Re: PLEASE Dont put spacers on your trucks.....

From: Andy Levy (andylevy@bigfoot.com)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 07:47:38 EDT


If a spacer increases runner length, and the MPI's runner length is too
short, what about putting a spacer (at most, 1/2"?) on WITH the MPI?

Antonio De Anda wrote:
>
> TB spacers dont work on our motors.
> We are bottom feeders. Our fuel is delivered at the bottom not from the top
> of the TB, like on some of those cheby or ferds.
>
> Right now, without a spacer..........
> you stomp the pedal, and you feel a hesitation before the truck launches. By
> adding a spacer you will increase that hesitation. What you are essentially
> doing is increasing the length of the runner. Might give a fraction of an
> ounce of torque...And most of you are trying to decrease the runner length.
> The MPI is too short......gives up way too much torque. I know a lot of you
> wont believe it.......but come sit over here and respond to some of these
> emails from guys that have already tried it, and are swapping it back out. A
> hybrid manifold is probably the best bet. A stock one, with the runners
> cleaned up, and that center damn lowered. Check out hughesengines.com they
> make a modified unit just like ours.......but they are on some serious
> crack. They are outrageously priced. And their TBs suck....oops, did I say
> that. Check out their TB prices.........their quality sucks.......yet the one
> that is kinda like ours is much more.
>
> The only time I have suggested a spacer.......is for one of the guys with a
> body lift. The spacer allowed him to continue using his K&N gen II. It
> mounts to fender, so when motor stayed and fender went up....needed the spacer
> to compensate for the lift.
>
> I made a polished billet spacer.....its really purty, but it didnt help
> performance......so I didnt make kit. I only put it on for shows.
>
> Back to emails......

-- 
-andy

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