesitant than it was before - especially with the few below zero morning starts that I have had in the late wintery weather over here recently.
Two peculiar anomalies I did notice since early morning starts in bitterly freezing cold weather with Optimax are as follows:
*** Strange powerful "fuel like" smell on start up first thing in the morning. It is NOT exactly petrol, but has a vague aroma closely resembling it. Ditto when I start for home in the evenings.
Wasn't there when I wasn't using Optimax.
*** In the past, cold starts on a freezing morning have always created clouds of thick water vapour (steam?) - no matter what car I have owned.
With the Optimax, that is NOT happening. (But I do get that strange smell). Why no clouds of steam? Is that because I am getting a better burn?
Other things I have noticed;
That first gear plat spot is only apparent when the engine is stone cold. Once it warms up it disappears completely.
Smoother quieter acceleration, definitely reduced vibration from the engine in virtually all modes of operation.
I won't make any silly claims about the car being faster, but I have noticed response times when overtaking seem better. This may be an illusion brought about by the quietness of the engine, coupled with what has to be improved response times from pushing the pedal to the metal.
In the MPG stakes, no percieved change so far, but these have been the coldest days ever since I got my hands on this beauty. I don't expect to see any MPG gains this cycle. Last time I drove a car in weather this icy cold, my MPG dropped sharpish. I do a lot of short journeys.
However, something else I did notice is that the engine idle speed never dreams of faltering - like it used to (sometimes - albeit rarely) when I was using 95 RON. It doesnt matter how many power draining devices I turn on, the idle speed stays where it belongs. With Regular I had many a situation where the idle speed dropped so low, the car would vibrate like a diesel, and it was easy to stall on take off.
There's something in "that thar" Optimax! Dunno what, but i'm keeping a beady eye on it's use in my car.
So far, so good.
The experiment continues.
should be interesting, but it means I can feel the pedals 100% and read that feedback from the accelerator pedal, (if there is any) but for sure, I'll know how gently I'm moving the pedal.
sure you get more torque, but..... I like to rev my engine hard, and use the BHP rather than the torque.. I find my very un-torquey 1.8 is perfectly fine round town too, -apart from its jumpy, trigger happy, crazy unrelaxed style!
once you do they fly, !!!!! had real fun 