[W126 Coupe] POWER

[Jim Ham]

What Markus forgot to mention is that up through 1985 Mercedes included a 
first-gear start module as standard equipment - just move the shift lever 
to "2". It is not as full-featured as the one from Satish et. al., but it 
works.

Jim Ham

At 08:21 AM 8/29/2005, you wrote:
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>For cars with automatic transmissions, they usually shift through the 
>gears "automatically", starting in first, then switching to second, third 
>and so on for as many speeds as your transmission has (3-6). Our cars have 
>4 speed transmissions, but for CAFE reasons, they were set up to start out 
>in second gear instead of first gear, unless you really mashed the 
>throttle. The euro models had a module to allow the car to start in first 
>gear all the time without mashing the throttle, which gives more "power" 
>off the line, and many of us have put that module/kit in our US models to 
>help with off the line acceleration. Might not be much, but every little 
>bit helps with these cars!
>
>Markus
>
>--- On Mon 08/29, jack emery < jemery at wn.com.au > wrote:
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>From: jack emery [mailto: jemery at wn.com.au]
>To: mbcoupes at mbcoupes.com
>Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 23:06:44 +0800
>Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] POWER
>
>What is a first gear start?
>Jack OZ
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