ultimate wrote:There is an idle up kit available for the Hilux overseas but it's a little bit different to the old hand throttles. It's used on police and armoured vehicles which need higher revs and larger alternators for running electrical equipment. It is spliced into the throttle and works by converting the throttle signal depending on battery voltage. When the battery voltage drops below 13V, the idle up kicks in and raises the revs to 1800RPM. The main downside is the vehicle has to be in park for the idle up to work (Safety measure to comply with international standards) which means it cannot be used for hill climbs and crawling.
We should have a test unit arriving here in the next couple of months. I'm not sure on its suitability for off road vehicles but the kit has been thoroughly tested overseas and works well on service and emergency vehicles.
Hey Brendan you had a chance to play around with this kit yet??? Im very interested in getting something like this happening as I can think of lots of ways it would be useful. You say it can only be used in 'park' but what about for manual vehicles?? It surely would be easy to ground such a wire out and have it available to use all the time. Just like the handbrake wire on dvd screens