corsa_fella
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Registered: 22nd Apr 04
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do they work, does this work? will it kill my car??? who knows hopefully you lot do?
check this out and tell me what you fink http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Street-Racer/fitting-resistor-mod.html
it cost £2.50 and looks like a small piece of wire with an electrical part on it, and they swear blind that it will giv me 5-25 bhp more!
wat surely not on a 1.2 8 v corsa lol
any replies much appreciated
cheers
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
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utter b****cks, makes ure car run richer as far as i know.... not really good
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corsa_fella
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well what i think it does is makes the engine think its run cooler, so surely when i does overheat u wont know because the engine management thinks the engines cool, ifyou know what im gettin at?
all your doing is unplugging the sensor????
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Rileysport
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changing how the ecu reads it
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corsa_fella
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surely if it doesnt do what it said on the tin though you could do them for faulse advertising?
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Rileysport
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either way... i'd avoid
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corsa_fella
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il think il let my mate fit it and see how it turns out sounds like a load of bolloxs to me butwe can only dream of beating scoobs for£2.50
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Rileysport
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yeah dream alright... sat next to various engine bits trying to make it a reality
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walshy_247
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from wot iv heard it keeps ur choke open all the time
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by walshy_247
from wot iv heard it keeps ur choke open all the time
Not quite, but similar... In the end you will knacker your spark plugs prematurely, and you could even risk detenation...
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J da Silva
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chav, fuck it put the idea out of your right away *spanks your bottom*
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cargraphics4u.com
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa_fella
well what i think it does is makes the engine think its run cooler, so surely when i does overheat u wont know because the engine management thinks the engines cool, ifyou know what im gettin at?
all your doing is unplugging the sensor????
Sounds very similar to why my car broke down the day before yesterday! (I don't have one of those resistor things btw) The coolant sensor broke and the engine thought it was running at 7 degrees celcius, so was over compansating by running really rich. The car completely cut out and wouldn't start, had to get the rac out to tow it to a garage and it cost me £80 to get it fixed! I would avoid anything else that casuses teh engine to do similar things personally!
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o0MattE0o
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dont Vauxhall engins run hotter than most other cars any way...
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Trucido
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basically its a resistor and it increases the resitance (obviously) and makes your engine think sumthin etc so it sucks more air in which means more fuel in etc adding a bit more. But you can buy a resistor for about 50p i wud imagine
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blundey
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Id advise against this also. When my mate had an induction kit installed he had know where to put the sensor...so instead we just went to maplins and plugged one of these resistors in. Think they cost 7p. Took it for a test drive...and the following was observed:
The engine got to a seriously high temerature in busy traffic!
In first gear it produced what felt like a flat spot....it would pull off then we would loose power for a split second...then it kicked back in...this was to say very dangerous at roundabouts etc..
The resistor is telling the ECU that the air comming in the car is cold dense air....that the ecu compensates for this and gives the engine more fuel to burn.
Try the resistor mod by all means...but after using it for one drive, turn the engine off, disconnect the battery, and take out 1 or 2 of your spark plugs...and have a look at whats going on  U will notice what im talking about 
Anyway we took the resistor off and plgged the sensor after the MASS in the intake pipe and everything from there on ran fine.
A big no no IMO
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