If I wasnt so busy I would be willing to tune it might be able to work in a transfer credit from your school in controls. If you wanted to do it yourself I could certainly point you in the right direction, aka point at greg banishes books.

 

man if this actually happens i have dibs on the first working model

 

no u don't. 03-04 Ions came with a cable-driven throttle that should bolt up.

 

Eh, making one, mechanically work is fairly easy. My gut says something in the 35mm to 45mm range on throttle bodies would be a good start to look at. Then doing some math for the total runner length. See how different the calculated runner diameter is from 80% of the valve area, and from the diameter of the port. Go with the one that makes engineering sense, velocity stacks. 1 common TB plate shaft, get a flange waterjet up, have someone do some pretty aluminum welding, then spend the rest of the time tuning the sucker. Mechanically ITB's are easy as dirt. You can do the math with pen and paper, though excel or mathcad makes life much easier. Its the tuning that is the absolute bitch.

 

^This^ there is no easy route with the tuning but it can be done

 

Dude, just buy the Kinsler Performance one, its been out for like 4-5 years now.

 

The ITB is a good idea but it will only help the one or two people who actually go for it.

If you want to do something that will be helpful for the platform, make something for the LSJ or LNF. People will actually use that product.

Here is some food for thought...

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l...nifold-122199/

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l...23/index2.html

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l...nifold-241025/

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l...pped**-177470/

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/2-0l...nifold-132686/

 

i was referring to cobalts on the cobalt forum!