Vortech supercharger
 

Well tomorrow is the day. Hoping to have the kit installed and car running by friday afternoon. Will post pic of install here hopefully get some videos not sure when the car will get out the garage with this damn snow.Attachment 23085

Can't wait to see the results. To date, this is the only direction I want to go.

Agree'd ^

awaiting pics/video/review please!

What he said :)

Well Merry Christmas and very happy New Year!

Congrats, but I'd get it done today.... Ya know with the apocalypse and all.

Looking forward to your results and opinions :)

where did you get the kit, and whose tune are you tuning it with?
that looks like a Perrin oil cooler kit..

Moar pics! I want to see this kit installed.

Well after waking up at 3 this morning and getting off work late i had about 4 hours to work on the kit. Almost done just have to finish some wiring and tying the boost lines in and some other lose ends. Have about a couple more hours tomorrow then should be done.

I got my kit from Vortech ordered it awhile ago. I already have Perrins tune just have to flash the car tomorrow.

Hope the world doesn't end when i am sleeping.

Have more pics of the install will post more tomorrow with a video.


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Looks great!!! Only thing I dislike is the cool side piping sits on the hot radiator hose how. :(

Bar far cleanest of all FI setups thus far.

More pics and driving impression. World has NOT ended yet. lol.

This a simple complaiment to a person building a car with new product. If you feel there is something better or you are a fanboy please go $#%* yourself and post your rub off material in the appriopate post not here.

I AM NOT STARTING A DISCUSSION ON WHOSE **** IS BIGGER, WHAT FI SYSTEM IS BETTER, OR THAT THIS IS THE BEST THING SINCE THE BLOW JOB. JUST A SIMPLE COMPLIMENT TO A FELLOW BUILDER AND FOLLOWING THE BUILD FOR UPDATES. IF YOU KNOW BETTER ABOUT EVERYTHING PLEASE MAKE YOUR SECOND COMING AND DAMN ALL US IGNORANT FOKE THAT JUST DO THIS FOR ALIVING AND DO NOT KNOW SHIT. I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU HAVE READ ALL FORUMS/INTERNET AND PROVED EVERYONE ELSE WRONG AND ARE ALWAYS RIGHT.

LET THIS BUILDER POST WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND LEAVE YOUR BS ABOUT ROOTS/TS VS THE WORLD FOR A DEBATE ELSE WHERE NOT HERE!!!

KEEP UP THE BUILD SKATERY1989 AND POST MORE ON IT DESPITE THE IGNORANCE OF PEOPLE NOT JUST ENJOYING A BUILD.

I wouldn't say the cleanest, but still rather nice looking. I agree with disliking the tight fit around the radiator hose. They spent so much time on that pipe, why not make it fit better? :iono: Also the mouth of the intake chamber doesn't seem to fit up against the snorkel very snug...

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There still a bracket to go on there to push it forward. The pipe are a very tight fight I really don't see any other way they could have done it.

Great job man! Definitely in for your overall impressions of the kit itself and the performance! Not excited about that radiator hose contact either. If I were to buy this kit I would work on that area by replacing the radiator hose with one that hard turned downward. Had to do that on my DC5. Cant' wait to see more and videos!!!

Looking good. Interested to see numbers.

cleanest?!
this is clean:
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...38676180_n.jpg
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphoto...91497695_n.jpg

There's about 3/4 inch gap between the hoses il get a picture to show you guys.

1) Are you really using the heat soak issue? I mean... it's 5-7 psi. Heavy? LOL. The extra 20 lbs will surely :rolleyes: be noticeable. More power is debatable. If you're the type that only looks at peak power numbers, maybe. If you consider the area of power under the entire torque curve, it will lead you to a different story.

2) Sounds like you've had a bad experience with AVO. You'd be the first one I've seen. Hate to say it, but they've been the most transparent vender/manufacturer through this development process (not that that says much). Sounds like you picked the wrong sized turbo kit for your build from them. I can't imagine building 5 psi of boost is going lag very much LOL.

3). Wingnuts holding down a flap to cover the filter looks better than the stock airbox? Plus it also doesn't appear to fit the snorkel very snug... I guess it's all a matter of opinion.

I'm all for supporting this kit because you like it. That's great. But don't down other kits unless you're gonna bring applicable, factual reasons. People crying over heatsoak on 5-7 psi from a roots blower is really stretching the argument. LOL

Does the kit comes with an ecu flash? How much whp are u expecting?

You are confusing roots with twin screw technology. You might want to do some reading on the subject and compare it to centrifugal superchargers, if nothing else than to broaden your knowledge on the subject. Two resourcs, albeit the company in the first link are interested in promoting their product: http://www.whipplesuperchargers.com/....asp?PageID=77
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/supercharger3.htm


Both the Innovate twin screw and the Vortech make for clean setups, and competition is good for all of us.

All of this is covered in Perrin's Vortech build thread. A base Ecutek tune is included, and whp should be around the 230-250 whp range around 5.5-6.5 psi.

Well said

Let's get some good pics and a dyno!

I agree the AVO kit is clean.... but you have to show the underside of the car too, for the whole story!

right and I cant get happy about how close things are to the Bell housing. A few more weeks and I hope to be driving it..

threadjack:
WEEKS?! What are they doing, building you a whole new car? It's just a supercharger, its not rocket science.
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OP:
I think it looks great. Not what I'm looking for in terms of performance, but a great looking piece of kit. How do you like it?

Supercharge or turbo, both will make this car rock. honestly i'm split completely down the middle about AVO or Perrin. this was posted a while back in perrins thread but just to remind everyone:
http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/.../lionzebra.jpg
cant we all get along?

back on topic: super stoked to hear your experience w/ your new kit! this is an exciting time for our cars as people are actually starting to get their hands on FI

Surely, cleaned.

Can't wait to start seeing third party dynos!

Flickr or photobucket would be your best options. Cant wait for a video! If you dont mind me asking will rewiring the maf be a requirement for this kit?

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i was going to look in to photobucket. Ya the MAF sensor moves down onto the intercooler piping. Need about a foot and a half of wire vortech sent me wire from the first kit they designed but they moved it far there down so shorted me. Its fairly east to wire back up.

Haha I bet it is, ill be coming from a european, so I'm always very skeptical when it comes to wiring.

Photobucket would be better than flickr for regular pics because theres not as low of a cap. I have a flickr for photographs that I want to show off in the highest quality possible.

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O ya hate European cars. Will post more tomorrow about the install and driving experience. But for now I can say its worth the money if you have it.

Where did all the trolls come from?

-Acree

Congrats Man! This is great news to finally see a kit go on a car! Definitly some dyno numbers would be sweet!

More pics plus dyno.:w00t:

Hurry up and get those dyno's up so we can compare :)