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dannywooly

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Hi all

So covered about 1000 miles in the Masser so far absolutely loving it! But got a little reminder last night just how much power goes through those rear wheels, coming off a roundabout full chat in 2nd then flick into 3rd and woah wiggly back which i surprisingly calmly got under control. Wasn't even damp on the road.

Thing is i've driven diesels for a good few years so at the moment still feels pretty alien to push to the red line normally i potter around under 4000 rpm, but now and again i open her up, the noise in sport manual actually made my ears pop, and required some nurofen when i got home lol!

Just wondered if anyone else has had a little reminder? Especially in the wet easy to spin those rears.
 
2b1ask1

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All part of the brutal fun of these, I had a very sharp reminder on the M25 one wet November Sunday morning taking my lad to rugby, this was my first winter in one and grabbed two gears as the outside lane opened up in front of me, right hand bend, up hill just shy of the J22 on the concrete; it snapped sideways and almost before I could react the traction control got it pointing the right way!!!! In triple figures it could very easily have been a disaster. As it was it was a sobering lesson not to switch off the MSP on the road EVER. To date I have only ever switched it off on the track where it does get in the way of a good drive :D
 
Trev Latter

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I own a 3200, so therefore I live in constant fear of the car trying to kill me with it's power delivery when it starts to spool up.
 
Trev Latter

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It's a combination of hair trigger throttle (much improved with contactless throttle pot) and zero to full boost in an approx 200 rpm rev range. Bit like a two stroke really, I guess.
 
namaste

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dannywooly said:
Hi all

So covered about 1000 miles in the Masser so far absolutely loving it! But got a little reminder last night just how much power goes through those rear wheels, coming off a roundabout full chat in 2nd then flick into 3rd and woah wiggly back which the MSP calmly got under control whilst I jammed the steering wheel in the other direction. Wasn't even damp on the road.

Thing is i've driven diesels for a good few years so at the moment still feels pretty alien to push to the red line normally i potter around under 4000 rpm, but now and again i open her up, the noise in sport manual actually made my ears pop, and required some nurofen when i got home lol!

Just wondered if anyone else has had a little reminder? Especially in the wet easy to spin those rears.
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Corrected that for you ;)
 
allandwf

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Trev Latter said:
It's a combination of hair trigger throttle (much improved with contactless throttle pot) and zero to full boost in an approx 200 rpm rev range. Bit like a two stroke really, I guess.
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It is lack of wide open throttle that eventually causes that. The ECU will narrow the band over time if it does not see wide open from time to time, see it pays to thrash her occasionally! A throttle reset will also sort it for a while.
 
Trev Latter

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allandwf said:
It is lack of wide open throttle that eventually causes that. The ECU will narrow the band over time if it does not see wide open from time to time, see it pays to thrash her occasionally! A throttle reset will also sort it for a while.
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Don't worry, it sees full throttle regularly enough to stop it narrowing the band


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conaero

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Funny you say that I nearly put the Strad through a hedge last night.

Was enthusiastically turing into my road at midnight (and quite tired) and misjudged the turning.....thought, Ill make that and didn't!

Thankfully it was RWD and they were still on the tarmac as the fronts had done and Hodroyd and were heading for the ditch.

The brakes did stop immense, it was the ABS that cut in that fecked it all up!

Lesson learned...brake then turn, not the other way round!
 
TheYoungconnoisseur

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welcome to cars that don't suck, also if you on oem pzeros they suck. noise, ride, dry, wet, track, you name it. put on some supersports or ps2 and it is permanently glued to the tarmac
 
alfatwo

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Trev Latter said:
Don't worry, it sees full throttle regularly enough to stop it narrowing the band


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Try turning everything off Trev, you can spin the rear wheels up in third at about 100 especially on five year old Pirelli's

Make sure your pointing straight at the time and its not damp ;)

Dave
 
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