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Re: TPS boosters?



Bruce,
I remember a recent post of yours saying that a good judge of the chip
calibration is whether it will pull away at 1400-1600 RPM in direct without
lugging. I tried that with mine today and except for a very slight
hesitation it motorvated away with no problem.

Dominic
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Plecan" <nacelp@bright.net>
To: <gmecm@diy-efi.org>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: TPS boosters?


> "our cars" happens to mean the Buick EFI turbos.  On some cars get the
> travel right from idlev to max seems to be a problem, from what I've
heard.
>   They are time to time offered by others for other ecms.   Dunno for sure
> if there are other applications where they are actually needed.  I haven't
> ever had a problem with the ecm seeing 100%, which as mentioned can be
other
> then 4.8x v
>   All I ever do is set the idle v to what the manual says, and test for a
> resonablely high v, and that when the pedal is fully depressed the
throttle
> physically opens all the way.   You'd never beleive the number of loyal
> customers I used to have from cutting out the sound deadening from under
the
> gas pedal so the cars ran right at WOT
> Grumpy
>
> > Saw this mentioned on one of my other lists, anyone got an opinion?
> > Hey,anyone ever tear one of these apart? Seems to me it couldn't make
any
> > difference at all, because WOT mode in most ECM's is 70-75%, isn't it?
> > Putting out even 5 v into the ECM from the TPS wouldn't help, would it?
> > Seems this is an even better way to waste $100 then lighting the bill on
> > fire...
> > Tom
> > >Casper Electronics Throttle response calibrator is available for our
> cars.
> > It recalibrates the TPS above
> > >70% throttle. It seems to be a good deal at only 89.95 and from what I
> > gather it seems to increase the >voltage
> >
>
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