DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference?
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Burning Brakes
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DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference?
Responses from people that HAVE them fitted only please.
Please indicate your STRONGEST response
...That's all GREAT info folks, but out of 211 viewers of this Poll thus far, only 13 people have actually bothered to click on their choice...you peole must be TERRIBLE during a census! :lol:
[Modified by smacko, 12:21 PM 10/4/2003]
Please indicate your STRONGEST response
...That's all GREAT info folks, but out of 211 viewers of this Poll thus far, only 13 people have actually bothered to click on their choice...you peole must be TERRIBLE during a census! :lol:
[Modified by smacko, 12:21 PM 10/4/2003]
Burning Brakes
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Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (smacko)
For the $50 those junk things cost, you can have the front of your plenum ported and gain 3 times what the air foil will give you, whatever that is.
BIG JIM
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Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (smacko)
The DO have a 'weight reduction gain' benefit
They cause your wallet to be a little lighter. That'll give you a little performance gain.
Yes I DO have one. Put it on and couldn't tell a BIT of difference.
I didn't have the instrumentation to measure and quantify the 'weight reduction gain'.
As someone else said, it sure did LOOK good. Only problem is I couldn't SEE it anymore as soon as I reinstalled the air input hose.
They cause your wallet to be a little lighter. That'll give you a little performance gain.
Yes I DO have one. Put it on and couldn't tell a BIT of difference.
I didn't have the instrumentation to measure and quantify the 'weight reduction gain'.
As someone else said, it sure did LOOK good. Only problem is I couldn't SEE it anymore as soon as I reinstalled the air input hose.
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Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (BIG JIM 54)
For the $50 those junk things cost, you can have the front of your plenum ported and gain 3 times what the air foil will give you, whatever that is.
BIG JIM
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Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (Whitvette)
All it did for me is make the throttle body "mouth" more attractive. :jester
Melting Slicks
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From: Lebanon KY
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (corvette-pilot)
For the $50 those junk things cost, you can have the front of your plenum ported and gain 3 times what the air foil will give you, whatever that is.
BIG JIM
3 x nothing still = nothing :jester
BIG JIM
3 x nothing still = nothing :jester
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From: Oslo, Norway
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (smacko)
Hi.
I think there are much misunderstanding about this.
If you put one airfoil on a stock car the ndifference is not very much, hardly recognizable.
You have to mod your engine so that the limitation for more air in to the engine is the throttlebody without airfoil. If you then install the airfoil you will gain about 11 hp as they say. Allother factors limiting the airflow in to the engine will make the airfoil difference less and less.
I think there are much misunderstanding about this.
If you put one airfoil on a stock car the ndifference is not very much, hardly recognizable.
You have to mod your engine so that the limitation for more air in to the engine is the throttlebody without airfoil. If you then install the airfoil you will gain about 11 hp as they say. Allother factors limiting the airflow in to the engine will make the airfoil difference less and less.
Melting Slicks
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From: Texas
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (jan-erik)
Hi.
I think there are much misunderstanding about this.
If you put one airfoil on a stock car the ndifference is not very much, hardly recognizable.
You have to mod your engine so that the limitation for more air in to the engine is the throttlebody without airfoil. If you then install the airfoil you will gain about 11 hp as they say. Allother factors limiting the airflow in to the engine will make the airfoil difference less and less.
I think there are much misunderstanding about this.
If you put one airfoil on a stock car the ndifference is not very much, hardly recognizable.
You have to mod your engine so that the limitation for more air in to the engine is the throttlebody without airfoil. If you then install the airfoil you will gain about 11 hp as they say. Allother factors limiting the airflow in to the engine will make the airfoil difference less and less.
People have done this and still gained nothing :nonod: Do a search.
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From: Atlanta GA
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (jan-erik)
Hi.
I think there are much misunderstanding about this.
If you put one airfoil on a stock car the ndifference is not very much, hardly recognizable.
You have to mod your engine so that the limitation for more air in to the engine is the throttlebody without airfoil. If you then install the airfoil you will gain about 11 hp as they say. Allother factors limiting the airflow in to the engine will make the airfoil difference less and less.
I think there are much misunderstanding about this.
If you put one airfoil on a stock car the ndifference is not very much, hardly recognizable.
You have to mod your engine so that the limitation for more air in to the engine is the throttlebody without airfoil. If you then install the airfoil you will gain about 11 hp as they say. Allother factors limiting the airflow in to the engine will make the airfoil difference less and less.
But we all know the saying: If you THINK your mod works, then it was money well spent. :thumbs:
Drifting
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From: middle TN
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (dtorc4)
I installed an airfoil and K&N air filter at the same time and I could tell a difference...just barely...or maybe it was my caffiene buzz :skep:
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From: lakeland fl
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (BIG JIM 54)
OK....
I wish I could get as much response from my fuel pressure questions as this airfoil question always does.
BIG JIM
I wish I could get as much response from my fuel pressure questions as this airfoil question always does.
BIG JIM
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Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (smacko)
I bought 3 and painted them different colors. They make great paper weights ... stuff under the red one is high priority, must do today! :skep:
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From: hamilton square nj
Re: DO Throttle Body 'AIRFOILS' make a difference? (tuband)
i installed an air foil with some other intake goodies. they seemed to free up the engine in the upper rpm range around 5500-6300. before i put the mods on, K&N filter open air lid, granitelli MAF, T-body coolant bypass and relocated the IAT sensor, and air foil. the air foil i installed last and noticed the engine free up just a little. nothing huge but noticable. i now bounce off the rev limiter before the traps rather than while going through the traps. like i said nothing crazy, but noticable at the track. :steering: :auto: