toss the throttle body completely?

[Huw Powell]

he's talking about removing the throttle body (the butterfly device),
not the air plate/fuel dist. assembly...

rob hod wrote:
> 
>     the basic flaw with this is that the air plate/distributor assembly is a
> beautifully engineered assembly designed to very accurately meter air-mass
> flow and deliver a very accurately matched fuel supply to the injectors. It
> succeeds in most conditions. What you do by manually moving the airplate is
> discard all that design work and make yourself the crappiest simulation of a
> slide-throttle carb you ever saw. Also the warm up regulator, which works by
> lowering the control pressure and allowing greater plate deflection on a
> cold engine is completely defeated. What a strange experiment!

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Huw Powell

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