fly by wire

jonners_gti · Post by **jonners_gti** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:20 pm

seen this mentioned a couple of times. how does it work exactly?

instead of a cable is there just a sensor which detects how far down the accelerator is pressed, which in turn adjusts the fuel flow?

Post by **alexperkins** » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:06 pm

Its a sensor, which controls the throttle body butterfly valve and the fuel. Quite a complicated system to describe...tho someone on here can probs do it better than me!

Redline · Post by **Redline** » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:03 am

Wikipedia article is actually quite good on this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic ... le_control