what size is a bored out throttle body ????

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mr_bmw
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:40 pm

i just put bigger tb in the 325 sport the new one is not really noticable in size i just bought mine from bexly motor works and fitted it are you sopossed to see a much bigger difference in size??????????????
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:47 pm

When i fitted my Zone TB it was much bigger in size, you can really notice it. But it was bored out not cast in a larger size.
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:01 pm

mr_bmw wrote:i just put bigger tb in the 325 sport the new one is not really noticable in size i just bought mine from bexly motor works and fitted it are you sopossed to see a much bigger difference in size??????????????
:offtopic: how r you doing mr bmw? did you manage to sort out your little problem you had with your car? :cool:
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:32 pm

what do mean cast in a larger size?
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:36 pm

does any one have a pic of the zone tb or size i would like to match up the 2 sizes to find out if i got ramd :wales: can someone leed me in the wright direction any one have the mans name or number that does the bigger Tb on the zone??? so i talk to him about it
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:47 pm

i was told u cant bore it out any bigger when u lok at it from the tb bit where it meets the rubber pipe it looks really thin and as u look further it starts to get a little bit bigger all im saying is that the egde of the tb looks really thin
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:21 pm

The 325i throttle disc size is about 65mm. The throttle body itself is about 2 or 3mm thick so I don't see how you can get a bigger disc in. The engines Alpina built for the South African 325iS Evo supposedly used a 3.5 E34 throttle disc but they might have used the complete throttle body instead - I'll go and measure one tomorrow.
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Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:26 pm

First i dont have a bbtb, but i dont understand why you are not feeling the difference, coz if you ask anyone on here, that has one they swear blind that they feel the diff. maybe bexley m works did not do a good job on it (not having a pok at them they are vry close pals of mine) :cool: you should go back and speak to them, an see wht they can do, maybe they mixed them up and put the old one back on by accident :lol:
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Fri Mar 11, 2005 1:07 pm

I modified mine by getting a throttle butterfly from an e32 3.5 and got a machine shop to machine the body out to fit. They also tapered it as close to the factory angle as they could. I did feel a difference. Forgot to measure the butterfly before i put it in so i cant tell you guys how big it was. After they had done it it looked like you couldnt machine it out much more, it was pretty thin.
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