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markgE30
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Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:56 am

car wont rev above 5500.i think it maybe the fuel pump not giving enough pressure but sumbody told me it could be something to do with the arm in the distributor. any ideas why its doing this? help would be much appreciated cheerz Mark
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Tue Oct 18, 2011 7:25 pm

That's because your engine is ETA and that's the rev cut
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:31 am

what does ETA mean and it has been chipped as well so should rev higher
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 10:43 am

My eta based 2.7 revs to 6500rpm..... :D
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:40 pm

whats ETA?
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Wed Oct 19, 2011 5:28 pm

markgE30 wrote:whats ETA?
I think that eta is elderly Greek for efficency...

No idea what ETA is,sorry!
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