am I the only one to have actually bolted on a larger throttle body on an EA82 (turbo or not) and actually have driven it more than 500 miles?

 

if you can recall...I bolted on an XT6 throttlebody onto a turbo spyder intake manifold, and that went into my GL-10 wagon. I blew two engines shortly after due to poor tuning (on stock EMS) running over 15 PSI of boost on two blocks that were very high mileage.

 

That setup is still sitting on my wagon...and has not made it onto my RX...yet.

 

However, today in scrounging thru parts, I came up with a complete spyder intake, the upper half of an XT6 manifold, an XT6 TB...and two other TBs...a normal one and one from a spyder.

 

I've never read/heard of anyone else actually installing a larger TB onto their setups...just spyder intakes or fancy home made intake systems....I am about to embark on another spyder-XT6TB conversion for the RX....this time I'll be sure to document it.

 

 

but agian...I ask....has anyone else done this?

Take Lots Of Pics!

i am curently working on a larger TB for my spider, it came off of a GM ecotec 2.2L. the reason i am using this TB, is it has a larger bore, and it has the GM IAC for my future MSnEDS system. the throtle setup is also much smaller so the TMIC fits better. i will take pictures soon.

I wanted to, because we have a 6 sitting around, but it wouldnt bolt up on the '86 intake.