I'll give you that ...... but ONLY if other changes are made. An engine (as you know) is simply an air pump. More air in = more air out. But ONLY if that air can actually GET OUT. Other enhancements are in order or this is simply wasted funds.

 

Dont forget about tuning. You can add all the crap in the world to your motor but its useless unless you tune them to work in sync with each other to give optimum perdormance gains.

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Yup an engine is just an air pump. But how would a throttle body spacer make a multi-port fuel injected engine any more efficient?

Let's say what the TB spacer manufacturer says is 100% true that it will in effect "spin" the incoming air. What happens after the air gets past the throttle body and enters the intake on our Jeeps? It has to turn 90* to enter the runners. In a sense any gain you might have had from spinning the air is void... If anything you may have created turbulence that could actually hurt performance...

 

No, i mean all the crap people waste money on that doesn't help...

 

I'm not sure we are disagreeing.

Obviously, there are TONS of "enhancements" out there that are advertised as the "Holy Grail" of performance parts. The only way we'll ever know for sure is to install them and see for ourselves ... or else do our due diligence and use the web to research the effects from end users. And even that isn't always effective because people are hesitant to say that they wasted their funds on something that didn't live up to the hype surrounding it.

As for the spacer ...... I wasn't trying to say that it would help. But trying to point out that most any modification will depend on the addition of other modifications to realize the optimum potential.

 

I still don't understand how it could possibly be beneficial, but if Go-Jeep runs them, I'm willing to pay attention.

 

Damn thats the same as me right now. Defanatly has more pep than stock.

 

Now what's the best way to tune it??? Chip? Programmer??

 

Tuner.

 

Yep. Take it to someone that will solder a chip in, tune it, and set a data logger. Makes it easy to figure out problems later on as well. They throw it on a dyno and make it get all of the useable power.

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i ran a snorkle, tbs,brla cat back and a k&n type filter, the car was a lot faster then similar xjs. it was a lot crisper on the pickup after i fitted all of the above, but it was all done at the smae time.