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Originally Posted by jac mac  Al, why in your 58mm model do you not make a TB that is similar in appearance to a 58mm Weber, or in the 48mm version the same as an IDA. In the Replica market its 90% the look factor that sells, eg; Halibrands-Webers-180° exhausts etc.
If someone builds a GT40 replica with 15" Nascar Rims, 4bbl Rochester,& Cast Iron Exhausts they would get laughed out of the building. Fit the Halibrands-Webers-180° exh and the same people would be all over the car.
While your setup 'as is' is OK, it does not 'float my boat'----package it as a 58mm Weber look-a-like and retain all the attributes of the electronic injection and you would have a winner, Would I buy it, nah- but I think a few of the other punters on this forum would, or should  |
Gary Polled the owner of TWM and designer of the throttle bodies was one of the first people to import Webers into the USA for racing (TWM "The Weber Man"). He also invented the SK carb. At the time that he made the throttle body, he was not thinking of the replica market, he was looking to the future. As for WOW factor, the throttle bodies are just a different WOW, but WOW all the same!