Quote Originally Posted by Trannyman95 View Post
I know Lee, thats I am try to break things down and make it easier to follow And you know I dont have an issue with that! An apples to apples comparison is the only way to see what is going on. You are correct that the hole in the throttle body isnt that large, but it is much larger than the bottleneck downstream that was added in that didnt exist in stock form. Like anything else that have to move from A to B and kink, bend, tight corner, etc will restrict flow, especially with all of the above PLUS a greatly reduced size is at hand. The smalled point of the passage is the hole in the throttle which is the tail end of the path. The modified intake is the largest restriction right at the start of the path where it needs to be the largest in order to move adequately from A to B. The only way to know what you have is to put a pressure gauge right on the fill cap and go make some WOT runs and see what it does. Again this really isnt comparing apples to apples unless you do it as your car sits THEN pull the IC back off and test with factory operation...... But I know you dont want to tear the car back apart to find out lol! Also you will have to run the same boost level and rpm for the A-B comparison otherwise it wont be as accurate.
What you say makes sense, and I get it. I'm just wondering if it is possible that no harm is being done. Without doing what you mentioned, we don't have anything to really go by other than past history and that looks favorable. And you are right, I'm not touching anything.LOL After all it took me a long time to carefully assemble this in the first place.