Cruise control

[Jay95R33]

Anyone know how well the vacume ones work on turbo cars where the power delivery isn't liner ??

My last car had cruise, and it killed me going to a car without it

Stimps - does the one you've got work on the tacho signal as well ?? I've never installed one that runs on the magnets etc....

[stimps]

The one i have works off the magnets on the tailshaft system, which is if anything, more accurate.

Being a turbo car or not makes no difference.

If you have a turbo auto, its even better, as when you come to a steep hill, it will simply apply more throttle, turbo spools up, auto kicks down a gear....etc..

I havent played with any of them that work off a tacho signal, but I would think that any that does, would be pretty dodgy, as the behaviour of it would change depending on which gear your in.

[Jay95R33]

Cool,

Yeah, the one I had in my last car was done via the tacho and used to get confused on steep hills etc. But it was pretty old (bought it about 12 years ago).

Might put one on my wish list.

BTW: I like what you did with the uhf transmitter. Good idea to keep the dash nice and neat.

J

The one i have works off the magnets on the tailshaft system, which is if anything, more accurate.  

Being a turbo car or not makes no difference.

If you have a turbo auto, its even better, as when you come to a steep hill, it will simply apply more throttle, turbo spools up, auto kicks down a gear....etc..

I havent played with any of them that work off a tacho signal, but I would think that any that does, would be pretty dodgy, as the behaviour of it would change depending on which gear  your in.

[ian]

mine was $750 fitted - so if you did it yourself it should be cheaper, I just needed it very quickly and didn?t have the time.

On the vacuum ones, I'd been warned off them for the turbo skyline, but I don?t know if it is a correct warning or not?

And most of the decent cruise controls should just work of the SPEED wire, not the tacho one, so it is irrelevant which gear you are in..

[stimps]

there is nothing wrong with the vacumn ones on a turbo car.

All turbo cars should have a hose taking vacumn off the manifold, thru a one way valve, to a vacumn resivior somewhere on the car (in the VL's its on the right hand side hidden behind the bumper.)

Even when your on boost, there is plenty of vacumn on hand to deliver power to the actuator to pull the throttle cable.

If it doesnt work, something is wrong, ive seen people have problems and blame the cruise control when I've had a look and found that the one way valve is missing or installed the wrong way around.

[51jay]

The Command cruise control has an optional vaccuum reservoir you can get from the distributers about $30