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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:03 am 
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alright well a mate of mine bought an ex-cop car and found a secret switch hidden just under the headunit??

a wire went straight to the computer

we have no idea what it was for? he ripped it out before checking lol

but we may think it might be a limiter?? what do u guys think?
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:19 am 
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it might of been a switch for the limiter which explains why the cop cars were so much faster

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 1:47 am 
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Its the switch that installs the copper ecu program which gives you an extra 100rwkw :P

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:00 am 
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ea dont have speed limiters..
afaik the speed limiter was introduced in the eb
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:03 am 
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really i never knew that i thought all the fords with the computers had speed limiters so wat is the switch for then

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:14 am 
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Its an EA - ~28years old
how many owners has it gone through ? at least the cops and 1 other before your mate got to it. highly think that someone added it for some reason, doubt it had anything to do with the cops though.

What pin did it go to ?
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 2:28 am 
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the switch was well hidden.. like you would not have known it was there


not sure on the pin?? ill find out tomorrow..

it seem abit wierd thats all??
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 3:11 am 
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Possibly shiftkit?

 

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Its the switch that installs the copper ecu program which gives you an extra 100rwkw :P


christ, im going to get one of them installed. asap. this weekend. at BP.

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 3:38 am 
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probably a kill switch for the injectors...............or it turns the EA cop car into the delorean and activates the flux capacitor, for time travel ...lol...

 

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NOS switch for sure.

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:04 pm 
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probably a kill switch for the injectors...............or it turns the EA cop car into the delorean and activates the flux capacitor, for time travel ...lol...


what doesn't yours have one :P

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 7:08 pm 
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yeh mate let us know which pin the wire went to on the ecu

 

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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 11:03 pm 
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they introduced the limiters after chasing an EA across melbourne at over 210kph.

 

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Its an EA - ~28years old

I think you mean ~20 years.. EA's came out in 88'

 

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