Right, because those are the negatives, while the ones without gold underneath the entire thing are the actual resistors. There are really only THREE sets of resistors, as each one has a + and - connection. Truly you could just bend the brushes on the ones without gold underneath them and get the same effect, but you should do them all for consistency as you want them all to be at the same height so they rub the same.
I have to say, you are impressing the Hell out of me. What do you do for a living?
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ORIGINAL: GidyupGo I know. It got so bad that they took that blown stang on a tour of Nam to educate the boys on how to drive them. They even raced it down the flight deck of the Midway I believe. That car sold on ebay a few years back. It was still a monster. They took 3 of em over there, but wrecked 2 of them. Helocoptor dropped one of them.
Ah the LAWMAN! Truly one bad ass Stang in every sense of the word. Goldberg (former wrestler?) owns the sole remaining Lawman now. The thing sounds almost like a Nitro Funny Car
ORIGINAL: GidyupGo I know. It got so bad that they took that blown stang on a tour of Nam to educate the boys on how to drive them. They even raced it down the flight deck of the Midway I believe. That car sold on ebay a few years back. It was still a monster. They took 3 of em over there, but wrecked 2 of them. Helocoptor dropped one of them.
Ah the LAWMAN! Truly one bad ass Stang in every sense of the word. Goldberg (former wrestler?) owns the sole remaining Lawman now. The thing sounds almost like a Nitro Funny Car
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That's it. I remember it was blue. Did he buy it off of ebay? I didn't stay with the auction to see if it brought the reserve. Imagine that thing flying down a flightdeck.
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Lets see. Bend wipers. No thanks. Install a new travel stop so the relaxed travel is a few mm less. Hmmmmmm Sounds like a better way instead of bending wipers. Soon the carbon will be worn away from too much pressure from misbent wipers. Forget the lag, how about the new dead spots and undesired quirky response from missing resistance material? Put a travel stop on mine and now its fully micro adjustable with no bending of wipers. Hows that for a modified mod?
I don't see how bending the brushes so that they come out farther will make any differene in wear of the resistance material. It will probably make a difference after 500,000 miles. If it does before, then I'll buy a new pedal, its 44$.
I don't see how bending the brushes so that they come out farther will make any differene in wear of the resistance material. It will probably make a difference after 500,000 miles. If it does before, then I'll buy a new pedal, its 44$.
I agree. What's $44? It may wear, I repeat MAY wear more if the actual tips of the wipers (brushes) were rubbing on the carbon instead of the smoothness of the long part of them. Sort of like rubbing a cactus needle against your hand, or rubbing your hand against the actual point. Depends on how sharp-hard the tips are or how soft-hard the carbon is. Gotta be somewhat hard (carbon) for repeated use.
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i'd buy 3 of them. do you guys see, that it just improves the delay of pushing the pedal a litle further. if you say no! to this mod is like saying no! to a short trought shifter. works similar. i would defently do it since my is an auto and from a roll i think it would really improve. even lauch the car you may be able to lauch a little better without power braking at the track. i know what im doing on sunday
By changing the angle of the brushes, we are changing the area where the brushes contact the track. My question is what happens if we adjust these brushes too far and they contact the Plates on the other side of the track. this would happen under a WOT scenario. I have modded your pic to clarify my question.
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I like Rheostat more. Adjusts current and has to do with resistance. But then you knew that.
Exactly! It's the same as your i/p dimmer "switch", which is a rheostat. The closer you get to one end, the less resistance there is.
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WTF - I can't get my head around this. I'm gonna have to go in there and take a look at this thing. What I can't grasp is exactly how these brushes are moving ACROSS the strips when your pushing DOWN on the pedal. I know there will be some lateral brush movement as the brush arm flattens. So how does FLATTENING the brush INCREASE it's lateral movement? Or is it just SHIFTING the area of lateral movrment, while keeping the area the same?
Which way does the brush move across the strip when you press the pedal - TOWARD the gold plate or AWAY from it?
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RE: DIY THROTTLE RESPONSE MOD (MUST SEE!) - 
i'd buy 3 of them. do you guys see, that it just improves the delay of pushing the pedal a litle further. 
i know what im doing on sunday 
