Mike Wills wrote:

If building something from scratch, have you considered a

barrel valve

similar to what is used on model aircraft engines? Maybe

friction/sticking

is an issue with them also.  I've often wondered why I've

never seen

something like that on a race application. I've been tempted

to try it,

Mike Wills

Mike, while wandering around the net looking for throttles I ran across a site where this guy made an incredible 4 barrel rotary throttle as you describe. Very very nice high precision machine work. His last entry was that while doing static tests it would stick at midway open when he jabbed the pedal. Glad he did not take it out on the road to test it. That was a s far as he had gotten.
...Chrissi

 
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