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What useless things have you gotten rid of under the hood?
Power steering pump, horns, charcoal cannister, all the AC parts and aux fan, fan & shroud (replaced with an SPAL), all of the sound deadening stuff, and various plastic pieces. The ABS system is well worth keeping. It is actually pretty good and can save your butt in a panic stop or in the wet.
The car makes it possible, but the driver makes it happen.
Jim Levie, Huntsville, AL
my ABS actually saved my ass yesterday.. a light turned yellow so I stopped. it was pretty wet and the traction on the left and right sides of the car was not even (one side was asphalt, the other side tar). the car pitched left about 15 degrees, then ABS came on and straigthened me out.
I probably could have just blew the light but part of me just wanted to see how well I could stop in the wet. No amount of threshold braking would help in that situation, since you can't change how the left and right sides of the car brake manually.
there wasn't anything for me to hit (middle of nowhere) so I probably would have just spun, but I really didn't want to find out. :)
There are some oddball cars with the battery in the front.
Pretty sure all cabbies have them up front. Along with some across the pond 318's.
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