At 10:34 AM 1/21/99 -0800, you wrote:
>DML,
>I just picked up the 4 BBL TB and it is quite an amazing piece of work. The
>TB is machined from a solid piece of aluminum. Bore diameter is 1.686 and it
>has an IAS, TPS and a MAP. The MAP is located in the exact same place as the
>factory 2 BBL MAP, the TPS is located on the back barrel throttle shaft and
>the IAS is located just in front of the TPS. The linkage is a work of art,
>but the throttle stops don't look like they will hold up to the rigors of
>daily driving (SS cap screws that come to rest against the aluminum
>linkage). There were no brackets to hold the factory throttle cable and no
>provisions to bolt up the factory bracket, so the linkage is going to take
>some work. The throttle bores a fully machined, heck, the whole thing is
>fully machined. Throttle shafts are half-shafts, just like what we are
>installing, and the plates are aluminum. A beautiful example of CNC
>machining. Next comes the manifold.......
>
Frank,
What do you think that 4bbl TB costed to make? I'm not familiar with what
a block of aluminum or time on a CNC mill costs; just wondering if you think
MP is charging a fair price? And I wonder who is REALLY making them? I
read an article in MPN a while back that said Galaxy was fully CNC now and
that they were doing blocks for MP. I wonder if they're the ones doing
these also? (Just tryin' to cut out the middleman.) ;-)
I'd love to have access to a CNC mill; I've love to create a mess of
funky TB designs and try 'em out. :-)
PS: If you solve the linkage problem, maybe DML Engineering can sell
brackets to MP??? :-)
-Jon-
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