Throttle body clean and polish service

[gezmeister]

This is a little project i've been working on for the last few days. Got myself an alloy throttle body and gave it a full clean inside, and set about getting it nice and smooth. After a few hours work its now clean, not a professional finish but i'm happy with it.

Once i've fitted it to my car, i wouldn't mind offering this as a service to do in my spare time. Would anyone be interested? As i said before, its not a professional finish, nor a mirror finish after polishing, but will be much better than stock. Although not necessarily giving hp gains, it improves throttle response imensly and this is something that has been important to me on all my cars.

Was thinking of charging £30 which will include doing the said work and sending back to you 1st class recorded post. Just the inside as want to keep it performance related rather than 'blingin' the outside too.

Please get in contact if interested

[PJW]

Needs more pics

[gezmeister]

Needs more pics

Not really worth putting pics up as won't show anything you don't already know. Basically over time, your throttle body gets really dirty, correct? All i'll do is clean it all up and then sand down using a selection of sanding discs on a rotary tool, and then give it a little polish at the end. Hence a smoother surface area for the air to flow through

[mettyvvc]

i'm interested in this service you are offering

pic's would be great of the work done!!!!!!!!

[gezmeister]

i'm interested in this service you are offering

pic's would be great of the work done!!!!!!!!

As said, i havn't got any pics as yet, but thats mostly to do with the fact that i'm replacing my plastic tb with an alloy one.

Mettvvc - Send me your throttle body and i can take some before and after pics

[gezmeister]

Couple of pics i just took, can't really see much but you can see its clean and shiny

[empsburna]

can you get some back to back rolling road graphs of the before and after polishing?

[gezmeister]

Did mention above that i'm changing from plastic to polished alloy tb, but it could be arranged. I'll keep you posted

[420gazza]

can you get some back to back rolling road graphs of the before and after polishing?

[mg-richard]

are you actually removing any material there or just polishing it, forgive me for being a sceptic

[Cableguy]

are you actually removing any material there or just polishing it, forgive me for being a septic

[mg-richard]

are you actually removing any material there or just polishing it, forgive me for being a septic

[Din]

are you actually removing any material there or just polishing it, forgive me for being a septic

Nice..............

[jase]

can you get some back to back rolling road graphs of the before and after polishing?

[PJW]

To be fair with some brake cleaner and a rag youll get a good shine. The shininess of the inside of the TB isnt going to get you much gains at all.

I thought you were on about shining the outside for engine bay detailing purposes. That would be snazzy.

[gezmeister]

To be fair with some brake cleaner and a rag youll get a good shine. The shininess of the inside of the TB isnt going to get you much gains at all.

I thought you were on about shining the outside for engine bay detailing purposes. That would be snazzy.

Brake cleaner will never match the shine of polish

Throttle response is the major factor here, all i'm doing is offering the service, so we'll see who's interested.

I'm looking into modifications inside too (cutting unneeded metal from centre rod etc)

[gezmeister]

are you actually removing any material there or just polishing it, forgive me for being a sceptic

As i just replied above, just a polish first but i'm looking at removing unneeded material if i can

[mg-richard]

have you thought about modifiying the butterfly itself, making it thinner maybe altering the shaft aswell, i think that could work

[gezmeister]

have you thought about modifiying the butterfly itself, making it thinner maybe altering the shaft aswell, i think that could work

Was thinking about knife edging the butterfly. If by the shaft you mean the rod that the butterfly connects to, i'm going to cut a section out of my one and see how that goes

[mg-richard]

have you thought about modifiying the butterfly itself, making it thinner maybe altering the shaft aswell, i think that could work

Was thinking about knife edging the butterfly. If by the shaft you mean the rod that the butterfly connects to, i'm going to cut a section out of my one and see how that goes

yeh, kind of stuff they do to su carbs

[gezmeister]

I'll see how it goes, i'm after better throttle response and this should help it no end

[Dickie adams]

seems like you've got yourself a nice little project to get stuck into

[Imran]

i am sure i have rad somewhere that there are gains to be had by modding the TB -

you need to look into it a bit more mate..

i think the principle was to aid better airfolw or something

best of luck

[gezmeister]

i am sure i have rad somewhere that there are gains to be had by modding the TB -

you need to look into it a bit more mate..

i think the principle was to aid better airfolw or something

best of luck

I've heard that too. I'm after better throttle reponse, but hey, if i get 2bhp extra, its a bonus

[MGJohn]

yeh, kind of stuff they do to su carbs

Exactly!

Read up on it and do the job yourself and save a few quid. It is not difficult.
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[gezmeister]

Exactly! Read up on it and do the job yourself and save a few quid. It is not difficult.

I'd rather you didn't tripe n onions on my fire here, so to speak. I'm offering this as a service, so if people want it done, they can ask on here. This topic is not for people to say ' do it yourself its cheaper' !

[MGJohn]

Exactly! Read up on it and do the job yourself and save a few quid. It is not difficult.

I'd rather you didn't tripe n onions on my fire here, so to speak. I'm offering this as a service, so if people want it done, they can ask on here. This topic is not for people to say ' do it yourself its cheaper' !

Apologies ~ didn't read start of thread and only responded to a later reply so did not realise it was a RT Member business venture.

Good luck.
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