Agreed with you here, as long as it'll reach. Prob end up with a neater job though more time spent to do it. I intend on doing it myself soon
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Just had a look at mine, i would have to take airbox and most of the intake off..even with that off i am sure when Mazda put this car together they did things to piss me off, every clamp is pointed in a way where you can't get to undo them with out pulling half the engine apart lol FML..take my comment back the barb peice seems way easier ( may have to remove intercooler)
The least amount of ugly hoses in my engine bay the better. Just a random question i've just moved from northern qld to Tas. Has anybody in Vic or Tas done this and if so did you have any issues in winter at all ?
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In Canberra, no issues :)
Never started car below 0 tho... Fair few days of 2-4 deg...
No issues here in melb
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Same, no issues in Melb.
I'll bet that intake air is whistling so fast through that short, stubby throttle-body there isn't enough time for the residual heat from the TB to transfer via the metal:air interface to make one gnat's dick worth of temperature change that anyone could measure with normal gear available.
One could in fact argue the converse, that while the existing arrangement is a very inefficient radiator serving to keep the engine coolant temperature down, it's more useful purpose is maintaining temperature commonality in an ancillary component, especially in cold conditions and even more-so at start-up, where the object is to get engine temps to normal operation levels as fast as possible for reasons of efficiency and pollution control. Further, given the isolation of the TB from the block, rapid standardizing of temperatures across that isolator will reduce the effects of differential expansion and hence stress on mounting bolts and the mounting interface.
Like the other hoary recommended mod about "TB earth-wires", this looks like a solution looking for a problem and that driver reports of "improved/cooler temperatures" are no more than a mechanical placebo effect.