TheNinja
01-04-2003, 11:54 PM
when it comes to drivability fords are cushy and flighty... i want a car i gotta smack around. SO i was installing my weapon-r Intake (only one with a GOOD heatshield). and i decided to look around a bit... i tore down my block and poked some rods into holes and kinda shimmied things around. I noticed that we have something i've heard remotely called a "air bypass channel." See now its that channel alone which makes me annoyed... when i let off the gas i want my car to SLOW DOWN immediatly (a.k.a. compression or engine decelleration)... none of this sustaining rpms for "ease of shifting pleasure." So i take a christmas card of exceptional thickness and make a new gasket for my throttle body completely cutting off air to this bypass channel.... i turn my car on and it BARELY if i was lucky held a 100 rpm idle. I figureded this wasn't the best possible set up so i took all this stuff off and re drilled and kinda moved things around again. Now it BARELY holds a nice idle of 960... but when its cold it is at about 500.
TIME FOR THE TEST RUN. I take my car out on the street floor it (as always ;)) let off in 2nd gear and it slows down... to my dismay it wasn't a massive decelleration :~~~( BUT thats only because we got 4 cylinders.
DRAW BACKS. Kinda hard to drive it if you do it wrong ;) OTHER THAN THAT it will spit out more unused gas (slightly lower mpgs) and will make a bit more carbon build up along your exhaust manifold... nothing very serious but stuff to keep in mind a bit later down the road... Oh yea and it also makes it so you have to pay more attention to shifting... i dont havea ATX so i dont know what yea'll TBs look like but i would bet pretty similar.
SEEEE what happens when i dont like something? I fix it! Feel free to ask questions ;)
TIME FOR THE TEST RUN. I take my car out on the street floor it (as always ;)) let off in 2nd gear and it slows down... to my dismay it wasn't a massive decelleration :~~~( BUT thats only because we got 4 cylinders.
DRAW BACKS. Kinda hard to drive it if you do it wrong ;) OTHER THAN THAT it will spit out more unused gas (slightly lower mpgs) and will make a bit more carbon build up along your exhaust manifold... nothing very serious but stuff to keep in mind a bit later down the road... Oh yea and it also makes it so you have to pay more attention to shifting... i dont havea ATX so i dont know what yea'll TBs look like but i would bet pretty similar.
SEEEE what happens when i dont like something? I fix it! Feel free to ask questions ;)