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astevens26 01-15-2012 12:22 AM

throttle body spacers??
 
so..ive been thinking of buying a spacer for my 8 for a minute but im curious if any of you guys installed one yet? ive seen spacers on trucks actually make a little more power on the dyno.cant imagine our application would be any different but i dont see a lot of guys that have it which suprises me cause its such a cheap mod.so anyone actually do a before and after dyno run with one? im thinking if i get it i may have to cut my intercooler piping to allow for the spacer which kinda urks me a bit.but if even i net a 3 hp gain i feel it would be worth it..any thoughts pep?

TeamRX8 01-15-2012 12:52 AM

don't waste your money noob, and search next time too

reddozen 01-16-2012 09:11 AM

This would assume that the factory intake plenum was poorly designed as far as flow capacity, and this isn't the case. Spacers have been know to help old school V8's etc, and this would make since for an intake system that's only function was to provide air and efficiency. You'd be hard pressed to find tuned intake and exhaust systems on old cars from the factory.

dmedz8 01-16-2012 09:25 AM


Originally Posted by astevens26 (Post 4166214)
so..ive been thinking of buying a spacer for my 8 for a minute but im curious if any of you guys installed one yet? ive seen spacers on trucks actually make a little more power on the dyno.cant imagine our application would be any different but i dont see a lot of guys that have it which suprises me cause its such a cheap mod.so anyone actually do a before and after dyno run with one? im thinking if i get it i may have to cut my intercooler piping to allow for the spacer which kinda urks me a bit.but if even i net a 3 hp gain i feel it would be worth it..any thoughts pep?

if it works on trucks:dunno:

























hahaha!

wcs 01-16-2012 09:26 AM

Wait wait ... intercooler piping????

You're boosted and think that a 3hp gain is worth it, wtf?

200.mph 01-16-2012 09:29 AM

tb spacers are only good if they are tapped and used for n02 or water/meth injection

dmedz8 01-16-2012 09:38 AM


Originally Posted by wcs (Post 4166773)
Wait wait ... intercooler piping????

You're boosted and think that a 3hp gain is worth it, wtf?

move the throttle body to the piping before the i/c. that should give you like 30fwhp

Silver_Surfer 01-16-2012 10:41 AM


Originally Posted by dmedz8 (Post 4166780)
move the throttle body to the piping before the i/c. that should give you like 30fwhp

What would that make it? About 18" spacer.:biggthump

astevens26 01-17-2012 11:52 AM

man..you guys flamed me hard..haha guess i was asking for it.lol :spank: my guessing it works on trucks was slightly funny i suppose.whatever leave me be. :( haha

astevens26 01-17-2012 11:54 AM

and what i meant by 3 hp being worth it is that it is only %) bucks which in the grand scheme of things on how much we have dumped into these cars its not a bad gain considering a cat back gets about that and mine was a grand.of course that also came with the benefit of sound

wcs 01-17-2012 12:02 PM

For what you are asking it's not remotely worth it, even if "let's pretend" it did work and really gave you 3hp for only a couple of dollars.
You wouldn't even feel it next to the boost.

How many PSI are you running?

astevens26 01-18-2012 10:22 AM

im currently running 5.7 which is stock for the greddy kit.i have the overboost feature with the greddy profec e01 which i have set at 7.5.i dont wanna go over that til i get my fuel system mods which are next on the list

zoom44 01-18-2012 11:16 AM

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