I can't think of anything negative about doing the bypass.

 

Cool, doing it tomorrow!

 

It's supposed to prevent icing on the throttle blades in cold weather. Seems kind of far fetched too me as I did mine a long time ago and have never had that problem.

 

seriously though. It might as well be another radiator. It acts as one. I guarantee the coolant comes out of there cooler than it goes in, lol. Mine is done. It does take care of the slugishness that you usually get when sitting in traffic.

 

cool I will do mine today. I think I just need a piece of hard plastic tubing to connect the two coolant lines right?

 

well, i'm looking at gettin a 4thg en (still) and if i get one, should i do it?
i'd rather hijack the thread now then start it all over again later..
temps around here don't usually drop below 0 and rarely get even in single digits
would it be alright?

 

Yeah I'm in Texas, so I know that my TB blades won't be freezing anytime soon!

 

I did it and it gained me almost 1 mph.

 

I did it a while back. Make sure to do it when it is cold, lol It can be a bit messy. I also did it on the LS1. I think it is more than worth it!

And it did run cooler.

A good free mod.

 

I live in Minnesota and it gets below 0 at least 1 week out of eash year and I have done the TB bypass and never had a problem with freeze up.

 

How do you do the TB bypass.... after reading all this it makes me want to do it too for a few extra get-up and go points

 

thanks
that's what i thought, just wanted to make sure it was alright

 

Well I did the TB bypass today. First sunny day since I started this thread. Anyway, all I did was reroute the hose that goes into the right side of the throttle body to the metal tube that the exit hose of the coolant goes into. Is it absolutely necessary to plug up the old holes on the TB? Or is it ok to leave them open since it's now just an open port between two holes?

 

Heres info i found on the net for the bypass is so. easy here, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/6647/ta93/tbody.htm


Also is there a list of all the free mods and cheap mods for the lt1 some where ?

 

most definitely do it