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Aftermarket or modified throttle body

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Aftermarket or modified throttle body

A sharp discriminator between Superstock and Open/GP.


Runabout Superstock keeps the stock throttle body even though the whole exhaust and turbo can be aftermarket. Easy to get wrong.

Where it stands, class by class

14 classes, grouped by the answer rather than listed one by one, because an answer that holds for a class usually holds for every class that borrows its rules.

OEM part required 1 class

Throttle bodies must remain stock. No throttle plate angle change, no housing modification, NO PHENOLIC OR ALUMINIUM SPACERS behind the throttle body. · SKM.5.2

OEM part required 1 class

Stock as supplied. No plate angle change, no housing modification, no spacers behind it. · RAL.5.3

OEM part required 1 class

Stock as supplied. No plate angle change, no housing modification. · RSS.5.3

The rules do not say 1 class

Throttle body rules are not stated separately in · RAS

Legal 1 class

Modified or aftermarket, butterfly count up to the number of cylinders. · SKSS.5.3

Legal 1 class

Explicitly permitted by this class document.

Legal 1 class

SPGP.6.3

Legal 1 class

Modified or aftermarket; butterflies may be increased up to the cylinder count.


Aftermarket or modified throttle body: if the rule your class applies reads differently to you, or the rulebook has changed since this was read, ask. We answer with the section we read it from, or that we have not read it. Ask a rules question.

Every IJSBA class · where the rulebooks differ · signed checks on parts the shop sells.

Fuel · four stroke · legal outright in 5 of 14

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