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Old 01-23-2013, 11:10 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Subie View Post
WOT has nothing to do with the engine RPM. All it means is that the butterfly valve in the throttle body is perpendicular to the opening, or wide open. On older cars with cable-linked throttles, pushing the gas pedal to the floor would open that valve fully. On more modern cars with electronic throttles, pushing the gas pedal to the floor will almost certainly result in the same thing, even if at other pedal positions the input does not produce a linear response.
Sorry to thread jack OP, but I have a hard time understanding this as (in my knowledge) pushing the gas pedal to the floor increases RPM, so how is it not related?
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