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during my 60mm throttle body conversion, I have ripped 2 of the shaft seals during removal. after hours of browsing, the only "fix" for this seems to be buying a new throttle body and hoping not to rip the "new" seals while removing them again. I have also found during a custom pressure test of the original throttle bodies, that anything over 12 lbs of positive pressure, the seals begin to leak. like most owners on here, I run more than that. furthermore, a 20 year old seal isn't something I like re-using. the test, which involved isolating the throttle body off the vehicle, fabbing up a rear block off plate with seal, and pushing over 15 lbs of positive pressure, showed me exactly what I feared... failure. This has lead me to inquire with 3 companies about creating a new double lip seal that hopefully exceeds the OEM seal with better materials, and a thicker lip surface to sustain higher boost pressures, while maintaining the OEM metal seal seat. So the question at hand is, if one of the companies can successfully create a new/better seal, would anyone on here (or promoting companies, CZP, Z1, Ash, Etc) be interested in purchasing or carrying these?
just food for thought.
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