HI!... I took a DBW 75MM TB off a newer 5.4 3 VALVE and bored it out to 82mm. I converted it over a cable drive instead of DBW. I then had a buddy at a machine shop make me up several prototype butterflys. He said it was a pain in the @$$ to make them. They fit perfect, and it was a nice piece, until it accidentilly got dropped off a workbench and cracked into many pieces.

 

do you konw if he used CNC for them. If so i could get that g code and use it in my shop and save me a bunch of time?

 

HI!... I believe it was done on some sort of water jet machine.

 

Yeah
i dont have that. Ask him what kind of drafting software he used to do it. Maybe i have achance of converting it.

 

that sux! i was thinking of using a throttle body spacer as a template tig welding a 3" piece of aluminum pipe to it fabricating the flap and bar and linkage.. but thats to much work for the tools ive got..

 

Ok, so I'm resurrecting a 12 year old thread....whoopity-doo....it's the most relevant thread to the question I have without starting a whole new thread for something that may have another thread for it.

I have a 98 F150 with a 5.4. I found a barely used aftermarket 75mm throttle body in the garage, and I keep thinking that I remember trying it out years ago when I first got it, but I think my truck didn't run quite right. Does a bigger throttle body like this require a tune for the truck to run right? Would it be worth the time & money to get a bigger MAF sensor? How big is the stock MAF sensor and what sizes are available for aftermarket MAF sensors for the 5.4?

TIA!

 

Don't bother. The stock throttle body is plenty big enough unless you are doing some heavy mods.