I was thinking about getting a throttle body spacer and I wanted to know if anyone had installed one on their Tacoma and if it made a noticable difference or not...
i was going to get one for my X-Runner untill i heard they dont do crap. they r just heavy paper weights
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I was thinking about getting a throttle body spacer and I wanted to know if anyone had installed one on their Tacoma and if it made a noticable difference or not...
Think about this for a second... If you could get a measurable preformance gain by spacing the throttle body away from the intake about 3/4" and adding some thread like protrusions into it, Don't you think toyota would have done this when they designed the engine in the first place? Toyota literally spent millions of dollars designing this engine and probebly went through several dozen alpha and beta prototypes before they settled on a final design that made it to production. Everything done on a modern engine is made that way for a logical(to the engineers) reason. Some hillbilly with a CNC mill isn't going to out think a room full of toyotas best designers.
Think about this for a second... If you could get a measurable preformance gain by spacing the throttle body away from the intake about 3/4" and adding some thread like protrusions into it, Don't you think toyota would have done this when they designed the engine in the first place? Toyota literally spent millions of dollars designing this engine and probebly went through several dozen alpha and beta prototypes before they settled on a final design that made it to production. Everything done on a modern engine is made that way for a logical(to the engineers) reason. Some hillbilly with a CNC mill isn't going to out think a room full of toyotas best designers.
wells lets think of all the screw ups that a roomful of toyotas engineers made. dont underestimate a hillbilly with tools.
Think about this for a second... If you could get a measurable preformance gain by spacing the throttle body away from the intake about 3/4" and adding some thread like protrusions into it, Don't you think toyota would have done this when they designed the engine in the first place? Toyota literally spent millions of dollars designing this engine and probebly went through several dozen alpha and beta prototypes before they settled on a final design that made it to production. Everything done on a modern engine is made that way for a logical(to the engineers) reason. Some hillbilly with a CNC mill isn't going to out think a room full of toyotas best designers.
well, yes and no to the above. I agree that your average Joe shouldn't out-think an engineer with an R&D budget, etc. But we ARE talking about the same engineers that neglected to move the rear differential breather off the pumpkin and higher up like they did with the front 2. (and then claim the truck can go through 27" of water). So, yeah, some hillbilly might get lucky.
As for the TB spacer. I have one. Bought it a couple weeks after the truck when I assumed I'd get a CAI that would make more use of it. Read all the reviews I could find, and it sounded like it MIGHT actually do something. In reality, no. It has had little effect that I can notice. Other than maybe a slightly louder sound when you first hit the gas on acceleration. Note that I still have the stock intake (didn't realize a damn after market intake would set me back 3 bills when I was planning this out) so who knows if a different intake would actually make it work or not.
Aslo, I haven't had the motivation to take it back off now that the truck is broken in to see it DID have an affect.
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toyota has missed a lot of little things over the years, ya they make a good truck, but if you trust them so much do some jumping jacks on your tailgate...
Well fine.. I wont spend the money on the spacer because it does make sense that if it did make a substancial difference that they would have put it on there in the first place. But when you think about it a K&N type intake should also come stock. It not only increases the amount of air allowed into the engine increasing horsepower (even if it is a minor gain) but it also improves gas mileage.. And I'm still waiting for a hillbilly to make a supercharger for my tacoma.
no probably not, I saw the 400 hp X-Runner on the TRD site, but big deal if you cant buy it. I love my tacoma but lets face it, it needs more power. On a good note i do appreciate the gas mileage.
yea i've seen people run them on their cars, and claimed they "feel" a difference even though a dyno test proved other wise. a complete waste of money on a fairly normal engine like a tacoma. I think in race engines trying to sqeeze out every decimal of HP and trying to get the perfect powerband forms of the throttle body spacer are used but in a street engine, it's just a $90 paperweight
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