Originally Posted by HDDP
Good luck with that one... Andre' Amoyt is the engineer in charge of the Crossfire at DC in Detroit. He has no idea how to rectify this issue. He and I have had MANY conversations over the past year and his hands are tied because he told me that the German factory never provided many of the documents (specs) to DC here.
He didn't even have the full engineering specs for the engine so we could submit to SCCA for classification and had to request them from overseas.
I hope you make more headway, but I think we'll be hearing this story again and again...
I took one of their "thrill rides" at a demonstration event. The guys were really hammering on the cars and slinging them around far more than you can get away with by pulling fuses. The ESP fault light was on. They definitely worked around the system.
The general feeling is that the Chrysler guys don't have the full story on these little guys and what you've told me confirms it.
I do know that it's possible to remove/reset the speed limiters on MB cars. At the On Track at Texas Motor Speedway the SL65 and CL65 were both turning laps in excess of 170 mph. A magazine test a few years ago had the SL55 topping out at 196 mph on a limiter with (a little) rpm to spare.
Part of the plan was to map the way we got to dyno mode and see if we could get in with a hand held tool or leave it there through a restart.
This may very well be a futile effort, but I'm willing to fiddle with it to see where it leads.