If you have the spacer kit, or especially if you installed it yourself, then you know what I'm talking about.

I'm just wondering if you bypassed the throttle body coolant feed or not. I'm thinking about bypassing it in the summer, then rerouting it through the TB in the winter.

Any opinions?

 

You should be fine if you bypass it just for the summer and reroute it for the winter. You might see a few additional gains but I dont think it would be very much.

 

Ya I did. I would do what you said, because the winters are pretty cold up where you live...My TB is cool to the touch 100% of the time now because of the bypass.

 

Alright, sweet. Because my throttle body is hot to the touch. It's kind of stupid to do the spacer kit and still feed the coolant when it's not really necessary.

I'm gonna reroute it tomorrow after my exam.

 

Be sure to let us know if you notice any difference. I didnt route my coolant since I know I will forget to change it back when winter comes in.

 

Yeah, that's my biggest concern. I'm forgetful, so there's a good chance I might not remember. But oh, well. What's important is NOW, or however they say it.

 

Did mine too, running great.

 

what does bypassing the TB coolant feed do? i live in miami, florida... the coldest it gets here is in the 50's... would i benefit from this? would it be ok to run it like that year-round for me?

 

according to the instructions it wont hurt anything if you leave it like that in the winter. Just if you do some highway driving in very cold temps, your TB may get too cold, but would quickly warm up if you slowed down some. I guess if you ran like 4 hours straight at 80mph in 0 degrees...then you may have some ice buildup? in other words - go bypass that TB unless you plan on taking a trip to Alaska

 

all i have right now is the AEM CAI and Mugen cooling mods. how would i go about doing this? is there a DIY? my mugen cooling mods wont affect this will it?

 

The coolant runs through the bottom of the TB. Bypassing it takes heat away from the TB and allow cooler air to enter the intake tract.

And yes, I bypassed mine. I may connect it back come winter. It's a few minute job, just gotta watch the antifreeze dripping on my driveway.

 

where do you bypass it to? just plug it or what?

 

I think there is some mis-reading of this thread...I think this is only for those who have Thermoblock TB and intake spacers....this keeps the TB naturally cool w/o having to have collant fed to it....if you DO NOT have the thermoblock set, I would highly advise NOT trying to re-route anything

 

and why would it matter if you didnt have the spacer kit? I sure cant see a reason not too.

 

It doesn't matter if you have the spacers or not. You could certainly try this and see if it makes a difference if you don't have the spacer.

The thermoblok spacer comes with a coupler than allows you to unplug both hoses from the bottom of the TB and connect them together using the coupler.

 

Right, you don't have to have the spacer kit to do this.

It's just that the kit comes with a coupler for that purpose, and I was just curious who actually used it.

All you have to do is get a coupler, and connect the coolant inlet and outlet hoses together, instead of hooking them up to the throttle body.

 

cool. so it should only take like 5 minutes or less to do this then?

anyone got pics of where the hoses are located on the TB? :o

 

if you look, there are only 2 hoses on the bottom of the TB - so connect them together

 

damn, i've read of people doing this before and thought it was hard to do or you had to have some mechanical experience and shit to do this.

shit, it seems that even a monkey can do this!

thanks a lot guys... im gonna try this out this weekend.

 

I would rate installing these spacers nearly as easy as installing an air intake - simple tools and its all very straight forward. And they even come with very good instructions with pictures for those who use instructions .

 

I thought the hardest part (not that it was hard per say more time consuming) was removing the gasket from the intake manifold. Slipped a couple of time and cut my hand. My TL is a 99 and the gasket was on there really good.

 

you mean the TB gasket? The stock IM gasket is metal and doesnt stick to it - but ya it took me a good 15 min to get the old TB gasket off

 

Yeah, same here. I had to go out and get one of those scraper things. It was like 4 bucks, but it only took a few minutes with it. Is the gasket glued on there or what??

 

It did take quite some time to take off that gasket. We kept spraying it down with some brake cleaner and used a razor to scrape it off. Took about 20mins to get it all off. I dont think they are glued on, its probably stuck due to the heat.

 

ya nearly 6 years and 86k miles will do that (to mine at least)