if air is being sucked through it, the area in front will not have any effect. If it was forced in then the area in front could possibly benefit from it just by directing turbulence. The TB blade is smaller than the TB opening so no matter what you do to polish it, fill it, port it, you will not change the CFM's that flow through it.
7-8 rwhp?? how on earth is that possible? and where did you get that info?

 

yea I have plans on disassembling it tomm and wet sanding it and buffing it down real nice. It should look pretty good once its complete. And yes this picture is a TERRIBLE pic my digital camera was twenty bucks from walmart at christmas guys so seriously you get my drift LOL. But its better than nothing. I will update some better pics on my g/fs cam tomm...
I wish I would have done a before and after dyno to settle this issue maybe someone could do it sometime for all of us eager to know if were wasting our time or not.

 

The only thing that picture shows is how shitty your digital camera is.

Porting the throttle body is a proven mod, if done right, you are not wasting your time. The gain comes primarily from removing the lip before the thottle blade, and making sure the throttle blade opens to 90 degrees. Sanding, shining and epoxying the holes doesn't do much at all. If the search was working, you could find this stuff out.

 

I didn't know you could powercoat aluminum.

Surface finish doesn't matter. The important thing is the material removed. The resulting finish doesn't matter. It does not have to be polished to work just polished to look pretty/make you feel better about it.

Ben T.

 

There's a lip in front of the blade that actually makes the TB size smaller. By removing that lip in front you are increasing the area and smoothing the transition of the air. It's a proven mod to get ~5-10rwhp

 

Man I ported mine and used my cell phone to take the pic, and it didn't look like that! Not trying to be mean, but it doesn't even look like you ported it, but rather scuffed it up and mutilated the blade!

Here's what mine looks like. You need to get the ridge in front of the blade gone, and remove the lip at the outer edge of the tb mouth as well. Just trying to help

 

Yea Mines ported real nice now my blade was already like that. Mine looked like that too until I filled in the gap there on the side. You do that and see if it still looks like that....But ya man it does look great good job.

 

you cant be serious? picture yourself running a mile sucking air through a straw. its not gonna happen, the size of the whole IN FRONT of where the suction is taking place does effect it!

 

nice anaolgy!

 

Take your time. I didn't make my TB look like a mirror like some of the guys here but it still works. And I didn't fill in the gap.

It was posted that filling in the gap didn't result in any HP gain. Someone did a dyno run years back with it filled and not filled. So that part is completely up to you.

 

Guys...I honestly think you should pony up the $150 or so to have your TB professionally
ported if these are the results you're going to come up with. I don't mean that in a
negative way at all though. I commend you for attempting to mod your vehicles
yourselves. It's a lot of fun and can be rewarding. I can also be costly when you screw
things up. The difference in a professionally ported TB and the example here is fairly
significant in both appearance and performance. I suggest coughing up the money
for this one.

 

Mine looks great. Almost aftermarket, I just happen to have the proper tools to do a good job. It was teh first one i have ported, but iv worked with enough aluminum before the understand how to get it to do what i want

 

I think mine is as good as any

 

go for it . if it works and you save some bucks cool.