So...I had three of my buddies in from out of town this weekend. All car guys so we dragged the A12 and my '74 Duster out and went riding around on Saturday before the beer started flowing and curtailed any further automotive related activities...
I'm now going to interrupt this story with a reminder. The regulars here will remember that a few months ago I was out beating on Bambi and had the throttle stick wide open. A rather harrowing experience. I thought that I had corrected the problem with the throttle cable. Well, apparently not...now back to the story...
So we're headed down a somewhat desolate stretch of road going over to visit the guy with the Daytona, Superbird, Boss 302, Rebel Machine, etc... After slowly rolling away from a stop sign I laid into the loud pedal. Banged second and am now grinning from ear-to-ear. The grin quickly went away as I realized I was no longer in control of the air & fuel flow. Couldn't pull the pedal off of the floor and was quickly running out of useable RPM. Ronnie Sox time again. Safely negotiated the 2-3 power shift and turned my attention back to the stuck gas pedal. Nope. Short-shifted 3rd under full power and went back to trying to unstick the throttle. With my left foot mashing the brake pedal with all of my might and my right foot desperately tugging at the gas pedal I was fighting a losing battle. Reached down and killed the ignition. Still couldn't unstick the pedal. My friends in the Duster behind me later told me that they thought that they saw raw fuel coming out of the tail pipes at this point; they did. It must have filled up the mufflers because just as I was getting it slowed down it backfired and the resultant explosion sounded like a bomb went off under the car. Lost both mufflers. Just blew them wide-a$$ open. They said the fireworks display under the car and out the tail pipes was rather impressive when viewed from behind... Great.
So I spent the rest of the weekend with them making "Puff the Magic Dragon" jokes about my beloved RR... :toetap:
I'll figure out what to do about the exhaust later; right now I'm in the market for a new throttle cable...
:jester:
I'm now going to interrupt this story with a reminder. The regulars here will remember that a few months ago I was out beating on Bambi and had the throttle stick wide open. A rather harrowing experience. I thought that I had corrected the problem with the throttle cable. Well, apparently not...now back to the story...
So we're headed down a somewhat desolate stretch of road going over to visit the guy with the Daytona, Superbird, Boss 302, Rebel Machine, etc... After slowly rolling away from a stop sign I laid into the loud pedal. Banged second and am now grinning from ear-to-ear. The grin quickly went away as I realized I was no longer in control of the air & fuel flow. Couldn't pull the pedal off of the floor and was quickly running out of useable RPM. Ronnie Sox time again. Safely negotiated the 2-3 power shift and turned my attention back to the stuck gas pedal. Nope. Short-shifted 3rd under full power and went back to trying to unstick the throttle. With my left foot mashing the brake pedal with all of my might and my right foot desperately tugging at the gas pedal I was fighting a losing battle. Reached down and killed the ignition. Still couldn't unstick the pedal. My friends in the Duster behind me later told me that they thought that they saw raw fuel coming out of the tail pipes at this point; they did. It must have filled up the mufflers because just as I was getting it slowed down it backfired and the resultant explosion sounded like a bomb went off under the car. Lost both mufflers. Just blew them wide-a$$ open. They said the fireworks display under the car and out the tail pipes was rather impressive when viewed from behind... Great.
So I spent the rest of the weekend with them making "Puff the Magic Dragon" jokes about my beloved RR... :toetap:
I'll figure out what to do about the exhaust later; right now I'm in the market for a new throttle cable...
:jester:
