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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:05 am 
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does any one know where i can get a bigger throttle body for an ED XR6 i have the stock 1 in now but i want to get a bigger one, and if so how much am i looking at?

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:28 am 
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We dont know where to get a bigger throttle body.

'bigger' throttle bodies (or injectors for that matter) wont give you a performance increase as your car has all the fuel it needs.
At great expence some people have had customized two or 'dual' throttle bodies as they are known. This has only been done to motors already worked off there tits and even then the gain is difficult to measure.

If you want to improve your current throttle body the best way to do it is to ensure the butterflies are nice and clean and well lubed and to 'polish' you existing TB.

Some people have kicked around the idea of a helix spacer on the TB but to my knowlage its never been done.

For more information run a search as throttle bodies have been covered many many times before.

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 12:47 am 
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the falcon throttle body is quite large actually, so larger isnt really needed.

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:14 am 
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There are a few workshops around SA that will machine out stock TBs from 65mm to 68mm so I suppose just ask around. As said above, the stock TB is easily big enough and unless you have a seriously worked engine you wont see any gains at all.

For what its worth, my engine which puts out around 150rwkw depending on the dyno recorded 1rwkw less with a TB ported to 68mm (and polished) over the stock TB.

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 9:12 am 
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I agree with the other fellas.
A 65mm TB is plenty big enough for a 4L motor, hell its even big enough for a half healthy 5.0
The money would be better spent elsewhere on other mods.

 

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:58 pm 
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alright then fellas that really helps cause i was just not sure ay
thanks heaps it did help

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Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 7:59 pm 
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alright then fellas that really helps cause i was just not sure ay
thanks heaps it did help

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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:45 pm 
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have a chat to spider_gt. he has/had his standard t/b bored out. so it might be woth haveing a chatto him

 

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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 10:27 pm 
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Throtle body may be large enough but your air intake may require some mods.

My EA used to if reved hard enough would colapse the hose between airbox and throttlebody we ended up putting extra springs inside to help reduce problem still happens if you open throttle too quick. these days I dont tend to do so much as even in the dry it tend to creep sideways even with LSD.

 

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Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 11:08 pm 
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If you wanna get some gain on the intake look at fitting the BBM manifold

 

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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:01 am 
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dude i used to run a ported out throttle body i found no difference at all unless your running mega kind of power it is not needed
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Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:34 am 
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opto wrote:
If you wanna get some gain on the intake look at fitting the BBM manifold


I dont think It will make that much difference it will allow it to rev really quickly but you lose torque

My EA has old EA manifold and my brothers EA had an EF BBM
You could get it to rev very qucikly but it required a fair few revs to get it moving.

We never go a chance to run them side by side to see which one could move quciker my brother smashed the car headon into a power pole 3 weeks after the conversion from CFI to BBM MPFI.

 

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