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Old 04-03-2012, 09:34 PM
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Question How can I tell if I have a plenum spacer installed?

Hey,

I bought my car used, nowhere close to the first owner. It has a few basic mods, drilled and slotted rotors, intake, headunit.

I highly doubt it has a spacer, but it would be a shame to buy one and take it all apart just to find that I wasted my time/money and have to resell it again.

Is there any way to tell? Maybe the noise it makes?

Thanks!
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Look to see if there is a spacer mounted between the upper and lower plenum. If you dont know what those are...search.
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Im bored and Im in a pretty good mood so i'll make someone's life easier.

This shiny piece in the middle (between the 'upper' and 'lower' plenum) is called the plenum spacer.

Old 04-03-2012, 11:04 PM
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Post a picture of your engine bay if you cant tell on yours based off the above pic...
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lol at ImWeeZzel's comment.

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In case the first picture confused you... and since you don't know how to search.

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Wow, everyone is so helpful and informative. Where am I?
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Hey it helped me, since I am a new z owner I had no idea, now I will be doing it to mine very soon
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Originally Posted by Cass007
Wow, everyone is so helpful and informative. Where am I?
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Originally Posted by Cass007
Wow, everyone is so helpful and informative. Where am I?



Originally Posted by white boy
Hey it helped me, since I am a new z owner I had no idea, now I will be doing it to mine very soon


Check out Motordyne - they make a great product (I love mine) and have an incredibly good set of instructions to install it yourself.
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Originally Posted by rotchcrocket04







Check out Motordyne - they make a great product (I love mine) and have an incredibly good set of instructions to install it yourself.


Yup,and a note, not all spacers are shiny, the Motordyne spacer is matched to the casting style of the stick plenum very stealthy
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