advantages of electronic throttle

[dennis]

There are a few minor advantages.

This is what I gather....

For naturally aspirated stuff, they can make the engine more "responsive" ie, change the opening rate of the throttle depending on what "mode" you select, or what "mood" you are in. 

For turbo stuff, it seems that there are more advantages, the ecm can "anticipate" when you want boost and help to spool the turbo sooner. Boost and torque can be more linear and controllable, and I think there are some things that they can do with anti-lag.

For all applications they can use throttle opening as part of a traction control/vehicle control scheme.

It all seems like just more stuff to break to me.
What happens when the little stepper motor on the throttle screws up? Or when the pedal sensor shorts out?

Dennis

--- Jeroen Proveniers <J.Proveniers at orga.nl>
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>JJ
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