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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 09:28 AM
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I have a cold air intake on my 2003 chevy and i just bought a throttle body spacer an when i put it on my intake tube is hiting my fan.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 09:39 AM
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Go back to stock intake or take the spacer off or get electric fans.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 09:44 AM
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I hate to tell you this, but that's a common problem and if you want it to fit you have to modify the hell out of a bunch of ****.

Really....you spent money for a spacer that does absolutely nothing unless you use it as a nitrous plate. Seriously....they add 0 torque and 0 horsepower.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 09:50 AM
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the spacer is useless unless you have lines hooked up to it.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 09:55 AM
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sell the spacer, if you want the whistle sound get a turbo, if you want gas mileage get a tune...if you want performance buy performance mods
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 09:58 AM
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Yup, sorry. The TB spacer does nothing for a port injected engine except elongate the intake. If you plan on running N2O then it can be drilled and tapped but otherwise useless.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 10:02 AM
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Throttle body spacer is the best mod I've done so far, call nitrous outlet... Dave will set you up fat.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 03:09 PM
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yeah i have a TB spacer on my intake but that was required for the TB i'm running. i've got a 85mm TB and it's so much larger than stock that i had to have a spacer but it does nothing but whistle. later on i plan on porting it for nitrous but other than that, pointless.
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Old Sep 15, 2007 | 04:26 PM
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jsut cut the fan shroud...no biggie...or throw the spacer in the trash
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Old Sep 15, 2007 | 04:59 PM
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the best thing to do with that spacer is huck it at a squirrel and make a cool whistle sound in the process
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