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Old 02-03-2008, 06:08 PM
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good to sling at your neighbor when he pisses you off
 
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Alot of people who get them, do swear on them. I bought on just because it might make the CAI look cooler, then I decided not to go with the CAI. I don't know if I will even put the spacer on, I think I wasnt the mopar filter, or an oval one; haven't seen that yet.
Go pop your hood and look at your intake manifold and Look where your throttle body is located on it, and explain to me how you think a throttle body spacer is going to help that system? Why do you think it would it help? Because it costs money? Alot of the people who get them and swear on them probably don't drive dodge rams, and you should look at the intake manifold of the car that they drive, and you'll understand why it works on thiers and not on yours. They're vehicles are throttle body injection, our trucks are port injectionIt's about as funny as the idea of a "Cold air intake" cooling the air inside your CAST ALUMINUM intake. That stores and enormous amount of air that heats up the second it comes in...

Now on a plastic intake manifold a cold air intake makes alot of sense...
 
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Old 02-04-2008, 09:25 PM
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hey cereal killer, i was wondering could you send me pictures of the air cleaner liek of the four sides so i can see how every goes?
 
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Thrush Mufflers suck. I've had 2 rust out on me in 4 years, that's why I spent more money ona Magnaflow.
 
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Old 02-04-2008, 10:01 PM
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hey cereal killer, i was wondering could you send me pictures of the air cleaner liek of the four sides so i can see how every goes?
I'll go snap some pictures of it tomorrow when it's light out. There's pictures of the front and pictures taken from the driver side in my gallery if you want to use those for reference for the time being.
 
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what kind of thrush muffler i just put thrush glasspacks on this past weekend and they sound pretty good but are they the ones that rusted out on ya?
 
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also i cut the stock exhaust off right before the muffler and out the glasspack on with a turndown right after it with that and the 14x3 aircleaner how much hp should come of that
 
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Old 02-13-2008, 09:27 PM
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how does cutting off the muffler increase hp??
 
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Old 02-14-2008, 08:40 AM
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a glasspack muffler like the one i have is a straight thru muffler you can see straight thru it its pretty much like a a pipe that has fiberglass packed around the outside and it lets the exhaust flow a little easier but on mine i just cut right before the muffler and the slid it on clamped it down and the used the end of the stock tail pipe to run the exhaust back out to where it dumps out in front of the rear wheel on the passenger side it looks pretty good and sounds bad ***
 
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here is what i have done, I'm happy with over all performance especially towing but I'll tell you it's no 1/4 mile record breaker:
01 360

Air raid intake
accel coil and wires
perform. cap and rotor
bosh platnum 4 plugs.
air raid tb spacer
cat back gibson exhaust
hypertech

good luck[sm=gears.gif]
 


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