Drive By Wire - Haltech How-To

Original Author Richard Montalvo - Facebook

Posted here to save the information and make it searchable.

"Here are total costs associated with this upgrade I just did.
- Bosch Throttle body $150 (Amazon)
- Billet throttle body flange $90
- Bosch wiring plug $12
- Pedal from a 4G eclipse $15 (Junkyard)
- Vibrant cast elbow $35 (local shop)
- Torque Solution clamp $85
- Fab work, piping & Labor $200
- Tuner adjusting the Haltech $125
: $712 no tax.

Now take into consideration that I did the fab work and welding myself, but I would charge someone $200 to do all this fab work if they brought me their car. Other people may charge less or more. These are straight costs for how I did it. You can save money by not using a cast elbow and boost clamp. Straight couplers are cheaper. Also if you tune the ecu yourself obviously no cost for a re tune


- Adding Cruise control
- Better idle
- Better cold start (especially w/E85)
- Traction control
- Throttle activated Exhaust bypass valve
- Eliminating Idle Motor, TPS and FIAV
- Safety. Nothing can jam the throttle open
- Better pedal travel/feel

Now someone mentioned that there is throttle delay when using Drive by Wire. I recently drove a friends car with Drive by Wire and I didn't notice any delay so I cannot confirm that it is an issue at this time. I will advise later on once I drive it around for a few miles.
Hope this was informative."

 

[Canadian_CD9A]

I was just reading into this a few days ago.

The throttle body from the Evo X, 4G69, 4B11, etc can be used as well. It's a 60mm piece that bolts to the stock manifold and would save most of the costs on the TB and fabrication (making this a $250ish proposition if you do your own work).

 

[Jacolu3]

Original Author Richard Montalvo - Facebook

Posted here to save the information and make it searchable.

"Here are total costs associated with this upgrade I just did.
- Bosch Throttle body $150 (Amazon)
- Billet throttle body flange $90
- Bosch wiring plug $12
- Pedal from a 4G eclipse $15 (Junkyard)
- Vibrant cast elbow $35 (local shop)
- Torque Solution clamp $85
- Fab work, piping & Labor $200
- Tuner adjusting the Haltech $125
: $712 no tax.

Now take into consideration that I did the fab work and welding myself, but I would charge someone $200 to do all this fab work if they brought me their car. Other people may charge less or more. These are straight costs for how I did it. You can save money by not using a cast elbow and boost clamp. Straight couplers are cheaper. Also if you tune the ecu yourself obviously no cost for a re tune


- Adding Cruise control
- Better idle
- Better cold start (especially w/E85)
- Traction control
- Throttle activated Exhaust bypass valve
- Eliminating Idle Motor, TPS and FIAV
- Safety. Nothing can jam the throttle open
- Better pedal travel/feel

Now someone mentioned that there is throttle delay when using Drive by Wire. I recently drove a friends car with Drive by Wire and I didn't notice any delay so I cannot confirm that it is an issue at this time. I will advise later on once I drive it around for a few miles.
Hope this was informative."

Is there any info on the wiring of the pedal and throttle body?

 

[shellhouse]

Looks like last update in Mar 2020, however I'd also be interested to know how it worked out.

 

[DSM_Sweden]

A picture of the pedal installation would be nice ^^

 

[Jacolu3]

A picture of the pedal installation would be nice ^^

I plan on mounting mine this weekend with rivnuts. If it works out I'll post some pictures

 

[shadow99]

Anything happen to work out?

 

[Jacolu3]

I ended up cutting the mounts off the pedal so it would sit flush on the firewall. I used one of the factory studs and a rivnut on the bottom. Worked out pretty good.

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[GsxAwd2300]

So cool