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TB porting...What is good to use to fill in holes?

Old 02-22-2006, 08:04 AM
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Default TB porting...What is good to use to fill in holes?

What is good to use to fill in the stockholes on the TB? Any kind of epoxy, JB Weld? What are most peo. using? I dont want something that will come apart or that I have to get from NASA either. Thanks
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I used JB Weld....worked nicely IMO.
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jb weld works.

my humble opinion however is that its not worth the time to do it, dynos have shown no gain by filling in that section
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I think that is looks cleaner with it filled in and polished down. It would be a minimal gain at best, but if you want to do it the way that you would pay to have it done....Filling it in is how you would want to do it.
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Thanks guys...anyone else chime in?
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Nothing works pretty good too
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I actually sold one that was ported with the epoxy mod by a well know company, And put my stocker back on ported by Bo White. And thought it was actually better.
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If you fill it, use a putty version of the filler, not the squeezeable liquid type...

The liquid, even when it starts to set up, will keep slowing flowing when you don't want it to, getting into the iac solenoid seat area.
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I used J-B Weld but did it in three layers baking it after
each overnight in the oven. I used aluminum foil to make
"dams" in the ports and the first coat was just a seal &
tooth coat.


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