ROJO99

Have some tubing left over from the LS6 intake swap just completed. Should I bypass the coolant from the Throttle body? Any adverse effects? How much does the coolant actually effect the air temperature?

sxeC7

Probably no effect, unless you live in a cold & damp area, then the bypass maybe a problem with icing. Otherwise it's a "feel good" mod.

ronwc

Can't hurt -

ZO6vettepilot

I noticed you live in Dayton OH. You get enough cool weather up there to possibly run into throttle plate icing on cool damp days. It doesn't have to be below freezing, just about 40 deg. and the low pressure area just behind the t-plate can form icing. The composit intake doesn't transmit heat like the old cast iron and cast aluminum intake manifolds of days gone by, so that mod is about useless anyway.

zo6vettepilot

FixedRoof

I did it on mine, took 2 mins and was Free. Both on my ex-01 SS and on my 99 FRC. I figured why not, especially down here in FL...

Steve

Joe’s Z06

Waste of time IMO for very few ponies.

78Vette-SA

I like it simply cause it saves a few minutes and less mess when you're swapping Throttle Bodies and intakes more than once on the same car.

BiggieBoy

Waste of time...(my 2 cents)

Bink

Definitely do it - IF you plan on removing the TB often ( as you mod the car).

ArKay99

I don't know, I went from 337rwhp to 413rwhp with that mod...

runamuk

George8211

Don't waste your time.... You'll get better gains by waxing your hood to reduce wind resistance.

BiggieBoy

phils C5 vette

I did that mod when I added the Vornado. Really felt the SOTP jolt.
call me crazy but it was like a shot of 150 cooling the veins

GOOSE JR.

This is a mod that will not be felt in the sotp but some of tuners seem to use it when dyno results are important. So who do you believe.