How an Air Intake Works
How an Air Intake Works
I took apart the air intake on my G35 and made a short video on how it works:
Its pretty neat to cut open some of the components inside the air intake system.
Here is the entire air intake system removed:
Of notable mention:
The accelerator pedal sensor uses two potentiometer tracks. These measure resistance inversely with each other as fail safe:
The throttle position sensor also has two separate tracks in its potentiometer for redundancy:
This is what the thin wires, temperature bulb and calibration circuit look like in the MAF sensor:
And finally, this is what's inside the drive by wire throttle body:
Its pretty neat to cut open some of the components inside the air intake system.
Here is the entire air intake system removed:
Of notable mention:
The accelerator pedal sensor uses two potentiometer tracks. These measure resistance inversely with each other as fail safe:
The throttle position sensor also has two separate tracks in its potentiometer for redundancy:
This is what the thin wires, temperature bulb and calibration circuit look like in the MAF sensor:
And finally, this is what's inside the drive by wire throttle body:
Last edited by speedkar9; Feb 20, 2019 at 07:33 AM. Reason: Fixed photos
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Awesome work!
I'm moving this thread to the Media Share sub-forum because of relevancy, if you start any new threads like this please post them there as well.
I'm moving this thread to the Media Share sub-forum because of relevancy, if you start any new threads like this please post them there as well.
Last edited by Blue Dream; Feb 21, 2019 at 05:08 AM.
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