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Old 02-25-2011, 02:01 AM   #19 (permalink)
zonker
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Originally Posted by Frank Lee View Post
Hardy har har. You know what's gonna happen if more air is forced past the throttle plate right?

You will let off the gas until the restriction is the same as it was before.

this is true, but if the air was forced thru a throttle plate on a fuel injected car, the tps would still read the throttle opening as less than what air the engine is actually getting and deliver less fuel, much in the same way a large vacuum leak would, so you'd have a air/fuel mixture change that would reflect a leaner condition.

This is how DIY turbo kits added to a non-turbo designed motor/ecu contribute to engines that go clunk in the night.

granted, you would not need to go thru all that kind of hassle if you just reprogrammed the ecu...
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