At 10:48 PM 4/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>[...]
>ps - I was reading a diag text on what codes are for MAP malfunction. It
>said 14
>meant MAP sensor reading too high or MAP sensor reading too low. When mine
>failed - it just stayed in the middle at 3.0V - not too high or too low -
>still
>bad and no codes whatsoever. What a stupid program they wrote for our
>computers. The foreign cars are light years ahead in that respect -
>especially
>compared to Honda's.
I dunno. As a programmer, I would have to agree about having an
unchecked condition like that, but as a hot rodder, its holes like that
which might allow us to get away with stuff. :-) If the computer had
check after check built in, it might not let us get away with anything; a
stupid computer is probably easier to fool. :-)
-Jon-
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