Throttle Butterfly wedge removal.... BTDT

[JShadzi at aol.com]

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Ya, I did the same on my 80 originally when it had the KH intake and TB, was
pretty jerky at throttle opening, swapping in another TB with the wedge cured
the jerkiness, another spring would help I can imagine as it increases the
resistance and you have more control over exactly how much it can open
initially.

Javad

In a message dated 12/31/2002 12:30:46 AM Pacific Standard Time,
Stpndsmnn at aol.com writes:

> I removed the wedge from the TB butterfly on my KH TB.  I could see no
> reason
> for it to be there so I pulled it off and welded up the holes.  I also
> ported
> and smoothed the inlet and outlet the the TB as well as smoothing the
> leading
> edge of the TB.
>
> I have noticed no Jerky-ness in throttle application but I am running an
> extra return spring so that may help.  Also I have a fairly light flywheel
> and FWD so the transition from idle to spinning tires happens really
> quickly
> if I am not very smooth when starting from a stop..
>
> I guess I didn't know why you weren't supposed to take that wedge out, but
> It
> hasn't bothered me at all...
>
> Just my Experience
> Matt Kramer
> '83 CGTt