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Originally Posted by harajukukei
I haven't seen anyone talking about these things yet, but Tom's, Blitz, and a bunch of other JDM tuning brands are selling electronic throttle controllers for the 86/BRZ. I was wondering if anyone has experience with these and can explain their use/value? I understand how they work, just curious if they are worth while. All my previous cars had mechanical throttles so these are new to me.
Examples:
Blitz Full Auto Light
http://www.blitz.co.jp/products/elec...ler_light.html
Blitz Full Auto Plus
http://www.blitz.co.jp/products/elec...ocon_plus.html
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These actually have some good applications - throttle response (in terms of adjusting delay) is just one small part. The value in these is to create custom throttle curves...
As an example, the stock Tundra has a crazy sensitive throttle - it seemed like the first 10% of throttle movement went from 0% to 90% of throttle, and the remaining pedal movement did little or nothing. This was a real issue when trailering and trying to back up, maneuver a load, be precise etc.
with this box, you can really have the first bit of pedal movement feathered out, and make it really easy to control speed on the low end. you could make a full linear curve, an economy curve.. or all on if you wanted
Granted, i'm not sure what application this would have on our cars.. I think the throttle is pretty well sorted.