Throttle-by-Wire

[The Punisher]

C5's have "drive by wire". you wont be likely to find any in any wrecking 
yard though. Basicly you have an LS-1 throttlebody with a servo motor on the 
side. Too bad they dont have a seperate control module. Its controlled by 
the computer. There are some additional program segments in the corvette 
computer compared to the F-body and truck compuetrs, some of which are 
probably DBW related.

If you want to make youre own servo it would probably be easy with a PIC or 
AVR microcontroller and a pot on the pedal. The servo on the vette has a 
small enough gear reduction ratio that the spring will close the butterfly 
when the power is off. A good safety feature you might want to emulate.

hope some of that may help.
Marvin Fugate (The Punisher)


From: "bob" <bob at scientist.com>
>Reply-To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
>Subject: Throttle-by-Wire
>Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 22:00:24 -0500
>
>Does Ford put TBW on any of it's vehicles or is
>there any vehicle that i could pull a TBW off of
>in the junkyard to retrofit to a project?
>
>THanks!
>
>
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