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1989LXFOX

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I was looking at this throttle body spacer for my stock (cold air intake) engine. MPN# 400-526. Its $131 bucks which isnt bad. Wanted to see if anyone had any opinions. I realize that I wont be able to tell the difference on the torque most likely, but I heard it gives a cool whistle sound!
 

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Spend your money elsewhere, its not worth it unless you really want that whistling sound. What's all done to your car?
 
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BlakeusMaximus said:
Spend your money elsewhere, its not worth it unless you really want that whistling sound. What's all done to your car?
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BBK Cold air intake, Headers, off road H pipe, SLP Loud mouth exhaust, Ford Racing plugs and wires, 3.73 plus some suspension work.
 

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I personally wouldn't do it. It really wont benefit your car, Based on your avatar, I would get the windows tinted with the $130. Maybe others will chime in and give you their feedback
 
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I personally wouldn't do it. It really wont benefit your car right now. Based on your avatar, I would get the windows tinted with the $130. Maybe others will chime in and give you their feedback
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Thanks for the feedback!
 

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It won't help in anyway.. You'll be better off going to taco bell and ordering some of those new french fries
 

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WAIT!! Taco Bell has French fries????? Just kidding..........
 
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Yeah.. those fries look good. Too bad I can't eat them because.... well you know...old and the doc told me to loose some weight and watch my carbs, damit !
 

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I'd spend the $130 on an egr style explorer intake setup with the 65mm TB.
 
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I had two locos tacos for lunch.. and so it begin
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1989LXFOX said:
I was looking at this throttle body spacer for my stock (cold air intake) engine. MPN# 400-526. Its $131 bucks which isnt bad. Wanted to see if anyone had any opinions. I realize that I wont be able to tell the difference on the torque most likely, but I heard it gives a cool whistle sound!
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Honestly it will not yield you any advantages and is an item that never took off in the mustang community. I would look at the advise given in the thread about putting that money into a ford explorer upper/lower intake or tossing the money aside to use towards a ring and pinion gear swap on the rear end. I say that because that modification on a stock car will give you the most bang for the buck and have you feeling it's a different car performance wise.
 
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He’s already got rear end gears. Explorer intake is on my list, I have the parts on the shelf in my garage, just haven’t installed em yet. Too cold in the garage. I said tint on the windows, 130 will get that done, it’ll change the look of the car for sure. Or, better yet, a set of subframe connectors!!
 

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Some of these are nice:





You could put them on a chain and wear em for 'bling'.


Seriously, if you want to increase velocity at the port, your inlet tract needs to neck down from start to back, in small increments.
 
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All that nice annodizing, and hardware store lock washers for hardware..
 

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BlakeusMaximus said:
He’s already got rear end gears. Explorer intake is on my list, I have the parts on the shelf in my garage, just haven’t installed em yet. Too cold in the garage. I said tint on the windows, 130 will get that done, it’ll change the look of the car for sure. Or, better yet, a set of subframe connectors!!
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Interestingly enough I already have a GT40 upper and lower (internal EGR) and its 65 mm throttle body. Good advice, I will point the money towards that!
 
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The Opening on the Explorer upper is 68mm. Get yourself a nice 70-75mm EGR spacer, install it and enjoy the top end power gain
 
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1989LXFOX said:
Interestingly enough I already have a GT40 upper and lower (internal EGR) and its 65 mm throttle body. Good advice, I will point the money towards that!
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Now you need heads that will outflow your intake tract. A set of Explorer heads will do.


Welcome to the sickness my friend.
 
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