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From: piner@pur-phy.UUCP (Richard Piner)
Newsgroups: rec.autos,rec.autos.tech,comp.misc
Subject: Re: '86 Camaro Computer System
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Date: Tue, 12-May-87 17:12:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 12 17:12:55 1987
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In article <581@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>                                                  The ECMs do,
>however, have a maximum speed of 85 MPH.  I have a friend that
>works for Goodyear that exlained that.  The FBI was outfitting some
>Chevy Caprices for high speed tires and came across that fact.
>They had to go back to GM to get some cutsom ROMs burned that would
>let the cars go faster.  Tney needed to do that so they could catch
>people with older analog cars or imports (grin).
>
Gee, they must have let one of those ROMs slip through. Just to
see what she would do, I opened up my new '86 Cavalier and the
needle went right past 85. The speedometer will go past that,
but there are no numbers to read. In fact, the speedometer reads
neagtive when backing up. Anyway, she was still accelerating
around 90-95 when I backed off. God must have been smiling on
me, because after I slowed down to 55, I passed THREE speed traps
in the space of a mile.

				Richard Piner
				piner@pur-phy.UUCP