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Originally Posted by Arragonis
I assume this thing doesn't have an electric handbrake, mine kicks in if the engine is turned off or when a door is opened. Makes sense but EO(ff)C is out of the question with it.
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Yup, manual handbrake, thank god. Yours automatically turns on? Ouch. The cars I've driven with electric handbrake don't do that.
This car has electric steering column lock that activates when the door is opened. The steering is surprisingly easy to use without assist, about as much effort as my MR2 with PS disabled despite having 500 extra pounds over the front axle.
The flywheel has a pretty standard amount of inertia, and the idle is very smooth for a 4 cylinder, so I'm pretty excited to experiment with lowering the idle. I believe it uses internal EGR via exhaust cam timing at low load, which will make tuning it for lean burn a little tricky (I hear the engine will stumble at just 17:1 AFR if you try this). Overall I'm pretty stoked to be tweaking a relatively state of the art engine. The engine braking effect is far far weaker than the 1ZZ-FE, the wonders of friction reduction and tuning
