What is the purpose of the intake manifold brace?
#41
I left mine there...I can get the filter out no prob, and I like being able to put my hand down on intake manifold when working on car without worrying about stress on flange/runners.
And +1 to the above. As smart as engineers are, we are also lazy bastards. No engineer would devote effort to designing a brace if there wasn't some vibration/dynamics issue that made it a good measure.
It may be there just so there's never any problems in a half million miles of use, but some of us (like me) are already half way there, and a lot of the miles I put on my car count double - Sav's count nearly 25:1 -.
And +1 to the above. As smart as engineers are, we are also lazy bastards. No engineer would devote effort to designing a brace if there wasn't some vibration/dynamics issue that made it a good measure.
It may be there just so there's never any problems in a half million miles of use, but some of us (like me) are already half way there, and a lot of the miles I put on my car count double - Sav's count nearly 25:1 -.
#44
One of the threads was started by Emilio - about different options of TB shaft and TB upgrades because of the issue
As mentioned above 99% or the people both here and over there are more wine-and-cheesers than racers.
Btw, Actor's car doesn't even have forced induction on it - it is a dedicated CSP autocrosser machine.
Btw, Actor's car doesn't even have forced induction on it - it is a dedicated CSP autocrosser machine.
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I've had mine off for 4 years now, was one of the very first things I did. Beat the **** out of my car on a daily basis and have yet to see failure. No, its not turbo, but that doesn't matter. I still beat the car like it owes me money.
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True. The number of people who have removed this brace is enormous. The number of people within that group with throttle plate issues is miniscule. The cars that are being driven hard enough often enough to develop throttle plate problems like this don't have plenums; the ones that do have plenums aren't driven hard enough to develop them.
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