panhead
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Here's a link to the one Revhigh do, https://www.revhigh.com.au/stealth-throttle-controller-vitesse-ve
but basically...
It changes the way the throttle body reacts when you engage the go pedal and depending on the setting, will increase, shorten or completely remove the delay when you depress the accelerator pedal to when the throttle body reacts.
Economy mode reduces the throttle response to save fuel and make acceleration as sedate as possible (for when your granny wants to pop down to the bowls club for bingo in your GTS ), whereas the 13 different Sport modes increase throttle response and make the throttle body react immediately and open faster.
I to 7 makes the throttle reaction incrementally faster and 7 to 13 makes the throttle body itself open faster. Anything from 11 and above is tyre frying lunacy with the slightest tap resulting in a significant launch...even in 6th gear at low revs gear on a freeway.
There's also a rev increase function for using a winch or jump starting.
Standard mode is just normal and there's another mode where it goes to Ecomomy for regular driving, then switches to Sport 3 (I think) when you need to stomp it, then back to Ecomony when things calm down.
I understand what a throttle controller does, maybe I should have rephrased my question better.
A good tuner will improve the response, performance, efficiency including economy of the engine so why would you need a throttle controller to mimic what the tuner has done for you.
I can understand why some owner's with an untuned engine may see some value in one but not for a properly tuned car.
Are there other owners of tuned cars with throttle controllers on the forum, I'd be interested to hear what they have to say as well.
I'm not having a go at you, just interested as I've always been told there's no need for one on a tuned car.
Your graph is normal for your mods, it's about the same as my manual L98 powered VE Ute.
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