Throttle Body Spacer

by **rossman945** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 1:44 pm

Have any of you guys tried putting a throttle body spacer in your Solara? My friend put one in his Civic and he had a pretty good gain of power and because of that I'm interested in getting one. Tell me what your opinion is...

Ross

by **bassthrive** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:28 pm

your civic friend probably also told you he got a huge gain from his fart can and Type-R stickers. :roll:

though I remember reading somewhere that they work well with large displacement engines, I still think for our application a tb spacer is a waste of money, just like the tornado fuel saver and those ebay MAF resistors.

by **rossman945** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:42 pm

HAHAH, yah I give him crap about that stuff too. Do you kno any guys that have put a throttle body spacer in their Solara's?

by **SC V6** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:45 pm

whats the purpose of a spacer?

by **SC V6** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:46 pm

other than the space of course.. whats the point to the extra horsepower.. the theory behind it

by **StockSolara** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:52 pm

haha yeah I never saw how that spacer will work but i guess if you extend it than the volume in the intake manifold is increased. . . i think owell

by **Midias** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 4:38 pm

the spacer is designed to increase runner length and change your power band

by **TRD MCV20L** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:15 pm

Ive seen those spacers in Tacomas.

by **rossman945** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 6:18 pm

Yeah, theres something on the inside of it, grooves that I think make the air spiral. I dont know the purpose though.

by **Akfahad** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:25 pm

rossman945 wrote:Yeah, theres something on the inside of it, grooves that I think make the air spiral. I dont know the purpose though.

If there are indeed grooves to make the air spiral, it's done so that the air becomes more compressable. The more air is compressed the more power you get. (Although, I'm only bassing my knowledge on this based on what they taught us on the Blackhawk engine's...I'm not a mechanic, so I could be wrong).

Josh

by **bassthrive** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:10 pm

The thing I dont get is that how can there be compression of air in the intake manifold? More specifically, how is this compression achieved by simply enlarging the volume of the intake chamber?

There is vaccuum in a N/A engine intake. Unless you run FI you will not see boost.

by **~Spadwaller~** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:14 pm

One word

by **Fletch** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:26 pm

Sounds like it adds as much power as coolant throttle bypass...

by **ClassySolaraGuy** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:35 pm

~Spadwaller~ wrote:One word

Haha

by **Akfahad** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:20 pm

ClassySolaraGuy wrote:
~Spadwaller~ wrote:One word

Haha

hehehe, too funny :lol:

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