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(Message started by: Annelk on Apr 20^th, 2006, 10:18am)

Title: weird Close Encounter??
Post by Annelk on Apr 20^th, 2006, 10:18am

Good morning gents.... I had a weird one off (so far) happening a few days ago.... I was accelerating unusually hard for me, the tachometer suddenly went to zero and the engine power died, but kept running. After about a mile the power was suddenly restored to normal and it has been OK since :o...but I have not tried a flat out acceleration again..... any ideas....??
P.S. I am in Norfolk, but not close to that Radar station that you may have seen on the news causing cars to fail ;)

Title: Re: weird Close Encounter??
Post by Octavian_P on Apr 20^th, 2006, 10:31am

The 2.3 engine (as the rest of the engines for scorpio) has a self built in protection for not over-rev it. It stops the power when you reach about 6.600 rpm. It happend to me twice ;D. It falls to about 1.200 rpm...and gradualy gets the power back.

Title: Re: weird Close Encounter??
Post by Kjetil S on Apr 20^th, 2006, 10:36am

Weird. My 2.0 16v simply stops accelerating when it redlines. It doesn't loose any power.

Title: Re: weird Close Encounter??
Post by sector-9 on Apr 20^th, 2006, 9:41pm

I would suspect the crank sensor as the rev-limiter (which is a function of the ECU software) does not affect the tacho. Having said that, the engine should stop without an input from it - though the 2.3/EEC-V combo use sequential injection so the ECU may be falling back on the camshaft sensor for timing...?

Darren