Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:23:53 +0100 From: Alan Hamilton <alanghamiltonnopsamternet.com> Subject: Re: 9-5: Why no tubo gauge?
Thanks Mathias. Very interesting. This implies that the Aero is significantly different under the skin than the others in the range. Mathias wrote: > These cars have Trionic version 7. This system does not work as other > management systems. Trionic 5 for example, tries to regulate towards a > specific boost level => boost will almost always be the same for > identical situations => you can look at a boost gauge and conclude that > things seem to work as usual... T7 tries to achive a predetermined > airmass/combustion. Boost is one of the weapons used to get the correct > airmass/cumbustion. This means boost can be very different (depending on > air temp etc etc) for the same output power => you can have a boost > gauge but you would never know what the correct or normal boost level > should be => a boost gauge is useless. Hence, no boost gauge. I also > thing this is a result of a policy rather than a technical thing, the > average driver does not care about boost levels.... > > Its not so easy to explain these things, I hope you understand what I > mean. > > Ok? > > /Mathias > > Steven Stern wrote: > > > > The TV commercial shows it, but it's not there... What happened to the > > turbo boost gauge on the 9-5? Would it be more useful than a tach (on > > an automatic)? > > > > --Steve Stern > > SYSOP > > http://go.compuserve.com/generalhelp > > http://go.compuserve.com/softwaresupport > > http://go.compuserve.com/viruscentral
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