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Old 03-23-2004, 06:15 AM
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drive by wire.
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Default Drive By Wire.
There is no actual throttle cable, just a sensor on the pedal that notes the position of the throttle and tells the ECU, which then computes the AF mixture, among other things. The Throttle Body is servo operated.
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Default Just think of your playstation pedal controller for your racing games.
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unless you're on vwvortex, where i think its an engine code.
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