Carb spacer question....

I tried running a 1" 4 hole spacer on my Blue Thunder/600 DP. I ended up with no noticable difference in performance and hard starting/cold idling.

"Cold" being 76.15* there?? LOL

Just kidding...

Thanks, I have the 1/2" spacer. Man, it sure looks like more than that in the package.

BTW, I really need to get back there, hard for an East Coast married father of 2. We were at the Wacaloa (sp?) Hilton for a few weeks 2 years ago, had a great time. Absolutely beautiful. You're a lucky SOB!! ;^)

Sell off the kids, buy another Pantera and take a vacation to Hawaii! Lucky you live Hawaii until you get the bills! The cost of living and taxes kill us here! The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence. Hawaii does have its perks though, gotta admit that!

You chose well

An open spacer is a tuning device for an open plenum intake. The 4 hole spacers can help an open plenum intake too, but are a necessity for someone not wanting to change the tuning of a 2 plane intake. It sounds as though you were only looking for a heat insulator, and for that purpose your choice was spot on.

your friend on the DTBB, George

At least paint your iron heads silver so they look aluminum. Tha's gotta be worth some horsepower somewhere.

LOL

Naw, I like to paint aluminum heads the same Ford Corporate Blue as the block for that stealth look. Most people never spot them (until you hand them a magnet)..

WRT Spacers and horsepower...

I've read several real-life dyno tests where they tried to establish if a spacer hurt or helped hp. Skipping all the details, which I can't remember anyway, and getting to the result which is really what interests us, the answer is "it depends".

The point of the article was that the only way to tell if a spacer will help on YOUR engine is to try it, then put it on a dyno to see. They were unable to separate the variables sufficiently to say "If you are running such-and-such cam, or intake, or whatever, a spacer will ALWAYS help".

So Johnk, I think the only way to find out what it will do on YOUR engine is to try it. In the experiments I've seen, the results have not always followed the predicted result very well.