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 Post subject: Throttle Body Spacer
PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:31 pm 
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Would it be a good idea to put a throttle body spacer on my 98gtp? I found this one http://www.3800performance.com/Merchant ... ct_Count=1 but was curious as to the actual benefits of this product.

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
PostPosted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:20 pm 
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PER ZZP:
replaces the function of our popular coolant plug. This spacer adds slight volume to the upper intake, and prevents the coolant from heating up the throttle body. These things translate into more power with less KR.

ZZP's is only priced at $25 but its only a 1/8" instead of the MAP one being 3/8"

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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On a S/C car it really won't do anything since the air is going to be heated up when it is compressed anyway and having a cooler TB would be cancelled out by the hot charge post TB. However, the thermodynamics would make sense with regards to early N/A cars which had the plastic UIM since plastic conducts heat less than metal and if you block off the TB coolant passages, than the only time air comes into contact with metal that metal should be cooler but 04+ N/A motors had aluminum UIM's so a spacer really wouldn't do anything for them. Again, I'm just going by the thermodynamic priciples of why or why not a TB spacer would or wouldn't do anything. Now if you wanted to run nitrous, then yes the spacer would be perfect for an spray connector. If you think about it, air is only in contact with the TB for a millisecond and the amount of heat required for the TB to increase the temperature of the incoming air would be enourmous. An intake would be a better way to spend that much money.

If I'm not mistake, the coolant passages in the TB are to warm it up to a point that it won't freeze up and stick in the winter.

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
PostPosted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:25 am 
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^^X2 on the thermodynamic side of it...as far as practicality again i have to agree that your better off spending the money and doing an intake set-up

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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I found this link on ZZP's site that tests one with a FLIR (Heat Imaging device) on a S/C 3800.

http://www.zzperformance.com/downloads/ ... _Study.pdf

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The throttle body’s temperature dropped an incredible 69°F!!! Not bad for an
inexpensive easy to install bolt-on product.

The most impressive finding to me wasn’t the temperature of the throttle body,
but the temperature of the supercharger. The heat gains to the air through the throttle
body must have been significant prior to adding the spacer. We dropped the supercharger
body temperature by approximately 29 degrees Fahrenheit! This should greatly reduce
knock in our quest for high performance, and allow us to put more power to the wheels
on those hot summer days at the drag strip.

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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^^^how can it be an N/A 3800 if they are talking about dropping the supercharger temp??

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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Yeah the TB may be cooler but the equations and key information that they left out are the fluid dynamic flow equations which would show that even though the TB is cooler the flowing air isn't effected unless the outside heat was huge!! Not trying to cut you down brian, just trying to justify me paying $50k a year for my engineering degree :grin:
If you take a cross section of a round volume or air, only the outer circumfrence of that air is actually even in contact with the walls of the TB and at that they are only touching it for roughly .0001 second at WOT since air flowing through the TB at WOT is traveling a couple hundred MPH (somewhere between 250-500 mph depending on cars) if I'm not mistaken. To simplify things, let say that the air was only travelling at 1 m/s roughly 2.25 mph, sorry to switch up units...(1m/s/1000mm/s)(150mm/6inches)(1/60seconds) = .0025 so that particular section of air would be in contact with the TB, if it was 6 inches long, for only .0025 seconds. If I wasn't lazy I would go figure out how much engergy in heat it would require to raise that section of air by say 25 degrees, but I can promise you that it would be an enourmous amount and way more than 69 degrees especially when the air is going to come into contact with the UIM or S/C and then heads which are all going to be in contact with the air for a long amount of time than the TB and the S/C will heat the air up due to compression anyway.
Now if the TB has a huge surface area of something like an IC than yeah, that much of a temp difference would make a huge difference even if the air was only in contact with it for a .0001 second, but the TB's surface area really isn't that big in comparision to the rest of the engine that the air is in contact with before entering the combustion chamber.

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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black04gpgt wrote:
^^^how can it be an N/A 3800 if they are talking about dropping the supercharger temp??

I had something else going on while I was typing, that was just a typo. I'll fix that.

Thanks for the info Matt, I'm just here to learn and teach when I can. You definately cleared that up for me though!

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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These tend to have their gaskets leak eventually and pour fluid into your SC and through your engine and out your tail pipe.


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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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Planeboy18 wrote:
Yeah the TB may be cooler but the equations and key information that they left out are the fluid dynamic flow equations which would show that even though the TB is cooler the flowing air isn't effected unless the outside heat was huge!! Not trying to cut you down brian, just trying to justify me paying $50k a year for my engineering degree :grin:
If you take a cross section of a round volume or air, only the outer circumfrence of that air is actually even in contact with the walls of the TB and at that they are only touching it for roughly .0001 second at WOT since air flowing through the TB at WOT is traveling a couple hundred MPH (somewhere between 250-500 mph depending on cars) if I'm not mistaken. To simplify things, let say that the air was only travelling at 1 m/s roughly 2.25 mph, sorry to switch up units...(1m/s/1000mm/s)(150mm/6inches)(1/60seconds) = .0025 so that particular section of air would be in contact with the TB, if it was 6 inches long, for only .0025 seconds. If I wasn't lazy I would go figure out how much engergy in heat it would require to raise that section of air by say 25 degrees, but I can promise you that it would be an enourmous amount and way more than 69 degrees especially when the air is going to come into contact with the UIM or S/C and then heads which are all going to be in contact with the air for a long amount of time than the TB and the S/C will heat the air up due to compression anyway.
Now if the TB has a huge surface area of something like an IC than yeah, that much of a temp difference would make a huge difference even if the air was only in contact with it for a .0001 second, but the TB's surface area really isn't that big in comparision to the rest of the engine that the air is in contact with before entering the combustion chamber.

Class is over. :lol:




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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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black04gpgt wrote:
Planeboy18 wrote:
Yeah the TB may be cooler but the equations and key information that they left out are the fluid dynamic flow equations which would show that even though the TB is cooler the flowing air isn't effected unless the outside heat was huge!! Not trying to cut you down brian, just trying to justify me paying $50k a year for my engineering degree :grin:
If you take a cross section of a round volume or air, only the outer circumfrence of that air is actually even in contact with the walls of the TB and at that they are only touching it for roughly .0001 second at WOT since air flowing through the TB at WOT is traveling a couple hundred MPH (somewhere between 250-500 mph depending on cars) if I'm not mistaken. To simplify things, let say that the air was only travelling at 1 m/s roughly 2.25 mph, sorry to switch up units...(1m/s/1000mm/s)(150mm/6inches)(1/60seconds) = .0025 so that particular section of air would be in contact with the TB, if it was 6 inches long, for only .0025 seconds. If I wasn't lazy I would go figure out how much engergy in heat it would require to raise that section of air by say 25 degrees, but I can promise you that it would be an enourmous amount and way more than 69 degrees especially when the air is going to come into contact with the UIM or S/C and then heads which are all going to be in contact with the air for a long amount of time than the TB and the S/C will heat the air up due to compression anyway.
Now if the TB has a huge surface area of something like an IC than yeah, that much of a temp difference would make a huge difference even if the air was only in contact with it for a .0001 second, but the TB's surface area really isn't that big in comparision to the rest of the engine that the air is in contact with before entering the combustion chamber.

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 Post subject: Re: Throttle Body Spacer
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Matt has already covered everything, but I'll add this.

The only reason to run a TB spacer is it it has been tapped and your nitrous or water/meth nozzle is in it.

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