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Re: What Are You Guys Talking About? (archive)
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Posted by Stan C. on May 07, 2001 at 08:57:42:

In Reply to: What Are You Guys Talking About? posted by DOGRA on May 06, 2001 at 23:53:31:

The 850's have a throttle by wire system, where a sensor determines the pedal position and opens the intake butterfly valves with a synchro motor per instructions from the computer. There's no throttle cable, it's all electronic.

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