Who drives your Cobra?

[five pt oh]

does anyone make an adjustable govenor that can be added to any car?

With my 2005 GT, I have a flash tuner. It is able to make all sorts of adjustments to the factory OBC. The idea is to make the car faster, but you can use it to reduce top speed (all the way down to 60mph) or you could use it to limit the RPMs (not let it go over 3000 rpms).

Obviously a 2005 Ford is going to have all sorts of factory computers that nobody would include when building a cobra, but is there something you can put on a basic V8 that allows mph or rpm adjustments?

That sure would be a nice thing to have for those with 16yr olds around the house who may try to sneak it out.

[Plums]

I think if I was letting someone drive mine (if I ever finish it), I'd just zap in a tune with heaps less timing..... that should reduce the chance of a power-induced bingle!!!

In years gone by, when transport companies were moving my EFI Torana from state to state, I'd set the limiter to a lowly 2500 rpm. It was enough revs to get it on and off the truck, but not enough to thrash it to death.

[sambo]

Originally Posted by Plums

In years gone by, when transport companies were moving my EFI Torana from state to state, I'd set the limiter to a lowly 2500 rpm. It was enough revs to get it on and off the truck, but not enough to thrash it to death.

Plums - is it possible to have a "switch" like this added to the LSx engines? I've got a similar feature on my GTI's aftermarket software, operated through the indicator stalk. I imagine you can do it via a temporary re-flash but most of us don't have the luxury (or the know-how), plus it's not very convenient.

[Plums]

Originally Posted by sambo

Plums - is it possible to have a "switch" like this added to the LSx engines? I've got a similar feature on my GTI's aftermarket software, operated through the indicator stalk. I imagine you can do it via a temporary re-flash but most of us don't have the luxury (or the know-how), plus it's not very convenient.

There's no real way of flicking a switch and changing tables in the LS1 PCM (or E series PCM's for that matter).

That said, I just thought of a neat way to have a reduced power setting through flicking a switch. My idea will basically reduce timing (set by me in the PCM and MAP referenced), when the switch is flicked. The more I think about this, the better my idea gets. The car would drive normally at low throttle settings, but as the throttle is opened wider more timing will be pulled. In fact, if you drove the car normally, ie. sedately, you wouldn't even know that anything was different.....

This could be great for any LS1 Cobra owners wishing to have a "tame switch" for what ever reason

I'll do some testing and report back this weekend.