Disable the power?

find a trusty panelbeater?

shouldn't be too difficult! 😉

and now that we've gone onto two pages without going off topic...

lets speculate as to what Toby did with his SX, and the reason it needs a panelbeater.

i say it has something to do with his recent post to the new guy...

Toby wrote:

Hey Carlos! Welcome, and congrats on the car! And NEVER accelerate around a bend on a public road, please 🙂 Even in the dry. Hope you have many years of SX'ing.

Haha! C'mon veecee, you know me better than that 🙂 Naah man, I want to get the car into showroom condition. So basically dent removal, fixing of chips & scratches, and buffing, etc. Considered a re-spray but it's too risky. Any slight overspray and my car looks like it's been in a prang. Plus, there's nothing like being able to say - this is the original factory paint 🙂

Ok, so rev-limiter it is! I'll let you guys know how I come along with that. The waste-gate thingy sounds easy enough too, but I think if they wanted to go joy-riding, it's too easy for them to temporarily connect it.

Did what I did now the last time... while he is with you write down your Kilo's and stuff that he can see that you are doing so, and you mention to him that you don't want your car driven, and you'll be checking up on it with Tracker.

Yes, I suppose this is not an easy situation. When my car is at Maus. I know they at least test drive the car. And they also tell me that they did drive the car. Then I am happy with that. Yes, I trust them in full. Which I think makes a difference. Also, I am known to them since 1991. But yes, there will come a time when the car must go to another workshop, then we are back to square one.
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Pull one of the injector plugs off. They can move the car but it will limp.

Gary57 wrote:

Pull one of the injector plugs off. They can move the car but it will limp.

Ooh, good idea! or unplug the MAF and hide the connector, that limits them hectically 😛

EVen if you limit the power, to the appy who drives a 1100 uno daily it will still be a fun to joy ride it.

If a panelbeater doesn't wanna sign an indenity that they won't drive your car then you need to go somewhere else. They're not a workshop - so there is absolutely NO reason for them to drive your car man.

Tell them you're running the motor in after a rebuild so NO ONE is allowed to drive the car.

I have some faulty coils you can put it too 😂 Will make the car a missery to drive. 😀

Doc try removing the 1 injector wire or even the MAF wire, it will make an 1100 look like a F1 car.

The problem with disabling the power is that the idiot gets in the car, takes a gap to pull out the shop cause he assumes there is some power, when there isn't, to he basically just pulled out in front of a car that he has no chance in getting out of the way off....

BANG!! there goes a mint S13.

Oh and I'd stay far away from Flirida Panelbeaters.

Also do some homework on Hellopeter before using any pannel beater.

Toby if the work is minor, can't you get one of these mobile companies to come to you to sort it out?

do you have a spare potato?

or when you get a block from there take a spark plug out and bang the gap closed. by the time they figure it out you'll be there to pick up the car anyway. they wont pull in front of a car coz they'll see your car is sick from "idle"

Doctor G wrote:

Oh and I'd stay far away from Flirida

yeah thats what i do too!!!

Unplug the vacuum hose running to the brake booster.

I will post more ideas later.

These are good ideas, keep 'em coming 🙂 I like the limp-mode idea - why not use the built-in rev limiter? 🙂

Naah this job it a bit too big for a mobile fix.

GoldenEagle wrote:

Unplug the vacuum hose running to the brake booster.

I will post more ideas later.

that will lean out cylinder 4 and it wont be that pretty! seen it happen on the porsche challenge cars i was involved with a while back!

As I was dozing off last night dreaming about my car I thought about this...Our cars have A tps right??? Now if you can build a circuit that only alows it to open to 40% or so the car cant really go into boost or high speed for that matter. Controlling the tps means that you control fuel and air levels and that means no ping or over or under fueling...now there is a plan for you!

or you could just set the idle switch to be on idle mode all the time!

I know on our SR's if the water temp sensor is unplugged then the car goes into limp mode. Maybe the CA will do the same.

veecee wrote:

GoldenEagle wrote:

Unplug the vacuum hose running to the brake booster.

I will post more ideas later.

that will lean out cylinder 4 and it wont be that pretty! seen it happen on the porsche challenge cars i was involved with a while back!

I know, I have done it to my own sx. Idle is unstable and the engine cuts if you do not keep the rpm above 700. Driving the car was not as fun either. I spent weeks trying to figure out the problem end a friend of mine asked if there were any problems with vacuum. Low and behold I forgot I unplugged the vacuum line several weeks prior to keep any of the neighborhood kids from taking it for a joy ride.

by "wont be pretty" i meant that it will stuff up the internals of your engine.