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RE: Traction Control

To: "'Dave Dahlgren'" <ddahlgren@snet.net>,
Subject: RE: Traction Control
From: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:43:15 -0500
Dave;

Our old M8C McLaren Can-Am car used a timing retard rev limiter on its Chevy
ZL-1 engine. When the rev limit was reached, the timing was retarded enough
to suddenly lose about 200BHP. It didn't overstress the engine and it worked
very well.

Regards, Neil     Tucson, AZ


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Dahlgren [mailto:ddahlgren@snet.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 2:55 AM
To: John Goodman
Cc: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Traction Control


You don't need to hook to wheel speeds. An accelerometer and a slew rate rev
limiter will do the job just fine.. Or rather than rev limit you pull timing
out as well. The ones you can hear use rev limiting a little crude as it can
upset the chassis unlike the ones that pull timing out.. Dave

John Goodman wrote:
> 
> Bill, the only problem I see here is if your MSD is communicating with 
> data acquisition from wheel RPM sensors. If the driver is in manual 
> control of the retard feature, what's the harm?
> 
> John

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