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    Using electronic throttle control to limit power

    Is this possible with any ETC GM cars out there? Basically limiting the max power of the engine by rolling back the throttle blade as RPM's increase. The idea is to flatline the power.

    Is this possible? Are there tables to control this?

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    Yes. Are you planning on loaning your car out or something?

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    Quote Originally Posted by L8BRAKE View Post
    Is this possible with any ETC GM cars out there? Basically limiting the max power of the engine by rolling back the throttle blade as RPM's increase. The idea is to flatline the power.

    Is this possible? Are there tables to control this?
    It works well to prevent traction loss. Max Torque RPM vs Gear table. Preset the torque number and it will pretty well hold it. TM by throttle needs to be on.

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    trying to gain traction somewhere on the curve?

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    I briefly looked into creating a config a while back that would log TPS against the ETC TPS Max table and set the filter to only allow data when there was tire slip. You could set this histo to display the lowest TPS when this happens and then plug that number into theETC TPS Max table minus 10% or so. The idea was to dial in the ETC TPS Max table to where it's on the edge of traction. In theory it sounds good but it proved difficult to implement and I gave up quickly. Maybe logging traction control torque % against the ETC TPS Max table and reducing those cells by that percentage.
    Bill Winters

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