I agree, I did mine - car runs fine when cold too, no difference on warm up, and drives well afterwards but its hard to notice that its better than before. The thottle body is cool to touch now, before you couldn't touch it, it was that hot. Can't be a bad thing to get heat out of that area considering everyone spends so much time adding front mounts etc to cool the intake charge.

Stuff it. I might as well do it.

Worst case sinario is that I end up putting it back to normal and it costs nothing.......

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It was put in place for emission purposes nothing more. Remove it, wont affect general running of the vehicle.

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i have placed some 10mm spacers under the manafold as a thick gasket, made from toughnal material reduces heat sink from the heads this is another option to keep things cool, on my new polished manafold i have removed the idle control off the manfold to further remove heat....

I was looking for this sort of gasket for my GD, but nobody made one, they only made one for GC rexes

the inlet manifold on my99/00 has the same gasket as my01+

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*fark*

too bad, ive sold my car...

p.s. spikey has this gaskets if u guys need em, he PMed me just now

Just did the mod tonight.

See how it goes tomorrow.......

i still dont understand what to do...

Was real easy to do on the GC8. Don't know if it's different for other models.

You just pull the pipe from the L/H side (passenger side) of the throttle body. Pull the other throttle body pipe off at the heater pipe side, this pipe then loops around and connects to the L/H side of the throttle body (just to keep the crap out - doesn't matter if it kinks). The other pipe loops from one heater pipe to the other without kinking and allows the coolant to flow between both heater pipes.

The hardest part was getting the intercooler back on. The plastic pipe that goes on the the turbo outlet is a bastard to get back on.

Anyway I don't know if it's all in my head, or because it's only 3 degrees this morning, but the car seems quite a bit more responsive.


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