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Old 11-08-2003, 11:59 PM
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Stock TB flow?? Why upgrade?

Can someone tell me how many CFM the stock TB is (MM too)? and when/why would I need more? (besides increasing CID)
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Old 11-09-2003, 01:26 AM
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I remember seeing a discussion on this same subject that went on for about four pages a while back. I can't remember the exact numbers that you are wanting but I do know that it was decided that unless you are very heavily modded then it wouldn't make a difference anyways. It is better to spend your 2 or 300 dollors on something worth it, like headers, RR, something. I thought about the same thing some time ago. You can probably do a search and find a discussion or two on it.

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Old 11-09-2003, 03:33 AM
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I'm not sure of the cfm but the stock tb is 48mm.
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Old 11-09-2003, 04:50 AM
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I remeber reading somewhere that the stocker flows around 650 CFM.
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Old 11-09-2003, 11:15 AM
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Two 48mm blades, is 96mm, thats a lot bigger than an ls1 tb, and they do fine with a stock one for awhile, it wouldnt be worth it for 3-400$
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Originally posted by $hawn
Two 48mm blades, is 96mm, thats a lot bigger than an ls1 tb, and they do fine with a stock one for awhile, it wouldnt be worth it for 3-400$
It doesn't work like this, the relation is not linear. It goes like this: 48 * 48 * 2 = 4608.
I don’t know how big the single bore LS1 tb, but a single bore that is sqrt(4608) = 68mm will flow the same as stock LT1.
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Old 11-12-2003, 12:21 AM
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It doesn't work like this, the relation is not linear. It goes like this: 48 * 48 * 2 = 4608.
You know, its crazy that you actually know that! So why isn't it linear? Why doesn't it come out to 96mm?
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Originally posted by delbuort


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just your 20 cents?

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Old 11-12-2003, 01:15 AM
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Can you buy 52 blades for the lt1. Im pretty good at porting and if the blades our cheap then all it will cost is my time.

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There was a post about this a while ago. I still don't know whether it's worth it to fork out the 300+ for one.

Here's a link about it. http://web.camaross.com/forums/showt...&highlight=CFM
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I don't need one, but I put a 52mm TB from BBK on mine cause I bought it used for a cheap price. I knew I would put one on one day, and since I found it cheap, I went ahead and got it.
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