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Old 07-22-2006 | 01:53 AM
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Could someone help me find a throttle body spacer for a 3.7L 2005?

Anyones sucess stories or links to other forums on preformance moding would be helpfull too.
 
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Old 07-22-2006 | 04:23 AM
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How bout I give you my address... and you can send me your money you were gonna spend on the paperweight, and I save you the hassle of realizing you wasted money on something that won't help.

Throttle body spacers help NONE on these trucks.

Trying to save you money and the fact of you knowing you wasted money.
 
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Old 07-23-2006 | 08:22 PM
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Yea I found another post on a different fourm that was talking about it. Sounds like buying a re-tooled throttle body form the fastman will help preformance tho.
 
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Old 07-23-2006 | 09:50 PM
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forget the spacer they are junk. go with the complete retooled tb.
 
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Old 07-26-2006 | 12:41 AM
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Yea I plan on it. I'm tempted to go with a ported head too, but this stuff cost so much I'm going to have to spread it out over a longer time frame than I would like.
 
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Old 07-26-2006 | 09:46 PM
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Does anyone know what the air plenum does other than add apearence to the engine? Its the black box between the air cleaner and the throttle body that normally say something like "Magnum V6 3.7L".
 
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Old 07-26-2006 | 11:36 PM
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ORIGINAL: Frenchy

How bout I give you my address... and you can send me your money you were gonna spend on the paperweight, and I save you the hassle of realizing you wasted money on something that won't help.

Throttle body spacers help NONE on these trucks.

Trying to save you money and the fact of you knowing you wasted money.
I heard throttle body spacers actually only do good on carburated vehicles.
 
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Old 07-27-2006 | 12:04 AM
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the big black box is nothing, it just houses the air tube that goes into tb. other than that its for advertisement purposes. 3.7 mgnum or 4.7 magnum. and also the iat sensor is in there
 
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Old 07-27-2006 | 03:04 AM
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Ok so their is a tube hidden inside that box? I kinda like the look of that box on the engin but Airaid claims to be able to improve the airflow with their tube.... wonder what so ineffecient about that box as to have a 5% change from factory to aftermarket. I'm wobling back and forth on the K&N cold air or keeping my airhog and getting the Airaid tube. Anyone got good links to preformance reviews? I'm runnin myself raged googling till I pass out.
 
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Old 07-27-2006 | 10:53 AM
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Slehner,

The 'black box' is an air intake resonator. It is 'tuned' to try and reduce intake air noise at audible frequencies. If you remove it, there will likely be an increase in noise. There would likely also be a minimal improvement in efficiency.

In addition it does indeed make a good cheap place for engine 'badging' for the marketing guys.
 


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