Air flow meter

[Matt Cramer]

At 08:41 AM 8/21/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>
>One of the guys here at work is an ex industrial designer from Holden,
>and he was telling me that the 5.7L Commodore engine was extremely
>choked when it arrived in the standard trim from USA.  The first thing
>Holden did was throw away the throttle body and airflow meter to gain
>some significant hp (although couldn't tell me how many).  The apparent
>reason for choked intake is due to lack of traction control on the US
>cars with this engine (can someone verify this ??).  Holden just
>automatically fits traction control to anything high power so that
>solved the wheel spin problems.
>
>Dan  dzorde at erggroup.com

	Nope.  The only things that engine comes in here are the Camaro, Trans Am,
and Corvette, although trucks use a similar cast iron version.  All three
cars use traction control.  Not that many of their owners like this, as the
stock traction control limits hard launches on a dragstrip.

Matt Cramer
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