I dunno why I didnt think to ask before, but does anyone live down south and want to give me a hand with prepping some home made ITBs? I've had these sitting on my desk for 2 years now and I've just lacked the time and motivation to work on them (grad school followed immediately by 55+hr work weeks).
I have the following pieces for my application:
- ITBs from a sportbike
- Velocity stacks
- Plenum (had to use a plenum since my car uses MAF)
- Spare TPS and IACV
What I need:
- A dremel tool that has more juice than my cordless
- Help figuring out how to adapt my TPS and IACV to work with this application.
- vacuum block/accumulator
- Intake manifold gasket
- motivation and a driveway to work in (i live in apartments where they dont allow "mechanical" work)
Regardless of the help on the project, I would be interested to see how many members live in south Florida like myself.
DirtE30
New Reader
10/12/09 8:38 p.m.
I dont live in miami, but I would say Ft. Lauderdale is close enough. I-75 and griffin road.
Weston huh? I'm always so tempted to exercise the leadfoot on I-75, but so many cops!
Need something stronger than a Dremel?
If you don't have access to a compressor and an air powered grinder, this is the next best thing:
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=44141
I just wish it had a speed control since it will spin damned fast! I think you could get a controller for a 120v router and use that, I might try that.
Use a piece of construction paper/cardboard/manila folder to make a template to adapt a TPS sensor to the bike TB's. Then take that to someone with a lathe/mill and have them build it. You could even use a company like e-machineshop.com and do it all online.
Vaccuum blocks are easy to come by.
http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&resnum=0&q=vacuum+block&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=lqjUSoqLLovssQP0xNjJCg&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBkQrQQwAA
Obviously the intake gasket you'll need to get from the local parts house or http://www.RockAuto.com
Adapting the TPS could probably be done in a kitchen or someplace where you can sit with the parts and cut out some pieces of paper to get what you need.
Wish I were closer to help more!
Thanks for the input, I will make sure to post up some pics this weekend when i have time to tinker.
cwh
UberDork
3/31/12 8:45 a.m.
Davie Blvd and I-95, but don't have any skills for what you are up to. jcan = Jamaican?