[TitanRider]

What is this? How do you do this? What kind of performance gain is acheived?

 

[ablexus]

What is this? How do you do this? What kind of performance gain is acheived?

There are two plastic lines running through the throttle body, keeping the TB hot as hell. What you do is, you remove the two lines and plug the holes with bubble gum. Then, you rev your engine really high and do a neutral drop. Accelerate to 114 mph, this should get the coolant temperature nice and high so the gum will pop out. Then, you coolant will jet out all over the place, smelling great and giving nice birdies and kitties somthing to drink.

After a while, your temperature gauge will go up. Ignore this. Continue driving, bouncing the truck against the speed limiter, until your block fuses into a giant hunk of steel.

And whammo! Enjoy your brand new boat anchor! Guaranteed to sink to the bottom of the ocean faster than your old Titan.

Andrew

PS do a search. This is one of the few sites with good search engines. I think I spent a week on this forum reading before I posted anything.

 

[baseballfanz]

The theory behind that is if you remove the hot coolant circulating around the throttle body, thus giving you colder denser air going into teh intake. You basically bypass the throttle body and rerouting the coolant. Does it work I don't know as I have not tried it yet.:cheers:

 

[ablexus]

My butt dyno isn't impressed.

However, it's only tuned for 10 whp increments.

Andrew

 

[bbomar]

Here's a nice pic!!

 

[ablexus]

You could do the entire mod without anything other than that picture.

Thanks to JetTech for constructing perfectly labeled pictures.

Andrew

 

[TitanRider]

Would this void the warranty? Thanks for all the info and I did try the search and nothing remotely close popped up so I posted so I could get some real answers.

 

[bbomar]

You could do the entire mod without anything other than that picture.

Thanks to JetTech for constructing perfectly labeled pictures.

Andrew

Yeah, I think he likes to use his Titan as a guinea pig!!:lol:

 

[baseballfanz]

Would this void the warranty? Thanks for all the info and I did try the search and nothing remotely close popped up so I posted so I could get some real answers.

I'm sure the dealer would think so. Anyway it's not hard or take long to revert back to normal before you take it in. If you decide to do it let us know how it turn out.:cheers:

 

[04RamHemi]

The theory behind that is if you remove the hot coolant circulating around the throttle body, thus giving you colder denser air going into teh intake. You basically bypass the throttle body and rerouting the coolant. Does it work I don't know as I have not tried it yet.:cheers:

That's an interesting mod. You have to ask yourself, why did Nissan engineer this in the first place? What purpose does it serve? Before doing any mod, you should use some common sense. I am eager to find out why Nissan designed the engine this way. Why would you make something that reduces performance? I can understand putting a resonator on the intake and exhaust to make it quiet, but why would you intentionally increase the temp of your incoming air? There has to be a reason behind it.

 

[baseballfanz]

but why would you intentionally increase the temp of your incoming air? There has to be a reason behind it.

I have not done this but on average the Titan coolant temp. is 190F, the avg. air intake is 100 - 120F depending on the intake that's use. So in theory taking the 190F coolant temp away from the TB should cool it down a bit.
My intake temp is usually at 120F, the other day when my truck kinda overheat the intake temp went to 159F so coolant temp would affect intake temp.

 

[bbomar]

Then I have to ask the question. Are the Armada and QX56 setup the same way?? Is this to somewhat curve HP on the Titan? I really don't think it would curve it, but then again....

 

[baseballfanz]

Then I have to ask the question. Are the Armada and QX56 setup the same way?? Is this to somewhat curve HP on the Titan? I really don't think it would curve it, but then again....

I think the extra 10 on the QX come from the 2 degree advance from the factory, why else would they required 93 octane? Not sure just a guess.

 

[StuntDriver06]

There are two plastic lines running through the throttle body, keeping the TB hot as hell. What you do is, you remove the two lines and plug the holes with bubble gum. Then, you rev your engine really high and do a neutral drop. Accelerate to 114 mph, this should get the coolant temperature nice and high so the gum will pop out. Then, you coolant will jet out all over the place, smelling great and giving nice birdies and kitties somthing to drink.

After a while, your temperature gauge will go up. Ignore this. Continue driving, bouncing the truck against the speed limiter, until your block fuses into a giant hunk of steel.

And whammo! Enjoy your brand new boat anchor! Guaranteed to sink to the bottom of the ocean faster than your old Titan.

Andrew

PS do a search. This is one of the few sites with good search engines. I think I spent a week on this forum reading before I posted anything.

will not "bounce off speed limiter" just smoothly stop pulling.... and the block would fuse to a giant hunk of aluminium....not steel

 

[sc186]

Nearly every vehicle has coolant circulating either through the T.B. or somewhere in relation to the T.B. to prevent the butterfly from sticking from freezing. Manufacturers also do this because of the favorable dynamics that warmer intake air offers in regards to engine starting and emissions.

 

[TitanRider]

I will do it when I have the time. Why don't you guys try it out? I think it won't hurt anything as long as the outside air doesn't go below freezing.

 

[baseballfanz]

I will do it when I have the time. Why don't you guys try it out? I think it won't hurt anything as long as the outside air doesn't go below freezing.

RockyMtMan did this but he put a valve on it to close up the flow, when he need to in the winter time he just turn the valve to let it flow again.

 

[04RamHemi]

I have not done this but on average the Titan coolant temp. is 190F, the avg. air intake is 100 - 120F depending on the intake that's use. So in theory taking the 190F coolant temp away from the TB should cool it down a bit.
My intake temp is usually at 120F, the other day when my truck kinda overheat the intake temp went to 159F so coolant temp would affect intake temp.

No, I was not asking the Titan owners, I was questioning why Nissan would have hot coolant around the Throttle body. Talk about killing performance. There are not any coolant lines that I can see by my TB on the Ram, but now I have to go look!

 

[ablexus]

will not "bounce off speed limiter" just smoothly stop pulling.... and the block would fuse to a giant hunk of aluminium....not steel

Sorry... used to vehicles with iron blocks, and manuals which "bounce" when the fuel cutoff occurs. Thanks for the clarification.

And the reason that the hot coolant is going through the TB is the aforementioned heating of the TB in cold environments. A few hp is cheap insurance for a car that starts in Canada... if they had a bunch of them in Canada (which I didn't see when I was up there)

Andrew

 

[baseballfanz]

No, I was not asking the Titan owners, I was questioning why Nissan would have hot coolant around the Throttle body. Talk about killing performance. There are not any coolant lines that I can see by my TB on the Ram, but now I have to go look!

My bad, just re-read your post slowly and carefully and see you are asking why Nissan did this. but it's just not Nissan, Chevy and most company do this. Maybe they did it so we can have something to do and call it a "mod".