Check this out....input please
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Check this out....input please http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=1842442004
This is what I was afraid of :frust: . I bought the SLP version ($30).....will this be the eventual outcome (burning holes in my pistons) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="gr_images/icons/mad.gif" /> . I plan on keeping the Hawk for awhile. Inquiring minds WANT TO KNOW!
I have the trottle body by-pass (BMR-$12) and was going to remove it (it looks cheesey and I really can't see it giving any gains). Will it warp plates in my trottle body? Inquiring minds WANT TO KNOW!
Thanks!
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
This is what I was afraid of :frust: . I bought the SLP version ($30).....will this be the eventual outcome (burning holes in my pistons) <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="images/icons/confused.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="gr_images/icons/mad.gif" /> . I plan on keeping the Hawk for awhile. Inquiring minds WANT TO KNOW!
I have the trottle body by-pass (BMR-$12) and was going to remove it (it looks cheesey and I really can't see it giving any gains). Will it warp plates in my trottle body? Inquiring minds WANT TO KNOW!
Thanks!
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
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Re: Check this out....input please TBB is a good mod. you'll be fine....if you can live with yourself after spending $15 on what you could have done with two clamps and a piece of metal pipe...or just one long hose.[/QB][/QUOTE]
What is SO good about it? I don't drive the car in the Winter, so I don't need it warming my fuel. $15(I guess you included shipping) is a half of a tank of Sunoco Ultra 94. Or I paid over $30K for my car so I not going to hang myself because I spent $15 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
What is SO good about it? I don't drive the car in the Winter, so I don't need it warming my fuel. $15(I guess you included shipping) is a half of a tank of Sunoco Ultra 94. Or I paid over $30K for my car so I not going to hang myself because I spent $15 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
Re: Check this out....input please </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 99Hawk#196:
<strong>What is SO good about it? I don't drive the car in the Winter, so I don't need it warming my fuel. $15(I guess you included shipping) is a half of a tank of Sunoco Ultra 94. Or I paid over $30K for my car so I not going to hang myself because I spent $15 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The TBB (Throttle Body Bypass) mod re-routes the normally very hot coolant water (210+ deg F on stock cooling and block) away from the throttle body. If you don't drive your car in the winter, then this is defiantly a mod that you should be interested in. Typically GM has this there to warm the intake charge on cold days. Unfortunately, during the summer months the only thing that the throttle body warming serves is to overheat the intake charge. This is bad. The warmer the intake charge, the more possibility that you are going to detonate (very bad, not good for your car). I doubt that this is a 'HP' mod, but for most of us who face detonation and knock retard problems as it is, the cooler the intake charge the better.
Nobody on this board is trying to Hang you.
It is your car though, so do with it what you feel comfortable doing.
<strong>What is SO good about it? I don't drive the car in the Winter, so I don't need it warming my fuel. $15(I guess you included shipping) is a half of a tank of Sunoco Ultra 94. Or I paid over $30K for my car so I not going to hang myself because I spent $15 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The TBB (Throttle Body Bypass) mod re-routes the normally very hot coolant water (210+ deg F on stock cooling and block) away from the throttle body. If you don't drive your car in the winter, then this is defiantly a mod that you should be interested in. Typically GM has this there to warm the intake charge on cold days. Unfortunately, during the summer months the only thing that the throttle body warming serves is to overheat the intake charge. This is bad. The warmer the intake charge, the more possibility that you are going to detonate (very bad, not good for your car). I doubt that this is a 'HP' mod, but for most of us who face detonation and knock retard problems as it is, the cooler the intake charge the better.
Nobody on this board is trying to Hang you.
It is your car though, so do with it what you feel comfortable doing.
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Re: Check this out....input please </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 99Hawk#196:
<strong>What is SO good about it? I don't drive the car in the Winter, so I don't need it warming my fuel. $15(I guess you included shipping) is a half of a tank of Sunoco Ultra 94. Or I paid over $30K for my car so I not going to hang myself because I spent $15 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL! have fun with your car man. lol
<strong>What is SO good about it? I don't drive the car in the Winter, so I don't need it warming my fuel. $15(I guess you included shipping) is a half of a tank of Sunoco Ultra 94. Or I paid over $30K for my car so I not going to hang myself because I spent $15 <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="images/icons/rolleyes.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">LOL! have fun with your car man. lol
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Re: Check this out....input please man, i bought the tbb from BMR and i feel like such a jackass. i'll probably just replace it with a single hose and re-connect the hoses in winter. btw, is it an issue for the tbb to be hanging on the idler pulley? it doesn't look like it will snag on anything, but i'm paranoid.
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Re: Check this out....input please uh....what are you talking about. that crap on ebay is a joke. those SLP deals are a joke. its just a resister to help bump timing which doesnt always work.
TBB is a good mod. you'll be fine....if you can live with yourself after spending $15 on what you could have done with two clamps and a piece of metal pipe...or just one long hose.
TBB is a good mod. you'll be fine....if you can live with yourself after spending $15 on what you could have done with two clamps and a piece of metal pipe...or just one long hose.
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Re: Check this out....input please </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 2000TA:
<strong>man, i bought the tbb from BMR and i feel like such a jackass. i'll probably just replace it with a single hose and re-connect the hoses in winter. btw, is it an issue for the tbb to be hanging on the idler pulley? it doesn't look like it will snag on anything, but i'm paranoid.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I felt the same way....I tie wrapped it to a hose so it wouldn't contact that pulley.
Tom
<strong>man, i bought the tbb from BMR and i feel like such a jackass. i'll probably just replace it with a single hose and re-connect the hoses in winter. btw, is it an issue for the tbb to be hanging on the idler pulley? it doesn't look like it will snag on anything, but i'm paranoid.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I felt the same way....I tie wrapped it to a hose so it wouldn't contact that pulley.
Tom
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Re: Check this out....input please [/QUOTE]LOL! have fun with your car man. lol[/QB][/QUOTE]
LOL....I will man, I will....LOL
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
<small>[ July 12, 2002, 11:00 AM: Message edited by: 99Hawk#196 ]</small>
LOL....I will man, I will....LOL
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
<small>[ July 12, 2002, 11:00 AM: Message edited by: 99Hawk#196 ]</small>
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Re: Check this out....input please </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by DaddySS:
<strong>Easy Tom.......... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where have you been, hanging out in the SLP SS section? I'm taking it easy, but I spent the $12-15 for the TBB and this guy tells me I hope I can live with myself after spending the money....sorry I'm not a mech.
Also I'd spend $30 just not to go to the Home Depot for hoses and clamps <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />
<strong>Easy Tom.......... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="gr_grin.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Where have you been, hanging out in the SLP SS section? I'm taking it easy, but I spent the $12-15 for the TBB and this guy tells me I hope I can live with myself after spending the money....sorry I'm not a mech.
Also I'd spend $30 just not to go to the Home Depot for hoses and clamps <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="gr_images/icons/wink.gif" />
Tom <img border="0" alt="[Firebird]" title="" src="graemlins/formula.gif" />