I was bored yesterday at work and I was looking at crap online and I came across an article on halfshafting a throttle body. I had seen it before and I figured it would probably not help at all but this time I looked at it I wondered if it might help in a nitrous application. I guess if it did anything it couldn't be a whole lot but it seems like some nitrous and fuel would get stuck on the small shaft of the throttle body resulting in less nitrous


any opinions

 

Well nitrous comes out of the bottle and once it leaves the lines its a gas so it will not get stuck. The fuel could have some stay on the throttle blade, but its a fine mist when it comes out so I don't see much if any staying on it. And if it does its such a fine mist it would evaporate after a short period of time.

Interesting thought though. I mean who knows I could be totally wrong about the fuel. I can tell you that my Intake plenum and TB are very clean from all the gasoline that goes through there.

 

it'd spray the nitrous and fuel mix at the wall of the TB rather than down the air flow path. Not a good plan in practice. Neat thought though... I'll run with it and see if there's any real useful application there.

 

i would think you would pick up a tiny bit more flow, not anything you'd notice in the seat of your pants.

 

Direct port is the better way to do it or so I hear but I was just curious what people thought as far as the guys that spray before the TB I'm sure that the gains would be small and I'm actually not sure how much fuel is in a say 100 shot so I can't say that the small amont that gets on the shaft will amke any difference but evey extra bit helps right

 

I just saw something about halfshafting too.
Not trying to hijack... but does anyone have any opinions in general on halfshafting the TB.

 

Its a big topic in the modular F150 world for some reason. You can gain some flow for sure, but its not going to make the car super fast. But if your looking for every bit of power you can get, thats one way to make another maybe 1 or 2 max.