No more broken throttle shafts
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After seeing how Skunk2 acts in the Honda community, I am not surprised they're trying to find some new customers. Doing ---- like this kind of killed their reputation in the Honda world:
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So from skimming a few threads I gather that they get their supply from cheap chinese/taiwan manufacturers, flip it for huge profits, claim to do R&D in house but don't, and put up a bounty for two honda forum users after basically talking ---- and calling them out on it? Either way, true or not, the whole thing is very sketchy. Product quality aside, the whole bounty thing blows my mind. What do they hope to accomplish if they even found these guys? Beat them up?
Skunk2 Bounty – Cash Reward - K20A.org .:. The K Series Source . Honda / Acura K20a k24a Engine Forum
Skunk2 Bounty – Cash Reward - K20A.org .:. The K Series Source . Honda / Acura K20a k24a Engine Forum
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Put my Skunk 2 throttle body on tonight and it whistles LOUDLY at %10-%20 or so throttle opening, is anybody else getting that???
I'm wondering if it's just not matching up well with my DDM Stage 2 intake, the inner diameter of the intake pipe is 60mm so the air is going from 60 to 64 (throttle body) and then back down again at the lip of the intake manifold where it meets the throttle body.
I was also thinking it may be the really weird idle air intake setup, there's that weird adapter plate with the offset holes before the IAC itself that's creeping me out.
Any ideas???
I'm wondering if it's just not matching up well with my DDM Stage 2 intake, the inner diameter of the intake pipe is 60mm so the air is going from 60 to 64 (throttle body) and then back down again at the lip of the intake manifold where it meets the throttle body.
I was also thinking it may be the really weird idle air intake setup, there's that weird adapter plate with the offset holes before the IAC itself that's creeping me out.
Any ideas???
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Spent a chunk of my day on the phone with Brian from Skunk 2 and in the end his tech guys said that there's no way around the whistling, it's the resonance from the hole that goes down into the idle valve like Savington said. Sort of like blowing 90 degrees across the open top of a glass beer bottle.
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Here's the sound, for the record...
http://www.ciottiindustries.com/audio/Miata/Skunk2.mp3
I took it off and boxed it up today, hopefully I can find someone with a turbo car and $300 burning a hole in their pocket at Miatas in Boone
http://www.ciottiindustries.com/audio/Miata/Skunk2.mp3
I took it off and boxed it up today, hopefully I can find someone with a turbo car and $300 burning a hole in their pocket at Miatas in Boone
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