04Green

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@ sweatr.

Do not block, bypass.

Look back a page or two for why.

sweatr

@04Green: Thanks...Got it.

Sephitrask

I see in your sig that you live in the rocky mountains? If it gets below freezing were you live do not do this mod, unless you want your throttle body to ice up on you. It is possible, trust me, I have had it happen to me before (not on the 8 though).

Fickert

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And also not to be "critisizing" but you could have searched for a throttle body mod. It is very common to bypass. But again, like Sephitrask said it could freeze up with low temps. (I searched after I read this because I didn't know if this was true or not).

Welcome to the club, and a little hint, I got ripped for never using the search function when I first joined here, and now I know better. There is so much valuable info on this forum that I learn so much about my own car every day. So just search and search before going and asking questions. And everyone is a critic, so you will get some bad compliments. Just gotta look past em, and wait for the people that actually want to help you. No need to make our club sounds like **** when you don't know how to properly include yourself in it...

TeamRX8

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You could have been adult enough to shrug it off rather than post all that

Otherwise its a pointless mod that only leads uninformed enthusiasts to think they accomplished something useful. You will be much better served trying to figure out how to reduce the entire engine bay from being a 200+ degF oven



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alnielsen

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The air isn't in the throttle body long enough to heat it. How are you going to cool the LIM.

sweatr

@Fickert: Good points. It was never my intention to make the club look like **** or any thing of the sort. If a person is rude to a newbe, please don't be immature and expect to not get a come back. This is a great site. That and a buck will get you a cup of coffee at 7-11. I am new and I don't believe even you can support the rude remarks as the clubs intended way to introduce a new person to the rx8 club do ya?. If not just except the fact some were rude , i'm new and I reacted and that is a rap on that crap right.

I did the mod and it was easy and now I am trying to figure a way to use the throttle body water jacket to cool the throttle body in summer. I will try to get pics from phone to here.

sweatr

@team RX8: The rude ones should have been adult enough to not be rude in the first place right lol. Learned that from a mom and a dad. he he.

wcs

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What are all these "rude" remarks you keep going on and on about?
Just because people are sarcastic and don't baby you like some self entitled child does not make the comments rude.

The following is taken for RIWWP New Owner thread.
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discuss...t-here-202454/

Why are we so hard / harsh on newbies?
You may notice that many new owners join this forum and promptly create a thread that generates lots of negative feedback from the people already here, the newbie ends up getting butthurt about it and claims it's a "mean forum" or "we are all dicks", etc... Not every newbie of course, and just the fact that you are reading this thread means you probably won't subject yourself to that. But why do we do it?

Here is a fantastic post from TeamRX8 on why.
Quote:
Originally Posted by TeamRX8
This involves several issues. The first being that you can't see beyond your own immediate needs and wants. This is not Wiki8Club. It took many of us years and years of involvement and reading to amass the knowledge.

Imagine somebody coming here daily, in fact it is often multiple people daily, asking if not demanding the same information over and over again. We are not your on demand servants. We are people just like you with other priorities and demands in our lives, limited time, our own personal interests for being here, etc. Why should we spend that time catering to people that come here seeking instant gratification?

That leaves us with two options. We can either ignore you completely or we can tell that the info is here if you bother to make the effort. However, over several years of telling people this you eventually get fed up dealing with the continuous stream of people seeking instant gratification yet you still would rather point them in the right direction so you just bark at them to get the point across. Imagine someone coming to your house, going to your living room, pulling their pants down, and taking a dump right there on the carpet just because they didn't know any better. You might be annoyed and yet also understanding because they didn't know any better. Now imagine this being a different person doing this every day. It wouldn't be long before you just as soon they go away and never come back.

Almost every day there is some clueless dolt posting a tech or troubleshooting question in the DiY area, despite there being a sticky thread at the top saying to only post threads there with DIY instructions and subsequent discussion of same. The real issue is that people think they are free to just come here and do as they damn well please and there's no need for etiquette, rules, structure, or organization unless it serves their own personal interest.

Well guess what? We're not here to cater to new uninformed people that come in here trampling all over everything regardless if they're ignorant, just don't care, or whatever. This is like any social community and so if you make waves you better expect to deal with it. If you don't like it then get the f' out because the established community could care less about some newbie whining about not getting what they want immediately. We do care about you clogging up the search engine with useless threads on already established subjects, which there is a dedicated thread on this very subject in this same forum area no less. It took me 10 minutes to explain this. Now imagine multiple people daily requiring it, so you make a Sticky thread at the top that says "read this first" and yet every single new person just like yourself thinks they are beyond trying to fit in properly so that this forum operates smoothly for all of us.

You probably don't read Japanese, but the line in my sig is a well known Japanese proverb that reads "the nail that sticks out gets hammered". You made yourself that nail.

A prime example of the crap we have to deal with from newbies is here in this thread: Need mods PLEASE don't be that guy.

Most of the people that are being the hammer for those nails use either the New Posts feature (https://www.rx8club.com/search.php?do=getnew) or the Live! feature (RX8 Live!) (both are in your top bar under the banner), and see posts with issues pretty quickly. We do not use these features with the express intention of flaming and bashing. We use them so that when someone posts up an actual issue that needs actual help, we can react quickly to their request.

We do not do this because we are paid to do it, we do it because we believe in our community (at one level or another). We want to improve it and make it better, so as we have time during our normal lives we look for issues we can help with, we look for new ideas, new projects, etc... But, in the process, we see all the garbage that people clutter the forum with because they feel themselves above reading what has already been posted, and that garbage gets to us. So thank you for reading, and your help is certainly appreciated in guiding people this way too.

You should also read this
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discuss...rx-8-a-233937/

Other great threads
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-discuss...llowed-208221/

https://www.rx8club.com/tech-garage-...t-here-222280/

So when you said you did the mod ... did you do the mod the way you did wanted to or did you do the by-pass as described in this DIY.

What is it you hope to gain from doing this mod?

For the record this was one of my first mods about 7 years ago. I've never seen any adverse or positive effects.
That being said I've also moved from NA to NA with NO2 to TC so my car setup doesn't exactly stay static for long.


And lastly ... You wood/block/plug method whatever you want to call it, is too me, Ghetto.

And I know ghetto, my current TC setup is the poster child of ghetto. Honestly it's my next project to get that POS looking pretty.

sweatr

@wcs: Aside from your harsh comments , I did the mod as posted and indeed it was easy and my home made ram air worked out very well at freeway speeds. Singing off "The Nail".. Cute.

charlie419

http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=VAibUWOhtxc

sweatr

If you do the mod, you better hide it because you will fail the emissions here in the rocky mountains. Just FYI.



" A nail holds things together".

sE7ENs

Got a 5/16 barb from Ace for $1, I wanted to re-route the coolant hose just to clean up around the top of the throttle body. Cut the top hose back till I could barb it under the strut bar next to the alternator.

04Green

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you are still using a hose clamp, right? not just the barb?

sweatr

No clamp = Bloosh! Oh ****!.

sE7ENs

Haha!! Right! Yeah, I replaced the old clamps with new screw hose clamps on each side of the barb. Was such a tight squeeze I had a little coolant spill and that burning off after a test run scared me bad enough!

RIWWP

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I moved all of the 2010+ discussion about the value of doing this to it's own thread in Tech.

The debate isn't really appropriate here.

If you want to see the debate, click here: https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tec...thread-245771/

I am adding this link to the first page of the DIY as well.

ShellDude

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Oh shoot RIWWP... I must've replied as you were moving stuff.

Sorry about that.

sweatr

It is a bad useless mod at this point.

mazdarxuk

This is my method dont need any parts and alot quicker.

remove the top coolant pipe from TB. now follow bottom coolant pipe from TB to end of pipe. near omp, remove this pipe, now insert the first pipe you removed into this tube. now you are left with just the bottom coolant hose from TB, blow into this to remove any coolant, now cut to size and fit end to top TB pipe. Done,

this way no need for joiners or end caps or removal of TB, and makes it look factory.

EmoMetalSk8r

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I live in Vegas and the lowest it'll get is around 30 degrees in the dead of night, so i don't have to worry about my TB freezing up! i'll be doing this mod as soon as i get state-side!

NathanSGee

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For those still interested in this i performed this last night about 930 in the dark with a small 1 LED flashlight (i dont have a mag light)

Autozone sells 3/8 barb slices (two a set with four screw clamps) for 1.99 will take pics later if anyone is interested in how i did mine.

RIWWP

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More debate posts moved to the debate thread. Not appropriate in the DIY thread.

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-tec...ussion-245771/

RIWWP

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It's been linked a lot over the years:

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-...-forum-163653/

RIWWP

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It's been linked a lot over the years:

https://www.rx8club.com/series-i-do-...-forum-163653/