Just been reading scooby killers and some guy in a Nova says he has throttle bodies and whoops scoobies just wondering what they are

 

Everycar has a throttle body, just depends what size. All it does is just let a bit more air into your engine, you will notice 1-2bhp by putting on a bigger one nothing to shout out about at all lol, so tell him good luck in his nova.

Usual circumstance is 1.2 nova has taken a 2 litre throttle body off a calibra or something of the likes

 

Cheers

 

Standard Nova will have a single carb or a single throttle body as part of the plenum injection. He'll have taken that off and fitted 4 individual throttle bodies, one for each cylinder. The fuel injection equivalent of a pair of twin webers.

On the Astra 16V engine a set of SBD tapered throttle bodies and a decent exhaust is good for 208bhp, up from the standard 155bhp, so a worthwhile mod.

 

why go on to cr@p site like that anyway.

 

Vauxhall's 1.6 16V engine (C or X16XE) is a very tuneable engine. I used to run a track car (Corsa), with TBs, engine management, steel rods, pistons etc. 215bhp at 8250 rpm (rev limit of 9000rpm) made it pretty rapid - once rolling, up to 80mph, it was no slower than my current MY03 STI running 340bhp. Stripped out Novas weigh around 750kgs - with 200bhp, they have a power to weight ratio similar to a Newage Scoob running close to 400bhp. Of course, at higher speeds, from a standing start and in wet conditions, a Scoob will **** all over them

 

Could be SDB or QED to name 2.

 

Normal thorttle bodies mean the above pic, as in the plural bodies I.e more than one. Best thing you can do to get the most out of a normally aspirated engine

Usually it means a set of Webber DCOEs, but in this modern age of tree hugging, it's EFi bodies and mappable ECUs instead, with less flame spitting and more geeky types playing with laptops