The Ford 300 Inline Six Performance thread.
#21
lost my Car again...
Thread Starter
#22
broke white boy
i thought about it, but with no experiance with an aluminum head on these trucks and them being cast from factory molds, there would be no way to tell how they would hold up, and i wasnt going to try and do a group buy and them end up not being a quality lasting part.
#23
Salvage Yard Pro
I'm still considering the TB spacer just to see if I can get another mpg out of the old girl. Not really interested in the claimed power because I know that's not gonna happen with the spacer on a 300. However, I'd love to at least try the spacer for highway mpg. I don't really have the cash for that right now though. If I could find a piece of the right kind of high temp plastic, it would be a fun experiment to DIY.
#24
lost my Car again...
Thread Starter
i thought about it, but with no experiance with an aluminum head on these trucks and them being cast from factory molds, there would be no way to tell how they would hold up, and i wasnt going to try and do a group buy and them end up not being a quality lasting part.
#25
lost my Car again...
Thread Starter
I'm still considering the TB spacer just to see if I can get another mpg out of the old girl. Not really interested in the claimed power because I know that's not gonna happen with the spacer on a 300. However, I'd love to at least try the spacer for highway mpg. I don't really have the cash for that right now though. If I could find a piece of the right kind of high temp plastic, it would be a fun experiment to DIY.
#26
broke white boy
I'm still considering the TB spacer just to see if I can get another mpg out of the old girl. Not really interested in the claimed power because I know that's not gonna happen with the spacer on a 300. However, I'd love to at least try the spacer for highway mpg. I don't really have the cash for that right now though. If I could find a piece of the right kind of high temp plastic, it would be a fun experiment to DIY.
let me explain, and you will see why they are a gimmick on our trucks.
a TB spacer was designed for TB's back in the day, mainly on GM vehicles where the fuel injector was in the TB its self, back when it was basically built like a carb intake with a TB on top of it, it was made to put a spin on the air to mix the fuel air mixture better to make sure each cylinder got a better mixture of fuel and air. before it ran down the short intake runners and into the cylinders.
no why it doesnt work on our vehicles.
our TB's basically adjustable plates before a long intake with a "BOX" build into it where the air sits waiting to go into the motor, and our injectors are at the end of each intake runner where they fire off and go directly into the engine,
there is no need to put a "spin on the air just for it to go into a waiting"box" where it will slow back down and "sit" and we dont need a better mixture of fuel and air mixture for all of the intake runners, because all of our runners have an injector one for each cylinder.
about all you gain from a TB spacer is a lighter wallet, some under hood bling, and i heard they make some what of a faint whine that sounds like a turbo running in the distance as the air sucks past them on full throttle.
#27
Salvage Yard Pro
You'd be reducing the intake diameter. PVC would work better using rubber couplers on each end. I just got done reading another site that gave the opinion I was figuring on. The TB Spacer, for the few that have used it, have gotten about a 1mpg gain under normal driving conditions. Those that have babied the pedal have gotten a little better. That $115 for the Airaid would pay for itself pretty quick if you did allot of highway driving. At $3@gallon, 1mpg savings would pay for itself at about 4k miles.
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#29
broke white boy
You'd be reducing the intake diameter. PVC would work better using rubber couplers on each end. I just got done reading another site that gave the opinion I was figuring on. The TB Spacer, for the few that have used it, have gotten about a 1mpg gain under normal driving conditions. Those that have babied the pedal have gotten a little better. That $115 for the Airaid would pay for itself pretty quick if you did allot of highway driving. At $3@gallon, 1mpg savings would pay for itself at about 4k miles.
just like when some people install exhaust they think their mpg actually went down, when it didnt, they like to hear the sound of the exhaust and how do you get the sound? giving it more gas peddle, and giving it more gas peddle forces more fuel into it.
im not going to try and force you not to buy one, but when 50 people say its not worth it, and 5 said they got better mpg's from it, who do you think is going to be right?
#30
Salvage Yard Pro
do you know the purpose of a TB spacer? or how one works?
let me explain, and you will see why they are a gimmick on our trucks.
a TB spacer was designed for TB's back in the day, mainly on GM vehicles where the fuel injector was in the TB its self, back when it was basically built like a carb intake with a TB on top of it, it was made to put a spin on the air to mix the fuel air mixture better to make sure each cylinder got a better mixture of fuel and air. before it ran down the short intake runners and into the cylinders.
no why it doesnt work on our vehicles.
our TB's basically adjustable plates before a long intake with a "BOX" build into it where the air sits waiting to go into the motor, and our injectors are at the end of each intake runner where they fire off and go directly into the engine,
there is no need to put a "spin on the air just for it to go into a waiting"box" where it will slow back down and "sit" and we dont need a better mixture of fuel and air mixture for all of the intake runners, because all of our runners have an injector one for each cylinder.
about all you gain from a TB spacer is a lighter wallet, some under hood bling, and i heard they make some what of a faint whine that sounds like a turbo running in the distance as the air sucks past them on full throttle.
let me explain, and you will see why they are a gimmick on our trucks.
a TB spacer was designed for TB's back in the day, mainly on GM vehicles where the fuel injector was in the TB its self, back when it was basically built like a carb intake with a TB on top of it, it was made to put a spin on the air to mix the fuel air mixture better to make sure each cylinder got a better mixture of fuel and air. before it ran down the short intake runners and into the cylinders.
no why it doesnt work on our vehicles.
our TB's basically adjustable plates before a long intake with a "BOX" build into it where the air sits waiting to go into the motor, and our injectors are at the end of each intake runner where they fire off and go directly into the engine,
there is no need to put a "spin on the air just for it to go into a waiting"box" where it will slow back down and "sit" and we dont need a better mixture of fuel and air mixture for all of the intake runners, because all of our runners have an injector one for each cylinder.
about all you gain from a TB spacer is a lighter wallet, some under hood bling, and i heard they make some what of a faint whine that sounds like a turbo running in the distance as the air sucks past them on full throttle.
Edit, I haven't spent hours and hours researching, but I haven't found anyone yet that tried it and it didn't work to some extent. I've found hundreds that say it's a gimmick, but haven't tried it. Lol. I hear that allot.
Last edited by unit505; 01-01-2013 at 08:20 PM.
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