Individual throttle bodies, Help me spend my money- Options

[ottox914]

Here I am stuck in UCLA- ugly corner of lower alabamma- (no disrepect intended to those who live here- its just not home for me) working on Katrina storm claims.

3 weeks of 14 hr days. Insurance adjuster.

The storm bonus should cover cost of some used carb manifolds, throttle bodies, injectors, cross bar linkage, and some fuel rail bits and pieces.

What to buy? Where to buy? What size to buy?

Jenvy, TWM, Redline/weber, C.B., others?

They'd be going a basically stock 2.0 with a Kerry Hunter header, euro p/c's, stock cam/valves/springs, and stand alone ECU system. The car runs SCCA DSP, so no changes to the long block allowed. I'd like to size the throttle bodies and injectors to be big enough to move on to a Jakester 2316 in a year or 2, when I save up some more $$ for his kit.

Planning on the linkage from triad west, as it seems most complete, has had good reviews, and uses lots of heim joints. I like that idea.

Any thoughts? Any real world experience?

Thanks!

[Jake Raby]

Must I repeat it TEN thousand times!! Head temps and oil temps are NON related! One can fry while the other is frigid..

As I said earlier- engines that run TOO HOT of head temps OVER EXPAND and then you may have issues with the linkage.

The linkage I designed and fitted in the pics was dynoed to hell and would return from a 7,000 RPM power pull right back to idle and snap the butterflies against the stops with no issues.

I have seen some engines that had issues with bell crank linkage, but those engines were running too hot.

I like Hex Bar linkage as well, BUT in some instances it justcan't be used and with the TWM T/Bs you'll have a VERY difficult time using it- thats why I went bellcrank.