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Old Oct 5, 2008 | 10:41 AM
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What is this??
I've got a 95 I6. I think the guy I bought it from said he made that tan colored "spacer" in between the intake manifold and the air intake side. He said he did it to get better MPG. I don't know if it does any good. My MPG on the highway at 65mph with M5OD trans is around 14....ouch. DO you think this spacer helps any??


 
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Old Oct 5, 2008 | 10:50 AM
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No, why would it, you are only moving the air control (throttle) and you would get the same amount of air control.
 
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Old Oct 5, 2008 | 10:59 AM
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looks like he made that spacer out of wood
 
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No, why would it, you are only moving the air control (throttle) and you would get the same amount of air control.
Thanks....kin-of what I thought. I wonder if it's worth the trouble to take it out...or should I just leave it there?
 
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Old Oct 5, 2008 | 11:12 AM
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that is one of the craziest things i have seen for awhile on fte.

thanks for the laugh.

i would take it off, it is doing no good.
 
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Old Oct 5, 2008 | 11:40 AM
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Although its probably not causing any harm, i would still take it out.
 
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Throttle body spacers are junk! Toss it in the trash.
 
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Wow, a wooden throttle body spacer. That's awesome.
 
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Old Oct 6, 2008 | 06:58 PM
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Originally Posted by themoparkid
looks like he made that spacer out of wood

Looks almost like a fabric. Reminds me of Bakelite
 
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Old Oct 6, 2008 | 07:06 PM
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It's probably made from phenolic, not wood. I doubt that it is hurting anything, but I don't know that it helps anything either. It changes the overall plenum volume, but probably not appreciably.
 
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Your mpg is a bit low unless you are carrying 5000 lbs at 65 through hill country. Perhaps a systematic check of the efi, airflow meter, ignition, vacuum, compression would be in order to see if something simple is costing you 3 to 6 mpg. The spacer might be contributing to a vacuum leak--easy enough to tell, just spray wd40 or carb cleaner around it at idle. Any change in idle speed/quality points to a leak. Ditto the intake manifold.

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Old Oct 6, 2008 | 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by tbear
Looks almost like a fabric. Reminds me of Bakelite
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It's probably made from phenolic, not wood. I doubt that it is hurting anything, but I don't know that it helps anything either. It changes the overall plenum volume, but probably not appreciably.
phenolic and Bakelite are one and the same....just the original brand name. FYI The WIKI link shows a distributor rotor made of bakelite. Bakelite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Never seen a wooden one, seen an AirRaid be for but not wood
 
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