as for safety, we are talking about an air idle valve. It can't raise the RPM more than about 100RPM. That's all it does and the limitation is the air valve itself. Not the control unit. So safety is not Really a concern.

You can't tell that to the woman who's car I replaced the proper IACV on. She and I thought all was done. She left. As she approached the end of the street she took her foot off the pedal and wham - the car suddenly wanted to accelerate excessively. Being her car was a turbocharged engine, she would have had a real hard time stopping the car. Fortunately it was a standard transmission and simply pressing down on the clutch pedal meant the engine could not pull the car forward any longer. Your dependency on assumed safety is an assumption I would not want to make.

I need the help.

That's what we've been saying all along.

 

Back in 2006 my wife test drove a G-6 (I think it was - it was a Saturn). She got going onto the freeway and hammered the throttle to test its acceleration. When she took her foot off the pedal the car kept going faster and faster. She had no idea what to do. I was in the back seat, the salesman in the passenger seat. I said "Put it in neutral". She did. That's when the engine settled down.

Now - believe me when I say this: There are people who don't know how to react to an emergency situation such as a run-away engine. Just because you and I are smart enough to put it in neutral or turn the engine off doesn't mean the next person is going to know that. I was at a stop sign when it was my turn to go. A young girl approached the four way stop, and, realizing her mistake, she cupped her hands over her mouth and rolled right through that stop. Had the rest of us not noticed she wasn't stopping someone would have gotten hit. You're a smart driver. Not all drivers are that smart. Just YouTube some of those stupid drivers and you'll see a whole lot of people who should not be behind the wheel of an automobile. No matter how much of a "Car Guy" or girl they are.

 

I actually know pretty well how this thing works. You guys are making assumptions and I understand you don't know everything I know because I will not disclose everything out in a forum simply because I don't want my idea stolen.

as for safety, we are talking about an air idle valve. It can't raise the RPM more than about 100RPM. That's all it does and the limitation is the air valve itself. Not the control unit. So safety is not Really a concern.

there are several companies making components for this specific cars and obviously other older cars.

the design will obviously be tested before released.

First of all tested by who and to what standards? How is safety not really a concern when it is something connected to a car engine? You definitely dont have any sort of an engineering background and havent worked with any engineers, at least not any good ones or you would know how everything is a concern because it could fail in unexpected ways. Whos to say that the device isnt faulty and starts rapidly opening and closing the valve meaning that at idle the rpm is all over the place which would make fine control of the throttle for parking etc impossible. Or what if you "test" the device and everything is fine but some built products have a tendency at low rpm to suddenly cause the car to accelerate, not very useful for parking is it. You obviously dont have any experience designing electronics or realise all the ways they can fail, them failing does not always mean it just stops working or goes on fire, it the device fails anything that it controls could behave in erratic or random ways.

Because I understand this takes some work that is beyond my capabilities

It is beyond your abilities but you still made a prototype?

A micro controller is definitely a way to do this but step one is to completely understand how it works. right?

So you admitted you dont completely understand how it works

All the owners mod them.

There is a big difference between modding a car by tuning it or improving or replacing the mechanical components as they are generally not too difficult if you can source the parts but modding the electronics is something totally different because they can behave in unexpected ways if improperly designed. Personally I wouldnt trust electronics designed by some random person on the internet in a car.

several companies making components for this specific cars

These companies most likely have a team of engineers not just one guy who doesnt fully understand what he is trying to do. If it was so easy and if there was such a high demand for it dont you think a company would have done it by now?

 

To answer you and the person above.
It's a 1980 model that is still very popular and unique. The cars exist. There is a huge used parts market. There is a financial potential here and I also had some people contact me.

i am trying to find the right person to work with.

When I attempted to start my own venture, a friend of mine (owner of a successful company dedicated to generators and power planrs) told me: for people doing a job, hire people. For people really creating business and raising customers look for a partner.

 

Rich kids will pay only $400 for a modification that produces a little more power and more noise from their car engine.
They don't care that the modification produces smoggy black smoke in the exhaust each time they quickly press the go pedal.
The modification is already available and almost all cars owned by rich kids have it, why yours?

 

$400? Is that all it costs? Geez, where have I been?

I think you're talking about Diesel motors. I hate those mods. I wish more states would outlaw those.

 

Few people are driving 1980 cars that are 41 years old.

 

Can there be a 1980 car that ISN'T 41 years old?

 

A few brand new 41 years old cars made 41 years ago are found in a barn.

 

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