RE: e30 throttle body mods

["Fadeev, Alex" <Alex.Fadeev@xxxxxxx>]

"Gary Derian" <gderian@domain.elided> wrote:
> 
> A large throttle body makes the engine feel more responsive 
> because it opens more area for a given throttle angle. 

Regardless of the throttle plate opening, the amount of air passing through
the intake is measured by the AFM. Then DME is adjusting the fuel mixture
according to negate any changes. 
The only way a bigger throttle body could have helped is if stock M20B25
engine was seriously suffocating, which  does not seam to be the case. And
even then DME would have to be reprogrammed to see any effect. 

> This is the same as altering the throttle linkage to open the
> throttle farther during tip in.  

read above

> There may be no gain in power at all, but it will feel
> quicker around town. This is a common technique to make
> low powered cars feel peppy.

Now this stops making sense altogether. 
If there is zero power gain, what in the world would make it 'feel quicker
around town'?  
There is not even any funky (K&N) sound to provide placebo effect, so
whaaaazzzup?

alex f

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