I ordered a pthfinder throttle body which came today. its pretty big maybe it will free up a couple hp. My question is does it look damaged. Anyone who has a pathy throttle body confirm this?

pictures can be seen here
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/633706/8

 

wow cool, how much you paid and where u get it from? it doesnt look damaged to me, jus see if you could clean it up a bit

 

One of the throttle linkages looks bent

 

From what I see yes.. just looks like the linkage is bent a little.. nothing you cant fix

 

how do u install one of these? is it from a 3.3L????

 

i Paid $240 shipped and good luck finding one there are only like 10 left on car-part.com

 

Why'd you pay so much if you didnt know if it was damaged or not?

 

hmm because i wanted it? I assume you have never bought anything used before from a junk yard? There is always a chance that it could be damaged. sure it still works and maybe i will just leave cruise control off.

 

no shiznet... I've bought plenty of things from the junkyard but I mean its alot of dough for something you bought online that you didnt even know was good, atleast in the junk yard you can look at it all you want. I'm not bashing on you or anything... what you buy is on you

 

its not that bad, i am sure i can bend it back.Now i have to get the adaptor plate and i will be all set
oh well i just checked there are 4 more on car-part if anyone was looking.

 

Whats the size of it compared to the Q45 TB? LIke you said, once you got the adaptor plate, your all good

 

The cruise being bent won't keeping from working and it looks like it can be bent back. $240 isn't all that bad, I remeber the prices when I bought mine. I got kinda lucky with mine but $200 is what most of them were going for.

What is up with the seat motor?

 

according to stephen max's write up. i will have to by pass the coolant lines that run through the throttle body thing on the bottom. did you notice any driving issues? i remeber you saying you got rid of yours but why? according to everything i read a larger throttle body will give some gain in hp may not be 20whp but maybe 5-8whp is not out of the question.honda civic guys do it all the time. from what i also read the response becomes more sensitive. is this ture?
can you share your insight since you are familiar with this project

 

The Honda boys in FL do this only because they say it is only for cars in real cool tempatures up north. It is only to warm up tB so it wont get stuck or something like that. This is what I have heard and not 100% if this is correct. For all I know, the guy was a ricer.

 

I had problems in cold weather when I bypassed the coolant lines around the tb......it would never come out of high idle.....appartently the ecu always thought it was cold......even after driving for 2 hrs. Replumbed the coolant lines to the tb, and everything was back to normal.
You might consider, if you haven't already port matching the intake plenium to match the new larger size tb or it won't do much good.
I did this on my S12 turbo when replacing the stock CA18 42mm tb for the much larger 60mm tb from the KA motors. Noticed quite a big difference in performance.

 

It looks a little bent, but you can fix it and it won't affect anything. I don't know if it gives any gains, I never dynoed before and after and never had any different track gains from it. I got mine from car-part and only paid like $100 plus shipping, that seems a little steep. I did buy mine around 2 years ago though. My coolant lines have been bypassed for several years now and I have never had any idle problems, but I still have an auto ecu, so it acts differently anyway.

 

There are no proven NA gains but that does not mean there are not any. I had not driveability or idle issues with either the TB or bypassing the coolant.

 

well i will do some more snooping on here to see what i come up with as far as info goes. i was planning on portmatching the intake manifold. Its going to be a while before i can insatll it anyway stephen Max is busy and can't make plates until early december. Anyone have better pictures of there PF throttle body setup they would like to share?

 

 

The second pic is a good one to see how the TB coolant is bypassed. See the two hoses under the TV that are connected.

 

nice . i am going to clean up the throttle body this afternoon. wait to see what happens next.

 

Nobody else has had high idle problems issues in cold weather when bypassing the tb? That weird.......whats up with mine? It did fine all summer, but as soon as the highs started being 45 degrees or less is when the idle would never come down from 1200-1300 rpms. I've even tried it 2 different years, and same thing happened.
Maybe something that only affects the '95s?

 

Was your problem rectified after you replced your stock throttle body and reinstalled the coolant bypass?

 

OT.... But I also have a 5spd w/ auto ECU, does your car say when coasting to a stop, the RPMS stay around 1500 rpm, then when ur completely stopped, the rpms go back down?

 

The auto ecu will do that to you.

 

Ok, good. I thought my car was f'ed up or something.

 

Stephen Max the two plates that you sell are all that is needed for me to bolt this up right?

 

No....I got the stock tb, and auto tranny. It would idle high all the time when cold outside......if I was at a stop light in "D"....it would be hard to keep it stopped with the brake on, and it would do it while in "P".
Also.....took it on a 500 mile trip last winter, and after driving it for about 4 hrs when stopped for a break it was still idling high.
As soon as I re-plumbed the tb it didn't do it again...and still hasn't.

 

You will also need a PF TB gasket.

 

i am selling the throttle body....
http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=356077

 

What size engine?

 

Instead of bumping this old thread you could've always just looked at the thread that he was selling it on...

 

Looks good despite it being bent. I don't think it's worth what you paid. It would be something to have if you put a turbo or supercharger on the max. Seems to me you could get more air with turbo or supercharger than enlarging the throttle body but it would be good to have with one of these other upgrades.

 

i sold this thing 3 months ago.

 

How much did you get? To me they might be worth 75 bux and I don't think they are that hard to get.

 

they are very hard to get if you have a $75 supply get them and sell them for $125 you will be rich

 

125? Hmmm, that sounds ok.

 

yeah the linkage holder thing, is bent but im sure u can re bend it or sumtin to make it fit right.