My car (2005 Toyota Corolla CE, manual transmission, lightweight
engine) has a very responsive gas pedal, much more than any car I've
ever driven. What I mean is, pushing the accelerator just a tiny bit
will push the engine up past 3,000 RPM when not in gear, but it seems
like beyond that point, pushing it more has very little effect,
especially when the car is in gear. Put another way, all the control
is in the first little bit of physical distance on the accelerator.
This makes it very difficult to apply enough gas to keep the car from
stalling when pulling out without revving the engine up very high,
which will eventually burn my clutch out early.
What I'd like to do is make the control range a little longer, so that
I have maybe an inch or two for control.
Someone said I should just adjust the spring to apply less tension on
the pedal. That's not what I'm after; it's already soft enough. The
dealer said they could move the range, so that it would be just as
responsive but I would have to press deeper to get there. That's also
not what I'm after. I want the gas pedal to respond immediately, just
as it does now, but I want to have to press it a longer distance to
get the same response from the engine. I've even had people suggest
that that's the way cars are; but I've driven several cars with manual
transmissions, both new and old, and none of them are like this.
I will be satisfied with an answer that tells me how to fix this (even
if it requires that I have someone else do it for me), although I'll
be happy with any sort of informational comments. I'd prefer some
small adjustment, or perhaps a replacement part I can order, but if
this can be done, I'll take the advice in whatever form it comes in.
Let me know if the price is too low. I would think that the answer
would be relatively easy to find, if it's out there, but I can adjust
the price if it seems too low. |
Request for Question Clarification by
sublime1-ga
on
09 Dec 2005 14:36 PST
jshuma...
I had the same problem with another japanese-built car, a Datsun,
and resolved it by adding a second, identical, return spring to the
valve on the carburetor. This made the pedal feel correspondingly
harder, not softer, so it matched the strength of my calf muscle
and allowed me to more easily and subtley vary the engine rpms.
It didn't lengthen the travel, but accomplished essentially the
same thing. You could also try finding a different spring which
would be about twice as tight as the standard spring to begin
with.
Let me know where this takes you...
sublime1-ga
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