Originally Posted by chrs1313

have you ever ran the car at the track...

Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369

3 separate occasions. Once when I was lid/catback only with 2.73's and twice when I added a cutout. I haven't been to the track since July '07.

Originally Posted by chrs1313

so what were the times...

Originally Posted by firefighting1101

chris how many mm are the billet tb's giong to be...they look very nice!

Originally Posted by 99blancoSS

they are 92mm

Originally Posted by ChocoTaco369

I've been wanting to order a ported throttle body for months now, but I've been delaying since I've been away at school in Philly and I keep my car in Jersey. I can count on one hand the number of days I've driven it since the summer started.

Well, I've been interested now that one of our sponsors have started carrying Jantzer throttle bodies. I was interested in his because he doesn't knife edge the blade or do that useless 'epoxy mod' crap. All that stuff does is screw with your idle and risk blowing up your motor with a nice chunk of epoxy in the combustion chamber.

Well, I finally planned on coming home this weekend for some family stuff, and Chris @ Ccperformance was running a special in the sponsor sales section, so I finally decided to pull the trigger on it. The only problem was he was shipping all the way from Oregon and I live in New Jersey and I didn't even see the special until Monday night. I gave him a call Wednesday morning at 12pm ET (9am PT, his time) to order the part and pray it got here on time. I wanted a black powdercoated throttle body for my car and lo and behold, he had one in stock. By the time I got off the train yesterday, it was already at my house.

Yup, from Oregon to New Jersey in 2 days! Niiiccceeee.

I've seen plenty of threads on ported TB's, and they all seem to show one, two or no pics at all, and I think this makes a lot of people really reluctant to pull the trigger on these things. I've tried to take some comprehensive shots of the piece for you guys because, really, it's a beautiful work of art.



















Sorry if that might be a little excessive for a throttle body, but I want you guys to get the best idea possible. The kit also came with a free throttle body bypass, and you can see that attached in the second to last picture.

The results:

Throttle response is definitely a hell of a lot better. As for power, I'm not going to sit here and tell you that I can feel a difference or not because honestly, if you can seriously detect 5-10rwhp, you're a special human being. I believe most people feel those small gains in their heads only. Plus, my car is so out of tune from the headers and cutout, it's hard to judge any SOTP gain correctly The increase in throttle response is definitely there, though.

So, for the increase in throttle response and the beautiful look alone, it's worth it. I'm sure I gained power, but I'll never know how much. Every little bit helps.

Thanks Chris for the insanely fast shipping and the nice TB. I'm going to put the core in the mail today and have it sent back to you.

To those of you afraid to do the ported TB swap yourself (and I'm sure they're out there), it's really easy. It takes about 40 minutes with 20 of those minutes getting the bottom right coolant hose off You need one of those funky star-shaped screwdrivers to get the screws for the sensors off. The sensors come on the ported TB from Jantzer and the top sensor has the screws already on there, so you just have to swap the screws over on the bottom sensor. You can see what part you need on www.ls1howto.com but any decent ratchet set probably comes with it. I have a Craftsman ~250 piece set and it had everything. You'll also need a 10mm socket and about 7 paper towels to catch all the coolant that spills out. I figured one would be enough...WRONG!