Who was looking for ITBs?

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Yeah!!! What he said!!
I've got the basics for that setup (minus the stacks that don't fit anyway) 
for <$100.


From: "Brett Van Sprewenburg" <brett@ataxxia.com>
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: Who was looking for ITBs?


>
>
> Having been down this *exact* road, I would recommend that at least  this 
> set not be bought.  Why?
>
> Those tbodys are the GSXR bodies from a motorcycle, which can be made  to 
> work, but they do not in any way easily mate up to those velocity  stacks 
> or the lower manifold pictured.
>
> About that lower manifold...there's no enough "tube" left for  anything to 
> clamp onto and allow the tbodys to connect.  The person  that cut the 
> lower 16v manifold in those pictures chopped it right  down to the 
> injector ports without giving enough consideration as to  how to "clamp" 
> on the throttlebodies.
>
> Finally, there are no bolt "ears" at the intake end of those bodies  to 
> mount the velocity stacks, so any attachment will have to  be custom.
>
> Look how much "tube" material on the lower manifold we left when we  did 
> this conversion:
>
> http://bustedknuckleracing.com/N2O/P0000591
>
> Here's a shot when we were part way through doing our conversion:
>
> http://bustedknuckleracing.com/Intake/P0000555
>
> Note the hoses and clamps and fuel rail in the picture.  Making and 
> running with this system is not for dreamers or beginners.  It's  barely 
> for us. :-)
>
> Please feel free to ask if anyone is more interested in doing a 
> conversion like this, we're making some changes this year also...like 
> moving the injectors down to the orginal location and going crank  fired 
> for the ignition.
>
> ==Brett
>
>
> On Nov 24, 2006, at 12:46 PM, Nate Mellom wrote:
>
>> http://tinyurl.com/vdqx2
>>
>
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