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[URdone21]

I ordered the extra scoop for my S&B CAI and an Airaid Throttle Body Spacer today. Don't freak out! If I decide to return the spacer, I get a full refund. I look forward to personally testing it out. I had one on my previous truck and enjoyed it.

Please try to keep this thread free of stupid comments. Keep your cool.

 

[Etroze86]

Let us know how that scoope works out before you throw on the spacer if you can.

 

[Casper]

I ordered the extra scoop for my S&B CAI and an Airaid Throttle Body Spacer today. Don't freak out! If I decide to return the spacer, I get a full refund. I look forward to personally testing it out. I had one on my previous truck and enjoyed it.

Please try to keep this thread free of stupid comments. Keep your cool.

Good luck with that. You'll definitely want to baseline what the CAI does for you before you add your spacer to avoid attributing performance increases to the spacer.

Can't see how you expect adding a few millimeters between your TB and the manifold will produce performance results? In a Carbureted engine you might be able to claim better fuel/air mixing could occur, particularly if the spacer imparted some sort of swirl to better blend the mixture.

But in this case all you've got is an air mixture. Your spacer may actually increase turbulence and decrease performance by reducing the amount of air flowing through the manifold.

 

[URdone21]

Good luck with that.

So you expect adding a few millimeters between your TB and the manifold will produce perfromance results? In a carborated engine you might be able to claim better fuel/air mixing could occur, particularly if the spacer imparted some sort of swirl to the fuel air mizture.
But in this case all you've got is an air mixture. Your spacer may actually increase turbulence and decrease performance.

I dont "expect" anything. That's the fun part. I get to test it.

When you referenced "turbulence and decrease performance" is that from personal experience? You had one on your truck previously?

 

[MikeG]

I'm curious to know if you will tell any difference with the scoop.

 

[audio1der]

^+1- morbidly curious, having already paid for one, and installed at the same time as the CAI.

 

[Casper]

I dont "expect" anything. That's the fun part. I get to test it.

When you referenced "turbulence and decrease performance" is that from personal experience? You had one on your truck previously?

No, I understand thermodynamics and the impact of nonlaminar air flow on volumetric flow through an orifice or venturi.

 

[chuck]

I'll be interested to see how it winds up working for you. Good luck!

 

[URdone21]

I'll be interested to see how it winds up working for you. Good luck!

Thanks! Either way, I love my truck and love buying new toys for her.

 

[chuck]

Thanks! Either way, I love my truck and love buying new toys for her.

Same here! Glad to hear you feel the same.


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[TXKID]

I'm all for trying stuff out but I even had a guy working at a 4 wheel parts store tell me not to buy the throttle body spacer and if someone has a product for sale that they don't want people to buy, it says something about the product.

 

[URdone21]

I'm all for trying stuff out but I even had a guy working at a 4 wheel parts store tell me not to buy the throttle body spacer and if someone has a product for sale that they don't want people to buy, it says something about the product.

I'd still like to see for myself. Again, I'm at no risk here. I can return it for a full refund if I choose.

 

[TXKID]

I'd still like to see for myself. Again, I'm at no risk here. I can return it for a full refund if I choose.

Yea man I didn't mean for you to not do it. I've honestly never tried it for myself, I was just sharing my experience with it

 

[URdone21]

I'm curious to know if you will tell any difference with the scoop.

Installed the scoop today. Piece of cake install. The exhaust sounded meaner after install. Maybe that's from the addition, the computer reset, or all in my head. Either way, I look at it like I look at the y-pipe addition, it's a complimentary mod. My truck is at 750 miles now so I won't really have any real numbers til later. Maybe 1000 miles or something.

 

[URdone21]

Installed the throttle body spacer after taking the truck for a ride post-scoop install. Another super easy install. One thing: anyone that has had a spacer on a 5.7 Ram hear the whistle sound like you normally get from spacers? I'm not hearing it at all. Not accelerating to 25 MPH and not to 70 MPH either. Seems odd.

 

[MikeG]

Keep us posted.

750 ? That's it

I got my truck dec 21 with 46 mile and now has 14k

 

[Xtreme545]

I consider spacers to be expensive paper weights


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[URdone21]

Keep us posted.

750 ? That's it

I got my truck dec 21 with 46 mile and now has 14k

Ya. I don't have a commute and my miles are 95% city. Trucks still breaking in.

 

[kschaefer426]

you should throw a catch can on if uve only got 750 miles...itll prevent a lot of oil from getting into ur throttle body and help save ur engine in the long run...and for 120 bucks ya cant really go wrong

 

[Big Boi]

So how's the spacer?