No more broken throttle shafts
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The stock manifold does. The squaretop improves on that drastically, and any aftermarket intake manifold does as well. I have no idea why you would bother replacing the upper half when you could just change the entire thing and see even more of a gain.
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OK so a replacement top half that is similar to the square top and has a throttle body flange for the small ford pattern (I used a $45 shipped 65mm crown vic TB. Included the TPS/pigtail & works with the miata throttle cable end). Should be doable for less than an entire new intake manifold. No whistle on the ford throttle bodies cause no IAC. bwahahaaha. Simple fix with another bracket.
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So lets say that I wanted to wait on buying one of these because of a lack of funds at the moment. Is welding or JB welding the screws on the stock one an acceptable temporary solution? Does it stop the engine from ingesting the screws or does something else get swallowed when the throttle shaft breaks?
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So lets say that I wanted to wait on buying one of these because of a lack of funds at the moment. Is welding or JB welding the screws on the stock one an acceptable temporary solution? Does it stop the engine from ingesting the screws or does something else get swallowed when the throttle shaft breaks?
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Not to be a dick, but this is basically what everyone who's never broken a throttle shaft is going to say. I have a $4000 built motor in pieces in the shop because it ate a throttle screw - I would have gladly paid $1000 for an upgraded throttle body a year ago had I known it was going to break 8 hours after installing that motor.
If you don't think it's worth $300 or $400 or whatever, just wait until you're replacing a motor because your OEM TB broke. That's usually pretty convincing.
If you don't think it's worth $300 or $400 or whatever, just wait until you're replacing a motor because your OEM TB broke. That's usually pretty convincing.