Good Throttle Body Spacer?

[e-caban]

What are some good ones out there? prices too? do they work well? I haven't found much on them on here, I already have a K&N cold air intake.

 

[KidVermicious]

I haven't found much on them on here,

Clue number one, right there.

 

[LittleCaesar]

Unless you are rocking a carb on your 5vz, spend your money wisely elsewhere. If you crave more power, buy a supercharger.

Or contact fellow member Singtoe for an in-depth V8 swap tutorial.

 

[THEREALTOR1]

This looks like a good one:

You can also search "paperweights" on google, they should give you some good results.

Just kidding of course, but don't waste your money (unless you buy "the tornado")

 

[SoAZ4Runner]

Once the tornado adds a tornado then it'll be worth it!

 

[Hacker]

The best throttle body spacer is the one you don't buy.

 

[RonMAIDEN]

The 3.4 along with many moden engines are direct port injection meaning the fuel and air don't meet til they are in the combustion chamber rendering a throttle body spacer useless.

 

[Maritimer]

Where can I get a Tornado?

 

[KSWAY]

^^^^^ Texas?

 

[newmexrunner]

i had an airaid throttle body spacer installed and it really did make a difference in throttle response. right now i also have a K&N Cold air intake as well and they go great together!

 

[theizzardking]

is this like asking for the good kind of herpes?

 

[Maritimer]

^^^^^ Texas?

Everything's Big in Texas! :cowboy:

 

[knoxrocks222]

Just send me the money you were going to spend on it and I'll mail you the deed to my ocean front beach house in Iowa............they are a waste of money unless you have a carburator and your air and fuel are mixed before it gets to the cylender you would be better off getting a whistle tip.....woooo wooooooooooo

 

[spectre6000]

Saying something is dumb is probably not very helpful. It was touched on briefly, but not in a way likely to help someone learn why.

Throttle spacers work in carbureted engines by changing the length of the fuel runner and allowing for more thorough atomization of the fuel and giving it more time to warm up (even more atomization). Even in a carbureted fuel system, the spacers are not long enough to make much of a change. Say the A/F mixture is in the runner for 12 inches, a BIG spacer would be all of an inch and change the length of the runner by only 8%. Add to that knowledge the fact that the charge is in the runners for mere fractions of a second, and you're really not talking about much in terms of heat being transferred. You're probably not getting much of an effect from the additional length either for that matter...

Meanwhile, despite minimal (if any) gains in a carbureted engine, they don't work in a modern port injected engine at all because the throttle only controls air flow and fuel enters the charge well after the throttle body. Since there's no fuel in the air at the point of the throttle body in a fuel injected engine, there is no effect on the charge. If anything, it would lessen the turbulence in the air and reduce the atomization (again, minimal to no effect).

 

[Bretski1]

Just send me the money you were going to spend on it and I'll mail you the deed to my ocean front beach house in Iowa............they are a waste of money unless you have a carburator and your air and fuel are mixed before it gets to the cylender you would be better off getting a whistle tip.....woooo wooooooooooo

Glad to see a fellow Tosh.0 viewer. Whistle tips be like yo' alarm clock.

 

[jij0226]

The best one I've used is the oem gasket that mine came with:biggrin2:

 

[GottaBeTRD]

what you need is this!!