True or False:
A bigger throttle body will flow more air.
True.
A bigger throttle body will flow more air all the time.
False.
No intake component will flow more air than the engine is demanding. It's simply not possible. So when is the engine most likely to demand more airflow than factory intake components can deliver? At very large and wide open throttle openings, of course. Do you drive at WOT on your way to the work, church, the post office, the grocery store - most of the time, in other words? No. Nobody does. The laws and traffic realities won't permit it. So what would a bigger throttle body do for you for the vast majority of real world driving? Not one damn thing.
But it could do some harm. At any rpm, the air flow through a smaller throttle body will be faster than through a larger throttle body. The bigger the throttle body, the slower the flow. Did you know that airflow in intake and exhaust components can STALL under some circumstances? It can if the components are too large for the application. This is not a bigger is always better deal. Few things work that way.
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