quick intake question!
12-30-2009, 10:11 PM
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quick intake question!
i just installed my intake spacer earlier..it came with (1) paper gasket, so i called american muscle and they said it goes underneath the spacer..on the customer photos i saw some of both though..so, does the gasket go between the spacer and intake, or between the plenum and spacer??
12-30-2009, 10:35 PM
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It should go between the spacer and plenum from what i was told.
IMHO, i would just go with a good throttle body/plenum. My Accufab combo already has a 1 inch height advantage over the stocker, so it kind of had the spacer thing built in so to speak. Not to mention the advantages of a larger, and better constructed tb/plenum over the stocker.
IMHO, i would just go with a good throttle body/plenum. My Accufab combo already has a 1 inch height advantage over the stocker, so it kind of had the spacer thing built in so to speak. Not to mention the advantages of a larger, and better constructed tb/plenum over the stocker.
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12-31-2009, 01:06 AM
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i though the intake already had an 0 ring gasket between the intake and the plenum. well i would do what their tech rep said then. you could check for vacuum leaks after just to make sure. you should have just bought a plenum and not a spacer. i dont think you will get a hp from it. all of the aftermarket intake manifold that are copies of the original look the same but have shorter runners to make more hp. unless you plan on using it as a port to spray N2O
12-31-2009, 01:44 AM
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quick question from me too! can you feel the claimed 15 horsepower increase?
jokes aside i'd return it or sell it on ebay. you will get zero horsepower increase from this. if anything its going to harm you by adding 2-3 ounces of weight to your car. like said the only benefit to this is people who use it as a place to screw a nitrous nozzle into. the idea of the plenum spacer comes from the old carbeurated engines where a spacer actually does something productive. adding a spacer allowed the air and fuel more time to "atomize" in the intake giving you a better air fuel mixture. on a fuel injected car its literally nothing but a paperweight.
BUT... if your heart is set on installing it, then ^^^^ is right. it goes between the spacer and the plenum. theres already an o ring on the manifold, so your spacer will fit against that. then the gasket will seal air from the spacer to the plenum.
jokes aside i'd return it or sell it on ebay. you will get zero horsepower increase from this. if anything its going to harm you by adding 2-3 ounces of weight to your car. like said the only benefit to this is people who use it as a place to screw a nitrous nozzle into. the idea of the plenum spacer comes from the old carbeurated engines where a spacer actually does something productive. adding a spacer allowed the air and fuel more time to "atomize" in the intake giving you a better air fuel mixture. on a fuel injected car its literally nothing but a paperweight.
BUT... if your heart is set on installing it, then ^^^^ is right. it goes between the spacer and the plenum. theres already an o ring on the manifold, so your spacer will fit against that. then the gasket will seal air from the spacer to the plenum.
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