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apply more pressure to the wrench
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i would say different gears
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what do you mean by that?
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Under the throttle body, there is a special "torque nut". Take a wrench and remove it. Buy a "two-bodied nut" from autozone. Apply these two nuts to where you took out your one nut. More torque, for cheap.
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Under the throttle body, there is a special "torque nut". Take a wrench and remove it. Buy a "two-bodied nut" from autozone. Apply these two nuts to where you took out your one nut. More torque, for cheap.
how does that work and what kind of gain if any is that?
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you really gain more torque from just removing that and putting those different ones on?
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i always stuck with red pinstriping that i bought at the honda dealership
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I'm not sure, i'm trying to figure it out. It worked for me though! It felt like it gave my car balls.
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lol, OBoi... stop playing with these n00bs. I'll bet some of them went out to look at their cars trying to find this nut.
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lol, what i would do is get some nice piston return springs
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so theres no special "torque nut" under the throttle body?
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blahman never tried it. do a search, there is definetely a torque nut
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