Turbo Lag

[Brad Martin]

At 02:20 PM 2/26/96 -0800, you wrote:
>You wrote: 
>>
>>How about just pressing the gas peddal?
>>
>This is fine at +3500 rpm, but at a cruising 2500 rpm you will just 
>have to wait. Of course a downshift will bring you into the correct rpm 
>range, but sometimes that is not a possability.
The simple solution here is called "left foot braking".
Keep your right foot buried, use your left foot to modulate your speed.

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