[Shotimes] Stiff go pedal - CHEAP FIX

[Kurt Metros]

Leigh,

Hats off to you!  I've had the same problem with my 94 since I bought
it.  I just naturally figured it was the cable sticking....actually, I
nearly bought one from Al Fitz last week.  Upon reading your post I went
to my parts bin and dug out the TB from my old 89 and sure enough the
spring was smaller.  Swapped out the whole TB in about 10 minutes and
was amazed at the difference.  Now I've just got to get used to giving
it less pressure to make it go!

Kurt
www.kurtmetros.com


>It turned out to be the throttle springs on the throttle body. 
>There are 
>three of them wrapped together, but they were like 30% in diameter 
>THICKER than my 89. (And torsional stiffness increase by the fourth 
>power of diameter). I believe the number were 1.3 mm and 
>1.6mm. (1.6/1.3)^4 = 2.5 TIMES AS STIFF!! Took me 10 min to 
>change it once I got one for $10 from Tim Dahm. The 
>car was much easier to drive and it just "naturally" revved about 1000 
>rpm when I drove it. :-)