... what are they/what do they do? I keep hearing them mentioned, but couldn't find anything in the usual places I look. Someone explain them (in plain English ) for me?
Individual throttle bodies, basically each cylinder has a throttle butterfly instead of the 4 cylinders sharing a single (or double one) Have a look at Badger5's site or Jenvey. will find links in a mo..
http://www.jenvey.co.uk/ http://www.jenvey.co.uk/Imgs/Gallery/V8_2.jpg http://www.jenvey.co.uk/Imgs/Prods/TBP_MTD5.jpg Edited by: G_V_K
Just looked at the Badger site. So they're for pulling air in? Or is it forced? Do they have filters in? And what controls the air intake? I take it they don't make them for a 1.6 Driver?
You still have a cable operated throttle and all 4/6/8 throttles are linked together. Yep, ideally they will have either a sock filter or a filter that covers all the throttles, they 'pull air in' atmospheric pressure and witchcraft takes place and they make a lot of noise. What gets confusing is most fuel injection cars will have 'a' throttle body. Throttle bodies are usually reffered to as ITB's (individual...) Edited by: G_V_K
Use individual filters or an airbox with filter. You can get thm for a 1.6 Driver if you wanted after all manufacturers in the bike world use them on engines as small as 600cc
http://www.clubgti.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=51751&PN=2 Throttle bodies a plenty in this thread..
Thanks, Gary Witchcraft sounds interesting, although I already upset the neighbours with my rather loud exhaust, so even more noise...... hmmmmm Better put some on my wish-list, then
Jus make some, dead easy, 4 pieces of tube, some flat discs, some metal rod and a few screws and a tube of araldite.
