Throttle Body Spacers

[LearjetMinako]

Guess I better break it down. The reason why I did a poll, is to come to a conculsion of if I should remove the PowerAid throttle spacer that my dad put on my mom's 96 Blazer. We have noticed no gains in power, response, or MPG. What we did notice was a whistle noise one day. I thought at first something has broken under the hood. Only to find out later, that my dad in the dead of night installed this TB spacer. Against my mother's wishes and opinions. My dad wants my power, my mom wants a realible vehicle. And the thing is, its not his vehicle.

So I think it has come down to this. I can't find any proof that just a TB spacer can improve anything. Even thou I do see it installed on some shows, but with a full sweep of other improvements (ECU, intake, exhuast). So I guess I will need to do a dyno run on it to prove it, once and for all. And while I'm at it, get the Ranger on the dyno too, just for kicks.

 

[bilzy7]

Ohh god... From 145 hp to 148 here we come!!!

 

[BlackBII]

They're a complete waste of money. Adding 1/2" to the length of your plenum does absolutely nothing to the max volume of each individual cylinder, and since we mostly discuss port injected fuel systems on here, fuel atomization is not a point of argument.

 

[AllanD]

I've seen ONNE TB spacer on a 4.0 engine in a junkyard and I still kinda kick myself for not grabbing it because after it was gone I thought of a use for it....

It would be THE perfect place to drill a hole for a Nitrous "Fogger" Nozzle
without drilling holes in anything I actually gave a damn about.

AD

 

[cammeddrz]

It would be THE perfect place to drill a hole for a Nitrous "Fogger" Nozzle

^^ i did this very thing on my 1997 camaro, except i drilled and tapped 4 holes (2 in each butterfly), just to find out that 2 of them hit the butterflies, allowing only partial throttle. so i just put brass plugs in and ran the other 2

 

[bigblockford79]

sooo dumb question, what do these guys do for a carb'd engine?

You add a spacer between the carb base and intake manifold.

 

[heptofite]

you want to build serious power, get a long tube intake, **** spacers, go for gold.

long tube intake manifold and some good headers, get that puppy flowin, real torque buildin kinda stuff.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

According to who has posted here thats all I need to know. My truck will NEVER see one.