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88 turbo can you swap a different tps?

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Old 10-22-15, 01:08 PM
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88 turbo can you swap a different tps?

as title states I have had two tps sensors go out and am wondering if there is any other tps sensors that will work on the s4 fc?
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Depending on your engine management situation, you can use nearly anything you want. However, I'm not aware of anything that uses the plunger/roller style TPS that would be easily adaptable. If you got into an FD UIM/TB you could use a more modern style TPS which is driven directly off the throttle shaft.
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nothing even close to plug n play. if you are decent with fabrication you can make a bracket for other 'through the shaft hole' sensors (lol). those however will require removing parts from the throttle cams and losing some functionality of the TB items.
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^agreed. if you're contemplating this as it only reads the first 30% throttle.... i see why.

I recently converted my s4 car to all s5 electronics, but that was for california smog regulations.
I will say tuning it off of a safc reading the tps is much easier.....

But i will say, and do some research on this before judging and so you know what you're doing, you can run a safc wired to the boost pressure sensor instead of the tps, to get a tune based on load.

I did this on my s4 t2 setup with a rtek 1.8 and it worked brilliantly. People argue against it, but DSM guys did it all the time, and I had zero problems... but again, do some research if this is the reason why.

Convert to power fc, and run a s5 throttle body/tps setup. or fd setup as stated previously
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