Slide Throttles

[SRavet at bangate.compaq.com]

Todd Knighton <knighton at net-quest.com> Wrote:
| 
| SRavet at bangate.compaq.com wrote:
| 
| > OK, what is a slide throttle?  I thought it was simply a "cover" that
| > slides over a "hole".  But that wouldn't tend to stick closed.  so what 
is
| > it?
| > 
| 
| 	It is just a plate over a hole, but try this.  Put a ruler on the
| ground and move it around, easy right.  now have someone stand on it, a
| little more difficult.  Same idea, because of the great pressure
| differential caused by turbo motors and supercharged motors on surge,
| the plates have an enormous amount of pressure placed on them.  They
| tend to deflect and stick in the tracks because the tracks are precision
| machined for a good seal and no rattle in the vertical direction.  Apply
| a bit of curvature in a linear track, uhnt wallah, we have schticking.

Doesn't the wastegate vent that pressure?

Next, what is a barrel throttle?

--steve

Steve Ravet
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