And who did your porting?
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernd D. Ratsch <bernd@texas.net>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 6:33 PM
Subject: DML: Re: Re: Re: Throttle Body Mods - Again
>
>I haven't run an 1/4 miles on an official track yet (waiting for June
27th),
>but I can definitely say that the TB I received greatly improved the trucks
>performance...bottom end torque as well as overall acceleration. Good old
>fashioned "Butt-Dyno" and a small "traction loss" when power shifting from
>1st to 2nd proved that to me right away. Remember though...i've got a V6
>with 32" tires...that's not that easy to do.
>
>There are cases where the throttle body was modified with bores that were
>too large for the application or just modified too much for the application
>which will cause performance losses (which includes HP and TQ).
>
>Regards,
>
>Bernd D. Ratsch
>Pflugerville, TX
>'97 Dakota SLT/CC V6
>bernd@texas.net
>http://lonestar.texas.net/~bernd/Dakota.htm
>ICQ#: 39320084
>
>> This is the second time I have seen this particular post. Both times I
>was
>> just about ready to do the mod when Joel puts out this warning.
>> Is Joel the only one who has had this sort of performance loss? Or has
no
>> one else dyno'd their truck before/after the tb mod?
>>
>> --Ollie
>>
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