Brakes will easily stall the engine, or lock it to the torque convertor's stall speed. Try it, you'll do no harm. As a drag racer of years gone by, you could easily hold the power of a duel quad hemi with manual drum brakes.
-- Peter Arnold Windsor, CT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Herrman" <jer...@san.rr.com> To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:19:51 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [MBZ] Sudden acceleration So yesterday I heard what I believe was a public service announcement (by some automotive engineer, I think) on the radio saying that the least powerful brakes are going to easily overpower the most powerful engine.This suggests that applying your brakes firmly in an unexpected acceleration situation would prevent a catastrophe. I'm thinking, on the one hand, of the California Highway Patrolman whose car reached high speed before crashing and burning. Surely he would have applied his brakes fervently. And witnesses claimed they saw smoke at his wheels indicating he had burned out his brakes. On the other hand, if we're talking about my 82 240D, a case of sudden unexpected acceleration would merely have relieved me of the annoyance of having to keep my foot pressed down hard on the accelerator to keep the car at freeway speed. Whadda you guys think? Jerry 1982 240D 78 horsepower __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4875 (20100217) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
