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dude, the key words in the orignal thread were "easiest homemade", not unbolt the whole intake, take it to a friends house, polish it on some antique machine along with your hands. yeah, duh, anyone can polish their intake and make it breathe better for more power, but the question was for easy homemade mods. not go to great lengths for better breathability mods.

Hey,

TBunder, don't be such a tool. You used a relative term such as easy.

Easy for RubY meant painting his taillights. Easy for jpwesson was a little machine work. What is easy for one is probably nuclear physics for another.

Just smile and say cool, you can do stuff like that, I'd like to, but it's probably out of my league. Or sumptin like that.

Try some decaf today!

TB

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The spirit of my post was how to do things cheapest. With good drawings and some basic knowledge of how to make things you could take a $40 junk throttle body to a local machine shop and have all the work except polishing and assembly done for $75-100.

This beats paying Gude $275 for their bored TB (good product by the way) plus sending your existing TB as a 'core'. Of course, with the Gude all you have to do is 'bolt it on' but you are out $275 plus shipping plus your original body.

Using a junkyard TB, I got to develop and perfect the TB without taking the original off the car. it took me about an hour to remove the original, bolt on the modified TB and adjust the throttle sensor.

In terms of difficulty, designing and building this TB is about as difficult as changing cam gears, and definiely easier than reprogramming the ECU, or port matching the intake to the head.

hey tbunder, chill!
he was only contributing to the thread, no need to go off on one at him. i'm glad he did post that, it's sounds inresting!

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i just renamed this thread to how to find a junkyard throttle body and polish it to flow more air. is this a new idea? not! but im out and this thread went nowhere it was supposed to go. i guess there are no easy homemade free mods for the zetec. and you all chill!! an easy mod is one that can be done in one step and take less than 20 minutes while improving performance of the car. not block the lighting of your taillights(dumbest mod ive heard of btw)or take several steps to polish some tb. granted that will work, it is by no means an easy or time efficient mod. and not free either, as i know no junkyards that will give away throttle bodies to public citizens.

okay lets get back to the subject of the post. the easyest thing i've done so far is run a shop vac hose from the intake to the front bumper for more cool air. but i got a air scoop made that fits in the middle of the bumper between the support plastic pieces that go from the top to the bottom parts. it cost me about 20 for it. it is made from stainless steel. the shop vac hose hooks right up to it with just a clamp holding th hose to the scoop. the scoop is mount to the bottom with some self tapping screws. but im done for now.

Check out Home Depot. There are a lot of parts you can make with 3" and 4" dia plastic pipe, flexible couplings and the like.

I replaced the restrictive inlet on my air box (ZX2 is tubular) with a flexible coupling and a part cut from a 3" black plastic 45 deg el. Works nice and cost less than $15 for everything.

Dang you guys. Didn't you read INTO his Topic?
Thunder Blunder here wants to know how to make mods that will make his car go faster or improve performance without spending money!! We know that's impossible so we really shouldn't entertain his ignorance. Then again, he also wants to know how to do the mods without using any tools at all!

Get off the list Bunder Blunder or whatever!!!

John

Take your seats out and paint the seat base assembly. I painted mine and if I had a scanner I would show you how good it looks. All you need is sandpaper, primer, and spraypaint.

Also, get rid of your doording guards and badging. Put a $3.00 mesh grill on.

Joe


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[This message has been edited by Zetec (edited January 26, 2001).]

hey JC PENNEY HIGHHAT, go **** yourself. obviously you're the goddamn idiot. everyone knows there are ways of improving performance with little or no money, i just wanted to see what you other zetecers knew, obviously nothing. sorry to have insulted your stupidity in such a harmful way(you're such a stupid mf). go back to bed with your mommy.