Am I gullible or does this actually work?
 

You are only gullible if you believe that it will give you a hp increase. It won't.

I think you need to ask yourself the question; would BMW change the design of their throttle body in order to increase power/torque and reduce fuel consumption by the amounts claimed in that advertising?

There have been a number of different designs of these types of devices sold over the years. I have seen first hand on a couple of old carby cars where they did make marginal differences, particularly to economy, but I think their effect on anything fuel injected is negligible at best.

Thanks guys. I was very sceptical but you just never know these days......

Some tests have shown that theoretically they can have an impact, as long as they are at least 1 meter long. Then you just have to deal with the fact that you have very poor throttle response (and you have a pipe sticking up 1 meter through your hood).

Put it in the same category as the turbinators, vortex generators, miracle magnets on the fuel line, brown's gas generators, and low restriction air filters.

I knew I shouldn't have gone and spent all that money on those things :p:

damnit guys, that's because you don't know anything. You need muffler bearings and blinker fluid. Now that shit works.

Don't forget cross drilled brake lines!

:rofl:

and a new radiator insulator and piston return springs!

In all seriousness I'd love to get before and afters on our dyno using these, just in case....

ECS Tuning

All you guys making fun of gadgets that are supposed to increase power and/or reduce fuel consumption -so silly! Don't you know there one magic thing that adds HP instantly with minimal installation hassles, not to mention increases cool points? Behold! Available all over eBay. Guaranteed to add at least 8HP!

So cool it even works with non-BMW vehicles!

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Yea but a turbo sticker gives me turbo powa. Black paint is 5hp. Dubs, adds 20hp. Muffler bearings add 14hp. Exhaust whistle that goes woot woot adds 35 friggen hp.

Dinan can suck it. lol.

actually it did work on my jeep cherokee, but then it also had a big bore exhaust extractors and a ported head, the improvement was minimal, but noticeable.

Yea phenolic spacers is what they should be. Supposed to reduce head conduction to the TB. By itself, this ain't doing shit. Deff not worth it without a true CAI, not just a cone filter on the pipe. Really not so much as adding power, but more of a loss of power due to heat soak.

You don't need it.

It you tap it for a nitrous jet and put a 50 shot though it, it will add power. Don't forget to reprogram your WOT fuel table.

If it blocks coolant from circulating through the TB, it will help some on power but hurt other ways.

yea like cold start, in the winter, when your car is in 20" of snow, and you just walked around 30 minutes to find it.

We don't have that here in Houston. I can run DRs and no TB coolant as long as I live.



But people do use those spacers not for what people sell them for, but for making a nitrous block.