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Old 04-27-2012, 07:01 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by smokey442 View Post
How about no throttle restriction and just randomly pulse injectors to provide fuel for a given power demand. Like the old hit and miss engines of the early 1900's ?
Someone tried that here, using a variable control for the injector pulse instead of a throttle control. The car was a Honda DelSol, I can't remember the username of the character involved in the project, though.

He ended up making a millisecond long mistake and burning a piston crown, IIRC.

However, with controls that would prevent one from over-leaning/overloading at the same time, this is, in fact, a viable option, at least so far as was proven by the experiment.
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