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Originally Posted by Stevo
... I think i have seen that little shock absorber looking "dash pod' on other "later" 240Ds, not just Euros. I cant really say I can tell any difference in throttle response between my two 240s (the 78 of course does't have one)
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... Well neither of our two 1980(s) shown below had a "dashpot" or "surge damper" or "dampener" and because they both tend to give you a "kick in the pants" when shifting from 1-to-2, and because I saw that later models do have this device connected between their vacuum control valves [VCV] and the auto tranny shift modulator... well I decided to see if one of these cheap air chambers might improve and soften this hard 1-to-2 shift problem. Well it does just that, even more so than I expected. And it is my perception that it also delays the much less objectionable early 3-to-4 shifts... you know the tendency for it to up shift if you don't keep the pedal to the metal!
I'm even toying with the notion of seeing what two of these might do for the shifting... in series and in parallel.
Sam