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Tuner in Training
clutch position sensor on a swap vehicle?
I'll be using a e38 computer with either a Camaro or Corvette manual-trans tune(haven't decided which yet). I want the best driveability I reasonably can, which calls for mounting a clutch position sensor. The clutch sensor is a simple three-wire sensor, that pulls the output wire to ground or to 5 volts.
It looks very challenging to install a real variable clutch sensor on my pedal. I already have a clutch switch that was used for cruise control in the original vehicle. I'm proposing using that clutch switch to flip a small solid-state relay, and replicate a clutch sensor.
Has anyone done this or anything similar? Is there any reason it won't work well? The clutch sensor would be seeing an instant press/depress situation, which isn't quite ideal, but I'm pretty sure it's still a lot better than having no sensor at all.
One concern I have is with the clutch pedal relearn process. Will this throw the computer for an unsolvable loop, since it will only see two clutch states, on and off?
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Tuner in Training
This is how the early corvettes worked - single button clutch switch. Either on or off. You can enable that circuit in the DTC area of the tune - enable clutch switch and disable clutch position sensor & associations.