TRACTION CONTROL

[David A. Cooley]

At 09:12 PM 11/13/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Scott wrote:
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>>Just a question about cutting the fuel at WOT:  Couldn't that be very
>>very bad for a high cylinder pressure engine?  I know my race engines
>>when just a little lean will start to pit the pistons very quickly and a
>>supercharged car will just sneeze.  I've seen many Winston Cup cars come
>>in puffing after they mis-calculate their mileage or get a little
>>greedy.  Maybe that is a totally different situation than taking off
>>from a standing start, but it just makes me uneasy running an engine
>>lean under full throttle.  Does the fact that you are talking about
>>shutting the fuel completely off for those durations mean that no
>>residual fuel will be left over from a previous cycle to give it a lean
>>condition?  Ease my mind please.

Cutting the fuel doesn't lean the mixture, it removes it... The cylinder in
question has essentially nothing but air in it.
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