Well I defeated the ASR (I know that I defeated it becasue the snowchain light illuminates when teh ASR is defeated), the car ran great going to UPS to drop off a cylinder head, she ran great going to Walmart (to pick up a wiper), but then on the way home from walmart, on the freeway (first time on the freeway for me in this car) she would hesitate and surge while at moderate throttle, she was fine under heavy acceleration, and fine when coasting, but inbetween I'd get hesitation then surges.

The PO told me he had the wiring harness replaced, and EA Unit R/R'd at Benntech or something like that in NC. but I didn't see the receipt, but he had no reason to lie to me, trust me he didn't.

Well anyway, the car idle's fine, smooth, at 650 (or so) when ASR is not defeated. When ASR is defeated (by interrupting pins 25, 35, and 37 on the ASR module) the idle RPM (in park) is 1200-1500. The idle goes down to about 600 when in gear.

Since I've defeated the ASR, the car has not coughed and sputtered like it did leaving the post office (see earlier post).

It does seem that I must depress the throttle a little excessive to get the car moving (both ASR on and off). If accellerating lightly, the car seems to shift late. When accelerating with a leadfoot, I get whiplash when the car tackes off.

The ASR it seems never turned on when the car is just idleing, but revving it up tends to increase the voltage across the ASR light, i.e. ASR light on.

So something is not right with the car, so I'm gonna build a DTC code scanner and see what I can come up with.

Anyone got any ideas, suggestions, or relevent symptoms?

Marty