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Old Feb 27, 2004 | 10:38 PM
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Default VR Velocity Stacks

Has anyone ever installed this on their car? It is designed to improve airflow in the throttle body WITHOUT actually porting it. Here is what the manufacturer claims:
"The VR velocity stack was designed to reshape the factory throttle-body in order to boost air flow velocity at each given RPM. The overall shape of each VR velocity stack has undergone some of the most intensive airflow research that we have ever done to produce the best overall shape for each engine's airflow requirements. In order to achieve this we:"

Is this mod worth it? Anyone with real-world #'s??

here is the link: http://vararam.com/products03.html
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Old Feb 27, 2004 | 10:46 PM
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Default Re: VR Velocity Stacks (pettrix)

I dunno...pretty big claim - "22 Ft\Lb of additional torque. I've gotta think if GM could have added that kind of power with a piece of plastic or a reshape of the cast, they would've done it.

Who's gonna bolt this on and dyno for the rest of us? ;)
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Old Feb 27, 2004 | 10:54 PM
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Default Re: VR Velocity Stacks (Rob Razor)

I don't think it would really do too much if anything at all, i'm sure there is someone here that has one just got to wait till they chime in.
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Old Feb 28, 2004 | 01:06 AM
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Default Re: VR Velocity Stacks (411_monkey)

Looks like just a restriction in the intake tract to me.
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