Are you kidding me?!?!?!
I read this message and thought "I must be reading an old archive
or something". Did someone play with my systems date/time??? Nope,
everything looks okay.
TAKE A HIKE.
Your business practices, and product suck the big one...
Sam '00 RT "We remember"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of RDPerform@aol.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 9:59 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: R&D Performance Throttle Bodies
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Was just poking through the archives and noticed that my previous
> "competition" had alot of bad mouthing as to the quality of my ported
> throttle bodies. What I'm asking you folks is, how is your TB holding up?
>
> One person mentioned that the TBs butterflies were loose - this
> was only on
> the first run of TBs as they were only welded on the one side
> which allowed
> the blades to wiggle very slightly. A small tack weld on the front of the
> blade fixed this. (Note: This cannot be done on a TB with brass blades -
> period. No matter how good the welder is) Our TB is the only one with the
> flathead screws sunk into the bores to my knowledge. This may
> have changed.
> Another thing no one seems to mention is how our blades are angle cut to
> match the bore .... just another small step we take to insure the
> precision
> assembly of these units. Nothing is just stamped out.
>
> Another thing mentioned by our "competition" is that our
> precision stainless
> shafts were warped from the heat of the welding. Well - upon
> disassembly of
> our TB we tested the welds on (had about 3 or 4 different welding
> points as
> opposed to 2) we spun the shaft on a dial indicator .......
> nothing was out
> of tolerance one bit.
>
> I'm also curious as to how well these "fixed" throttle bodies
> performed with
> the larger bore. When we tested the 52mm bore over the 50mm,
> performance was
> ultimately lost even though the off-idle gains made it feel like
> the truck
> was actually faster. We did this on my Supercharged truck, stock trucks,
> warmed up NA trucks (cams, etc), all with the same results.
>
> I still to this day (especially after selling all my surplus
> parts off cheap)
> get requests to start making the TBs again, as people are very
> satisfied with
> them. I plan on doing so (plus a 4.7L TB that'll be an absolute
> jewel) with
> all options available, just curious as to what you guys though
> worked, as,
> it's no big deal to do any extra machining once the TB is in the mill.
>
> FWIW - New price will probably be around $250 - no core. How's
> that sound?
>
>
> Speak up :)
>
>
> ttyl
> Patrick
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