[ultraclyde]

Took the Stang on it's first interstate weekend getaway this weekend. Ran about 2hours up to Canton GA, north of Atlanta. Overall, The car ran great, cruising at 80-90 in the HOV through town. Scarily enough, i was mostly running with traffic.
I had a strange thing happen twice, however. The first time I was headed up Sat, had been cruising 75-80, and downshifted to 4th to get around a slower car in traffic. After the clutch was fully engaged and I was accelating smoothly, it was like the throttle snapped closed for a split second. Even my wife noticed. I thought maybe the AC kicked on or something, but it was a significant punch, nothing the AC should have done.
Coming home yesterday, I had been running 80 coming through downtown and suddenly had to come to a near stop for a wreck. I got down in 2nd and accelated away from the initial slowdown, and it did the same thing again. Clutch was fully engaged, foot away from the pedal, and accelarting briskly, around 3500 rpm. It was a hard, splitsecond, loss of power. It happened so fast I didn't catch if the tach dropped. It was more significant than a cylinder misfire.

I haven't been able to recreate it, and it hasn't happend before.

Anybody else seen this? I got the distinct impression It might be tied to the ETC?

 

[ultraclyde]

yeah, I've bounced off the rev limiter once, and it was kind of like that, but just for an instant

 

[ultraclyde]

hazmat-I'm in the mid 4ks on mine as well. The time I found the rev limiter, I dropped into first to go by a truck that had pulled over and stopped in front of me. I was a little pissed and let the tires do the talking. It hit just I was starting to shift to 2nd. I hit second and the power came back on like a swift kick in the arse. Fairly exciting, but I sure don't want to do it again!

 

[ultraclyde]

Glad to know I'm not the only one. I guess... Driving home last night on the interstate, I tried to recreate the problem with no luck. She pulled like a champ. tried different gears, downshifting out of cruise, etc,etc, and it was fine. (did you know you can catch 3rd at 80??!!) Interesting to note that last night it was cool, while this weekend it was up in the 90's. somebody else mentioned hot temps when it happened, I wonder if it's heat related.

I'v also noticed a barely-there blip on slow accelartion, but mines at 2250-2500. It seems to be smoothing out with time, and it's weak enough I can't swear it's not my imagination...

 

[ultraclyde]

Yeah, otto, hell, i can't even recreate it!!! But I guess, that's kind of a good thing. Not too common...

 

[ultraclyde]

That'd be greeeaaaatttt.....Thaaaaaannnnnks.


Damn TPS!