From what I was told, by the guy who dyno tuned my car, torque management is there to protect your drivetrain and driveline components from taking a beating when you're getting on it pretty hard with traction control off. Supposedly, it is more noticeable in the autos than the manuals. Having it totally removed won't make that big of a difference in ET's for street applications. But for heavily modded, high horsepower engines used mainly for drag racing, having it taken off will aid in the every-little-bit-counts aspect of racing.
Maybe there's another explanation out there but that's what I was told.
As far as how the computer manages it, I didn't ask that. But I think that it's probably controlled the same way traction control is. Just at a lesser rate.
Well, I'm no engineer, but I believe TM is designed to reduce the amount of abuse the drive train receives during very aggresive acceleration. In otherwords, the ECU will back off on the electronically controled throttle and/or take some timing out between upshifts. After a brief delay, the power will be restored to "full throttle" status. Anyone else wanna chime in?
I drive my 6-speed a bit of "aggression" shall we say, and can tell you that my balls are occasionally squeezed in check by more than the traction control. Only drove an autmatic during test drive so cannot speak on that setup. It is definitely noticeable even in the manual
ive noticed it in mine being an a4 but i take t/c off and put it in 3rd whole different car
seems like when its in drive it just plain loses power cause when its in 3rd boy it moves
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