With all of the combined wisdom and experience on this site it has taken how many years to learn about the little switch under the clutch pedal that retards the engine?
Where can we go to get honest answers about our cars? We shouldn't have to figure out all of this stuff on our own. Porsche doesn't help. In fact they block access to the real answers every step of the way.
We waste time speculating about the purpose of parts when there is an absolutely clear answer in the hands of the people who designed the damned cars.
I am tired of the lack of information.
End of rant.
What started my rant...
http://www.planet-9.com/cayman-complaints/25405-clutch-delay-switch-defeated-joy.html
Little switch under clutch? Retards engine? What the heck is this all about? Seriously, I'd like to know what you are talking about, and I presume others as well.
The people who designed the damn cars are too busy designing new stuff for you to buy in the future to be on here enlightening you to every detail of how your car works. Plus, they may not know English very well.
Dann gibt es auf Deutsche...
See:
http://www.planet-9.com/cayman-complaints/25405-clutch-delay-switch-defeated-joy.html
brad
This has very little to do with engineers or designers. It is the same argument as Windows or Mac OSX vs. Linux--Closed systems vs. open systems. When we buy a closed, proprietary product like Windows or a Porsche we accept (maybe not happily) the fact that the manufacturer won't tell us everything that we want to know. They have the right to consider things like this to be "trade secrets" and, from the corporate point of view, releasing the information to us owners would also release the information to competitors.
This is exactly the root reason for the proliferation of open source software--like Linux, but I think lightning would strike me dead before openness would ever happen in the auto industry.
Speaking of things you never knew were there, does anyone know what those little speaker grille looking things are on top of the steering column (between the steering wheel and instrument cluster when you look straight down)? They're about an inch long and maybe a little less than half an inch wide.
I never noticed them before. Yesterday morning, I was driving into to work and the run reflected the grill on my instrument panel at just the right angle for me to notice them.
Just about all modern manual transmission cars, and even some automatic transmission cars, have some sort of engine management nonsense to reduce torque or mechanical shock on shifts. BMW is infamous for that horrible clutch delay valve. The Corvette, for example, uses torque management in software so when you shift it adjusts timing *and the throttle* to make your shift "smoother". I have no doubt that Porsche is doing things at least as sophisticated as what GM does.
From the first time I drove a Cayman I suspected Porsche was doing something like torque management. I'd bet a cup of coffee there's some throttle modulation involved too. I think part of the reason auto manufacturers get away with this stuff is that most people have never driven a powerful car that doesn't have electronic gremlins making decisions for you. 400hp engines with no "smoothing" are brutal devices. If folks knew the difference they might care, but ignorance is...
I suppose this hasn't bothered me with the CS because the end effect is pretty nice. The CS is a very sweet car to drive. People got annoyed with BMW over the CDV because it made their manual transmission cars jerky to shift, no matter how skilled you are. The sense of urgency to rid the car of CDV was very high. What is the issue in Cayman drivability that would push us to expending a lot of effort?
The propensity to stall and the car fighting your efforts to get the revs just right when pulling away from a stop. It is a silly annoyance, that's all.
We aren't going to talk about the service record of YOUR company are we?
If you buy the telephone module there is a different microphone that goes into the car and I'm guessing that's where it goes.
You've got me there, K-man.
I just got done looking in my footwell. I can't wait to tape that switch when I get home... I always noticed the need to rev more than I thought it should. Otherwise, the CS shift is as smooth and crisp as the old 84 VW GTI I learned a stick on. Damn, this site rocks!
I must be missing something here....can someone post a pic of what switch is being talked about? Sounds like doing whatever to it might improve the car (?)
http://www.planet-9.com/cayman-complaints/25405-clutch-delay-switch-defeated-joy-2.html#post286903
brad
