individual throttles? 5-cyl.

[frank j. bauer]

At 12:47 AM 1/31/01 -0500, Ameer Antar wrote:
>I know this would really be tough on a 5-cyl., but would there be any 
>advantage to putting on individual throttle bodies on a turbo motor? A lot 
>of N/A cars use them to gain throttle response. What do you guys think?

for one thing, it's a major packaging problem.
for another, i don't think you would get much improvement in throttle
response, considering the length of the overall intake tract
(airbox/turbo/ic and the plumbing to keep them apart to do each job
efficiently.)

frank