088: Is Your Throttle Body WAY Too Big? [#PODCAST]

What makes a good intake plenum? How do you fabricate one to ensure it can handle 100+psi of boost without blowing itself to pieces? And why do we even need to fit an aftermarket intake plenum in the first place? This week’s episode with D’Arcy French of @plazmamanracing answers these questions and many more.

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D’Arcy started his journey in the motorsport world as a machine shop apprentice, but it wasn’t long before he stepped up in a serious way by joining the crew of a Top Fuel team as the blower tech. Eventually, this translated into full-time work designing and CNC milling parts for highly-regarded Australian performance part specialist, Plazmaman.

Plazmaman is well known for its ultra-high quality intercoolers, throttle bodies, and intake plenums and this is naturally where the conversation heads, as Andre and D’Arcy discuss the process of designing and fabricating these works of art that do a great job of attaining an ideal balance of form and function.

Throttle body sizing, the intricacies of plenum design, CAD modelling of parts, 3D printed prototyping, expected results of fitting an aftermarket intake manifold, and much more are all covered in this episode.

Follow D’Arcy and Plazmaman here:
IG: @biggercncguy
IG: @plazmamanracing
YT: PlazmamanAus

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#plazmaman #throttlebody #intakemanifold #plenum #highperformanceacademy #learntotune #motorsport #2jz #rb26 #rb30 #cnc #3dmodelling

[hpa]

This also really helps us gain more traction for the podcast, ensuring we can keep bringing you more and more episodes with legends like this 😎 - Taz

[andrewgould]

Andre I love the all of the podcasts.I always learn something you manage to get some of the best people to interview on the podcast.

[dsmubz]

Andre asks all the right questions, thank you.

[houseofgain]

Great timing, I'm setting up a microtech on a single cylinder 2 stroke for my superkart and I've been trying to decide on single or twin throttle bodies with 4 injectors, 2 of which will be staged and running at the trumpet inlet (external). Wish me luck 😂😂

[R.B_B]

Will be great a podcast with Gale Banks about diesel performance and performance in general turbos, supercharged they superteubo projects.

[GroovesAndLands]

People point out how small my 68mm Bosch DBW throttle is for my 500whp 2JZ... :eyeroll:

With good PID settings on a DBW throttle, you can do a pretty darn good job tuning the TPS vs. APS curve to tame a giant throttle.

[KvasoooO]

Hey guys, I am wondering if I missed anything about the friday podcast. Was looking forward to hearing it😊