good days and average days

[Sabby]

well sometimes i drive my car, it feels different,
i have days where the car drives great in relation to power and acceleration and then i have days where the car drives kinda sluggish.
is it me just being wierd? or can cars also have good days and bad days?
and im not talking about driving in hot and then cold another day.

[detox_nath83]

Hey man i have the same problem i really dont know the reason.
I was gonna say Hot/Cold days but u already mentioned that.
Mine has not done that in a while, but i rekon im due for one
Ha

[GLD-086]

My car's like that too.

Some days it's like driving a Lexus, other days it's like driving an old worn out Kingswood.

[harry3]

maybe it depends on your mood or the weather, cars always seem to run better at night

[VL Berlina 5speed]

mine always seems to be quicker if i dont drive it for a few days,

want cheap performance???? park your car for a week and then take it for a drive, you will beleive your car could out run any thing

[snake_VL]

i used to experience this too, i found that resetting the ECU would make the car run great but then over the next few days it sort of slowly lose power. then it would come back and go and it used to **** me real bad...but since then i have replaced a lot of things and it just seems to have gone away, it runs pretty well every day. the only thing now is i lost the spring out of the AAC valve and it sticks sometimes either making the idle too low on cold start or making the idle too high once warm.

i reckon this problem has a lot to do with the various sensors on the intake manifold. clean your AAC, IAC, air regulator etc and it may improve. i also got a new AFM, leads, plugs, internal fuel pump, fuel filter, pod filter, replaced intake manifold gaskets, replaced some hoses, injectors and some other stuff in the meantime too so one of those may have been the cause. also you could tune you afm and check your timing

the more i think about it the more i think it was the AFM that was causing it. i don't think it was holding the settings too well. Be prepared for it just to die on you one day and need replacing. or you could replace it now and see what happens

[GLD-086]

Nah what I hate is how somedays, my gearbox feels perfect, and slips into gear with ease.

Other days it can be a real c**t, and clunk and carry on.

[Sabby]

maybe its all do to with our heads?
maybe one day it runs realy good and we expect that it will run the same the next time and it does but we dont notice it.
but clearly its obvious taht it isnt our mind coz others notice to

[adrian222]

ha ha yer i think we jst become acustom to the power and some days our mind plays tricks, thats way happens when we dont drive our cars for a week and we forget the feeling of drivin and sinkin in the seat then we do it and feel like we have all the power in the world. but yer my vl does the same thing

[JD]

mine always seems to be quicker if i dont drive it for a few days,

want cheap performance???? park your car for a week and then take it for a drive, you will beleive your car could out run any thing

sweet, once the vc registered it should run 10s, its been sitting there for more than 2 months now

[Sabby]

I no i no
the VL's have a smarter ecu than we think. they are tricking us.
they are like humans, when they having a good day they drive to the max potential
when they are sick, they cant be bothered driving,
after 1 week, they are fully healed and are ready for a good thrash which they love
and by thrash i dont mean burnouts and drag racing, i mean a nice clean drive.

[Shane1989]

I personally think its how much humidity is in the air at the time your driving. The air temp and humidity factor are great player in how your car will run. I have noticed since its gotton cold and very dry here in alice I am starting to be able to keep up with lightly modded XR6's and even one stock turbo XR6. Although I think the turbo one wasent givin it anything because I couldent hear any kind of wistle, but then again I can't hear anything over my motor when its revving out HAHAHAHAHA .

[adrian222]

lol well if ur finding that ur car runs beta in cold dry air and keeping up with xr6's then i wonder if ppl in qld with hot humid air are jst keeping up with excels??????

[Sabby]

well i just had a good drive, car was sitting there for 10 days, didnt move.
took it out tonight, icy cold and dry roads.
was at the lights n it revved out really well and i got to speed in 2nd gear just after 1st was over.
i felt like i cudda beaten many cars.