Individual throttle bodies
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Individual throttle bodies
I saw this setup on a honda s2000 and it sounded really mean. after doing some research, i found that some ferrari engines used this setup as well. I was wondering if any c4's in here run them or have heard about using them with a sbc v8.
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Originally Posted by C4ankenstein
I saw this setup on a honda s2000 and it sounded really mean. after doing some research, i found that some ferrari engines used this setup as well. I was wondering if any c4's in here run them or have heard about using them with a sbc v8.
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Originally Posted by C4ankenstein
I saw this setup on a honda s2000 and it sounded really mean. after doing some research, i found that some ferrari engines used this setup as well. I was wondering if any c4's in here run them or have heard about using them with a sbc v8.
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This setup is from Hilborn, they supplied the stacks already converted to EFI. Each pair of TBs hold two 2 11/16" OD throttle plates, multiply that by 4 and you have a lot of TB square footage. The engine has Brodix 18 deg heads and a HUGE cam, with 260ish duration numbers and .700+ lift. One nice thing about this setup is that with individual stacks, there is no cam reversion because there isn't a common plenum area. So that in itself tames the cam, this car has amazing driving qualities with such a large cam.
Just bear in mind that tuning something like this is a RPITA. I tuned this set up that is a Dart Iron Eagle 427 SBC using a GM MEFI4 controller. The tunining bill exceeded $1800 worth of dyno time. And that was after someone else attempted to tune it and didn't suceed.
Last edited by tjwong; Dec 25, 2005 at 04:05 PM.
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