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Old 01-18-2012, 01:15 AM
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Default So I ported and polished my TB today, and Whistler mod

So I ported and polished my TB today, I think it came out pretty good. I would like to have polished it more, but it was very smooth as it was.

I re installed it, it feels like the throttle is more responsive, but that could be just in my mind.

I know you guys have seen this a million times, but I thought I'd share anyways.


EDIT: added a pic of the whistler mod. Yes, I'm on a doughnut at the moment.

It looks like I painted where I wasn't supposed to on the high beam, but I didn't. It's just a reflection.
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Did a damn good job
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Very good work
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What did you use to do it with?
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Hmmm 3 x's by your attached thumbnails on my page
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What would the whistler mod do to a 102mm?
Old 01-18-2012, 09:46 AM
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You did your porting pretty good. You have some more meat left but overall it turned out nice.
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Thanks for the compliments guys.


Originally Posted by bstuby
What did you use to do it with?

Just used my dremel with the sanding drums, then I used the polishing wheels for it.


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What would the whistler mod do to a 102mm?
Whistler mod has to do with painting part of the headlights black.
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Originally Posted by bene
You did your porting pretty good. You have some more meat left but overall it turned out nice.

Thanks a lot man.

Much of that thickness is from the raised outer lip/rib that keeps the bellows from slipping off.

I didn't want to grind that off and have the bellows slip of or something.

EDIT: also, I didn't want to screw anything up if I went too deep.
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Originally Posted by sepsis
Whistler mod has to do with painting part of the headlights black.
oops I meant drilling the hole in the TB.
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Originally Posted by NVUSZ28
oops I meant drilling the hole in the TB.

That hole comes like that from the factory.

Well, mine came like that and it's a stock TB. If you make it bigger, your idle will go up.
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Those wheels are HOT!!!!
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pics no worky
Old 01-18-2012, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 14k
pics no worky


Strange. I uploaded them directly to the site. Might be something on your end.
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Why not do the bump stop mod so that you get 100% throttle blade opening. Just ported myne as well and the bump stop mod took Mayby ten mins.
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Tb looks good, not bad for first try.
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pics dont work for me either....maybe it has to do with the blackout against SOPA and PIPA
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Here's for the guys that can't see them.





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Originally Posted by reeperz28
Why not do the bump stop mod so that you get 100% throttle blade opening. Just ported myne as well and the bump stop mod took Mayby ten mins.

I'm gonna do the bump stop this weekend hopefully.
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Headlights look sweet. Good job.


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