Guess it all depends on what your goal is... . neater intercooler piping, or performance. If you look at the RB20/25 plenum, the length of the runners are obviously incredibly long (post throttle body), and this had a direct affect on engine torque. I have an article in Zoom magazine where this was tested out on a dyno and the results are quite amazing... for the RB20 and 25, the standard plenum makes better torque right up the power band when compared to the 26 one. Makes sense.... anyone with experience in these matters will tell you the correlation between runner length and torque.
Relocating the throttle body to the front of a standard RB20/25 plenum is also quite a common mod altho i would not recommend it... ure it makes for neater, shorter intercooler piping, but the air distribution inside the plenum is altered and may not qive you the results you want... Should not be too much of a problem when you're on boost, but when off boost there is definitely a detrimental effect... Air is like any other fluid - finds the path of least resistance... And it too does not like going around sharp corners..
I would recommend just getting a RB26 plenum, adapting it to fit, or an original GReddy plenum... comes at a premium, but then again.. if you wanna do it right take the tried and tested method...
on an R34 with a GReddy plenum, you need a smaller battery and you can change its orientation to accommodate the intercooler piping. The TCS has to go tho... Good simple mod is to replace the throttle body with a bored out RB20DE NEO throttle... then you don't need to muck around with the TPS or Throttle Vavle. Connectors are also the same.
i've contemplated doing this too... and in the end, i've decided to stick with the standard setup...
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