bigbravedave
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| posted on 3/9/12 at 07:23 AM |
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Tin top (Fiesta)- foot on the floor isn't full throttle?!
The wifes got a 1.3 fiesta mk6? (the first of the boxy shape, 52 plate) it's always been bionicaly slow with 60hp or so.
at the weekend with 3 up and 3 suitcases, foot on the floor on the m62 climb out of leeds it wasn't doing anymore than 70 in 5th or 75 if you
dropped it to 4th.
I washed it last night and just wanted to check that full throttle on the pedal pulled the cable to full throttle on the body. and err it
didn't, not by a long way! (it's only been like this for 3 years) I adjusted the cable to get the most travel that I can and its still 5mm
from the stop at the throttle body end with the pedal on the floor, and noticeably quicker!
The car has got an early recall bracket on a bracket under the pedal to stop the floor mat catching that also prevents an 8th of travel.
Im genuinely shocked that with the cable adjusted to literally no slack it can’t achieve full throttle at the body. I think im going to have to linish
1/8” off the back of the plastic throttle pedal to achieve it!
Has anyone come accross this before. I started looking in Fiesta forums but soon realised Im 20 years to old to understand the lingo!
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adithorp
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| posted on 3/9/12 at 09:21 AM |
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I've come across this. It was a customers car that they complaned didn't have a lot of poke. I remade (might have just bent it) the
bracket on the throttle body so it could get full throttle. Went like stink after (compared to before).
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
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