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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 07:55 AM
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Throttle body spacer

I was doing research and looking at throttle body spacers. I was wondering if anyone is running them or know from experience if they are worth the money or is it just another gimmick. My boss claims on his cheby he gained almost 5 mpg from just adding one. Now I know he has the electronic gas mileage reader in his truck and its prob just a estimate reading but that seems almost to good to be true. Everything I am reading claims its gives you noticeable torque and a few mpg. Im not one to give into these gimmicks but I just don't see how that little spacers would give you 5 mpg. Anyone running one and noticed a increase in torque or mpg. If so for 80 bucks it doesn't seem like a bad deal for a few extra mpg. Thanks for any info......Greg
 
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 08:17 AM
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Junk. Does absolutely nothing, had one on my 95 f150 and all it did was make an annoying whistle sound at about 3000 rpms. Put the money towards a tuner.
 
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 11:44 AM
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Yup...they are junk.
 
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 07:03 PM
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That's what I figured, I already have a tuner just don't use it with gas prices the way they are. I would have to run 91 octane on full tune with mine so I run stock settings. Thanks for the info....
 
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Old Jun 27, 2007 | 10:40 PM
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Mine gets better mileage on the 93 octane tune which more than offsets the $0.20 a gallon difference!!
 
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