Should be good for 10HP depending on how bad the stock intake setup was.
What wires did you get? Were they precut? What plugs (don't say Bosch please)? _________________ Due to a not-that-interesting turn of events, I am now known as Justin Danger.
Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 16855 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 10:16:25 Post Subject:
Well... the throttle body spacer has already been removed... it made this really annoying whistle with the gas pedal about 1/3 of the way down. Not cool for a daily driver. It has a helical bore I may have machined out to be smooth, but we'll see.
The ignition wires were all pre-cut... The inline 6 on the Jeep requires 3 different sizes to make it fit / look decent, and to be honest, I don't even see a brand name on them or in the catalog. They are much beefier than the stock wires, and even if its all in the insulation, the quality seems higher.
The plugs are Auto-Lite Double Platinum. They seem good, but I didn't really care to research them too far... _________________
After I removed the Holly and the aluminum spacer on the Bronco to do some grinding and polishing, it whistles at a certain spot when you just crack the throttle open. I rarely hear it because the spot it whistles at isn't a spot that you use too often.
I really don't know why it started that, because I enlarged the bores in the spacer to match the carb, polished them to a 2000 grit finish, the polished the bores of the carb (just had some dings on the bottom from being taken on and off over the years), and ground the screws that hold the butterflies down flush.
I think it's the screws doing it, I probably didn't get one quite flush and it has a gap that air goes through...
Anyway, did you call the manufacturer and ask them if that was normal? Might be some way to make it stop. _________________ Due to a not-that-interesting turn of events, I am now known as Justin Danger.
Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 16855 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 12:33:40 Post Subject:
I had the throttle body spacer machined to remove the helical bore, and re-installed it this morning!! w00t! Whistling gone, punch is back... all is good. I'll just have to keep an eye on my gas mileage to make sure its worth it...
Cost:
Machining the throttle body spacer... 1 bottle of Cherry Brandy.
Eliminating the whistling noise... PRICELESS!
Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Posts: 2130 Location: Up to my Nipples in Alaska
Posted: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:27:47 Post Subject:
HP = HorsePower
Horsepower is defined as work done over time. The exact definition of one horsepower is 33,000 lb.ft./minute. Put another way, if you were to lift 33,000 pounds one foot over a period of one minute, you would have expended one horsepower.
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