phenolic spacers worth the $50?

cenok is family

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i'm thinking about getting one, is it worth it though?

 

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To clear tall valve covers? They provide no power gain and in some cases have actually been thought to cause problems. They are made of a different material than the intake itself and (there was a recent thread here available through the search button) is thought to expand from the heat at a different rate, and to a different degree of expansion and broken thread ears off the upper intakes...how true this is I can't say, but as for power gains I can say no.

 

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I had one on my 89 because of tall valve covers combined with an explorer intake. It didn't cause any problems, except that it threw the air-fuel ratio completely off and caused me to have to buy an adjustable fuel pressure regulator and a rail mount guage and it took me the better part of a week to get my car to stop sputtering and spitting and dying

 

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Mr. Rustypwnz

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beast you got the day off too? must be a georgia thing. Damn that thing will be so sick!!

 

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why do you gotta pull out the big shot and make me look bad? amnit:

 

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like the others said it would help to clear tall valve covers as far as heat disipation i doubt it would be affected that much (iceing your intake before a run would prob work better) and maybe im just speculating but, runners are a tuned length to get an air charge to the valves at the right time during the stroke and could throw of a/f and your rpm range.

 

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I bought one off Ebay for $10/shipped for my Cobra Intake. Only reason I bought it was because it was cheap.

It's a 1/2" spacer si it didn't raise it too high. I don't think it did a thing for heat disappation. My intake still gets burning hot.

 

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Mustang5L5 said:

I bought one off Ebay for $10/shipped for my Cobra Intake. Only reason I bought it was because it was cheap.

It's a 1/2" spacer si it didn't raise it too high. I don't think it did a thing for heat disappation. My intake still gets burning hot.

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yeah thats exactly what i was looking into one for; i just picked up a cobra intake and was looking at a 1/2" one. Sounds more negative than positive.

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thanks guys!

 

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I was thinking about getting one too. I guess I wont now.

 

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Got one on my ride as well. Never really noticed anything different in the way it ran or performance wise.

 

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The upper manifold will run cooler only if you block the EGR at the head/manifold gasket and disconnect the coolant lines that run to the TB spacer. Only then would a spacer have any measurable effect on HP.

 

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slow95gt said:

beast you got the day off too? must be a georgia thing. Damn that thing will be so sick!!

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Nah didn't have the day off, I have cooking sixth period so I let the chicks do the work and I just sit on the computer, and I have a 100 lol

 

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I have a brand new never used 1 inch spacer for a tickflow intake if anyone is intrested.

I pulled the motor installed a tubular k-member and new poly motor mounts. Now with the 1inch intake spacer my cervini 1.5 cowl won't close so I won't be using the spacer.