Maserati on a Rolling Road - What to look out for?

[GhostyDog]

Hi all,

I've only managed to bait one of you into coming to the rolling road day at RS Tuning in Leeds on the 2nd of February and with that in mind I want to make sure we have all the info available to ensure his car doesn't light up like a Christmas tree as lots of modern cars do when they do over 100mph standing still and the ECU goes WTF?

With most of the modern Alfa's it's just a case of the engine management going through 3 start cycles and it resets everything, is there something similar for Maserati's?

Also is there a trick to keeping it in gear in a CC equipped car?

And if your interested in getting your own car on the rollers see the thread over here on alfaowner.com

Cheers

Sean

 

[CatmanV2]

Hi Ghostydog.

Why would the car think it's standing still? Because the front wheels aren't turning at a rate similar to the back?

Cheers

C

 

[philw696]

Mine has been on the rollers at DMS Southhampton at 97,000 miles flat out in 4th gear ran faultless and after a remap got 458BHP no issues at all and drove fine ever since for the last 10,000.
Phil.

 

[bigbob]

Deer......

 

[mjheathcote]

That would be me...looking forward to it!
Is there any spaces going? If so could get me friend in a 997 Turbo interested, although may be a problem being four wheel drive.

 

[GhostyDog]

That would be me...looking forward to it!
Is there any spaces going? If so could get me friend in a 997 Turbo interested, although may be a problem being four wheel drive.

Yes there is, the more the merrier, especially exotica

We are at the stage of putting names down for sessions over on AO so you can add him there if he's up for it

BTW, theres a rather tasty black brera thats running over 300bhp in your village, it's a diseasel but you might know of it.

Sean

 

[GhostyDog]

Hi Ghostydog.

Why would the car think it's standing still? Because the front wheels aren't turning at a rate similar to the back?

Cheers

C

only the driven wheels turn

 

[hodroyd]

I suppose that's no to the 997 then..??

 

[mjheathcote]

I suppose that's no to the 997 then..??

If front or rear wheel drive, the driven axle is on the rollers, the non driven axle remains on firm concrete.
If four wheel drive, both the front and rear axles are on rollers....don't know if the rolling road in Leeds has one set, or a pair of rollers?

 

[Dan!]

You may need to trick it into thinking the bonnet is shut to help with the ecu issue.
I rolling loaded my 4.2 gt and the dash went crazy. The solution was to get it back on the road and launch it so the traction control kicked in and then jump on the brakes so the abs kicked in. All returned to normal after that.
The gts didn't seem to mind but they (DMS) did the bonnet trick.
The Lambo didn't care either.

 

[mjheathcote]

Good point, it won't go into gear with the bonnet or door open.
Quite annoying the door one, especially when reversing into a tight space sometimes.

 

[hodroyd]

Don't you have the reverse dipping mirrors Mike..??

 

[CatmanV2]

I do love those mirrors. Seriously neat, although the bulge of the rear arches still throws me off, sometimes.

C