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Old 07-11-2006, 08:56 AM
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Default Picked up a P/P TB, opinions? *pictures*
Just thought I'd see what you guys think! Thanks!



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Old 07-11-2006, 09:58 AM
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kinda hard to see from the pics, but looks nice
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That throttle bodies nice, but that shirt your wearing is even nicer
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Originally Posted by farnoush
That throttle bottles nice, but that shirt your wearing is even nicer


Looks like Boyd Coddington!

Nice TB though! Someone spent some time on that one.
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did you knife edge it? It is hard to tell in the second pic.

Looks good though.

When I did mine, I didn't use the filler for the sensor area.
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Looks pretty good.
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Old 07-11-2006, 12:24 PM
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No knifing, and I don't know that I will knife the edge before installing it, as I do not want to threaten the idle..
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Old 07-11-2006, 12:34 PM
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No knifing, and I don't know that I will knife the edge before installing it, as I do not want to threaten the idle..
You'll only just trimming the 12 o clock/6 o clock of the throttle body blade thickness.
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Old 07-11-2006, 01:16 PM
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what would be the best method of accomplishing this.. i don't want to go overkill
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Old 07-11-2006, 02:52 PM
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Blade has been drilled for a cam, you runnin a larger cam?
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Yes you can replace the blade. What year is your car and what year did this TB come from? You might need to swap out the shafts/cam on the TB's as well. If you're not sure what year car it came from, swap the shafts anyway.

Make sure to use some blue loctite on the screws when re-installing the blade.
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No, I'm not... Is this going to severly affect my idle? Can I Replace this blade with the one from my stock TB?
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It came from a 2001, so the shaft and cam should be fine. how hard will swaping the blade's be?
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It came from a 2001, so the shaft and cam should be fine. how hard will swaping the blade's be?
Do you see those 2 torq screws on the blade? Unscrew them. Blade should slide right out behind the TB when you open it up.
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Originally Posted by Bo White
Blade has been drilled for a cam, you runnin a larger cam?
Yeah, I noticed about that hole was a little bigger than my TB hole.


Also you see in this picture how my blade is sharpened both on opposite ends.
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Another look at the blade's edge.
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dyno tune for me, no larger of a hole necessary
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bene, what tools did you use to knife the blade like that? would there be other downsides to leaving the current blade other than higher idle lower mpg? and would there be any benefits?
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also guys, does anyone know what the stock inner diameter of that hole is? i'll measure the ported tb with a caliper and see what it comes up.. how severly would this affect idle? in terms of rpm
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.145" on the #70125 blade(mostly on truck TBs) and .165" on the #79651 blade.
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