{"id":226,"date":"2008-08-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:40:51","slug":"bel-airbigger-throttle-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Throttle Body On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Falling behind on the site again, and real life has got in the way of the cars a lot. The Camaro had been giving me a load of knock problems which I decided were not being helped by the 52mm throttle body. I pulled the stock one off the &#8217;55 which sorted the Camaro out, but left me with a headache on the &#8217;55 throttle cable. I&#8217;d cut it to suit the stock bracket, but it was too short with the bigger cam on the side of the 52mm body. I could either do it the easy way and swap them back or make a new bracket.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"276\" alt=\"new_throttle_bracket.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2008\/08\/new_throttle_bracket.jpg\" \/>   After a lot of measuring and re-measuring I ended up with a cardbaord template for a new one and set about making it out of aluminium. After a few hours of messing about I was happy with the result and it was ready for a test run. With the logger hooked up, I took it out for a run, gave it a little bit of a tune, then gave it a blast. No change 0-60, still at 5.9 seconds, but it shifts a lot nicer which I guess is the engine getting more air at a given throttle position. Looking forward to driving it again once the new brakes are on.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"355\" alt=\"At_Home.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2008\/08\/At_Home.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling behind on the site again, and real life has got in the way of the cars a lot. The Camaro had been giving me a load of knock problems which I decided were not being helped by the 52mm throttle body. I pulled the stock one off the &#8217;55 which sorted the Camaro out, but left me with a headache on the &#8217;55 throttle cable. I&#8217;d cut it to suit the stock bracket, but it was too short with the bigger cam on the side of the 52mm body. I could either do it the easy way and swap them back or make a new bracket.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"276\" alt=\"new_throttle_bracket.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2008\/08\/new_throttle_bracket.jpg\" \/>   After a lot of measuring and re-measuring I ended up with a cardbaord template for a new one and set about making it out of aluminium. After a few hours of messing about I was happy with the result and it was ready for a test run. With the logger hooked up, I took it out for a run, gave it a little bit of a tune, then gave it a blast. No change 0-60, still at 5.9 seconds, but it shifts a lot nicer which I guess is the engine getting more air at a given throttle position. Looking forward to driving it again once the new brakes are on.   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"443\" height=\"355\" alt=\"At_Home.jpg\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2008\/08\/At_Home.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bel-air","category-engine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}