throttle body bypass plugs

[hi-wayusedparts]

Has anyone tried these? I was wondering if they are worth it.
I went to Rockingham last Friday night and my car was running pretty warm. I was looking for some things to help keep the heat down.

 

[blackbuick87]

Dont spend your money on these plugs. Just disconnect one hose at the top and the other at the bottom and use the free ends to cover the openings like this )(

 

[Ken Cunningham]

What if I want to keep my car looking absolutely stock, but want the benefits of a cooler throttle body? My story: Being the cheapskate that I am, I didn't want to spring for the plugs to go inside the hoses. So I just took off the hoses and stuck in machine screws with heads larger than the openings in the T.B. After a couple of months, I got this uneasy image of the screw heads dissolving thru electrolysis or something. The thought of a couple of screws loose in the cooling system gave me the willies, so I took the hoses back off and took the screws out (they looked fine, btw). I looped the hoses, ala blackbuick 87. But I would rather have the hoses look like the stock hookup, but here in sunny So. Cal I never need the T.B. heated by the coolant. So, any ideas for a rust-proof, dirt cheap, stock looking solution???

 

[machinegun]

Once you disconnect the cooling system metal lines passenger side from the Throttle body, the TB is no longer connected to anything in the cooling system. You can leave those things open. I personally just went down to the local super parts store and purchased vacum caps the right size and put them on the throttl body coolant line entrances. I then took one of my stock hoses and ran it from one metal line to the other with the origianl hose clamps. Total cost about a buck to a buck and a half plus 15 minutes work.