Well i was considering putting a throttle body spacer on my 3.0 in my 98 ford ranger because i want to squeeze all the power i can out of the 3.0 in it. I have already bought headers when i had the custom exhaust put on it. So do you guys think a throttle body spacer will help me out with power? and if it will what brands do you guys recommend?
Honest truth... no. You are not gonna get any noticable difference out of it unless you have a huge V8 pushing a ton of air through it. All it is, is a very expensive spacer that has ridges on the inside. You want air moving fast into the upper intake, not air that will spin and not go down the runners smoothly. We put one on a 05 Stang GT and felt nothing. I would say invenst in a intake, exhaust, pullies, and ignition system. And then theres a few things that im doing under the V6 thread that will gain small numbers just by tripping parts down on the throttle body.
Throttle bodies are good for putting a hole in your pocket and emptying hem out! lol... what all doyou have done to the 3.0?
Well K&N air intake of course lol headers(didn't do much for the 3.0 power) custom exhaust lol its loud and not like **** loud either. Um New fuel injectors new coil packs. Havn't done much to it if you have any ideas for me so i can get some power shoot PLEASE
Sooo, I need some sound clips of this bad boy! LOL. what exhaust is it? I recently got some JBA 9mm spark plug wires from Stillen.com that are great! Check out this thread also for some small things to do... im gonna be updating it this weekend with more things:
well before my ranger i had cherry bomb extreme mufflers "recomended for race and offroad only" lol on all my vehicles but shhhhh lol but i wanted something more durable for i got a flowmaster fully welded for my truck cuz i go offroading every other day
find out the size if they are a km or km2 and how wore they are please lol i'm the local tire expert on here just like olford is the lighting guy and plumcrazy is the do everything urself fabrication and local ranger based vehicle dictionary guy and tom s. is the lowrideing ranger man and well it would take forever to name everyone and where they are great in their areas of expertese for info lol
I'm not a flowmaster fan. Too loud, too restrictive. Now a magnaflow straight through... Now that's a muffler. Barely noticeable at idle.. Roars when you mash it and has next to no restriction. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around how they work. Smarter guys than me.
As for the throttle body spacers, they were designed to trick old guys. Basically way back when, you put a phenolic spacer between your carb and your intake manifold. This helped keep the intake charge cooler and helped straighten the airflow after the venturies. This helped pull the air through the carb straighter offering better atomization. So when EFI came along and the injectors started being put in the ports, all this became null and void. BUT, the old carb guys who bought a new mustang, camaro, etc still bought the spacers and believed the advertising. Of my various race cars I've tested just about every gimmick out there. I never noticed a thing with a throttle body spacer.
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