[kiichiro]

this is my experience, just some dude who owned, tracked and misses his vortech BRZs
vortech is great to work with, and does a pretty fast turn around in my experience

the v3 can cook its small amount of fluid IF run with a smaller pulley or IF run hard enough in hot enough weather at the track long enough-it doesnt like to see temps past 250F, its a street application really, perfect for ax, perfect for street, not enough for serious track

this v2 has a bigger bearing, runs cooler, and as such temps are a non issue with the v2 as far as heat goes on race circuits, run it at 265 all day, no issue, tho going beyond the 3.125 pulley results in shorter belt and seal life on track esp with aftermarket headers(oe has a header heat shield and it is the combo of high torque on the belt and high underhood temps that cause early demise of the rubbers imho) and does run your oil hotter but if youre setup right for oil coolers and rads you wouldnt have a issue, atleast i didnt running the robispec rad/oil setup which rocked

going to 2.87 is asking for trouble but can be done, as tested the thing is solid, its not like anything fails, just go thru belts and seals more often as expected

it should be noted my v2 came with a tamper seal, ie removing the oe pulley voids any warranty

now why is that? cause you can go relentlessly at the v2 with the oe pulley and thats the safest setup for the sc

I have upwards of 20-30 track days on a warranty voided unit that saw a few seals and then I finally sold it for a NA car, and admit I miss boost but enjoy the lower overall OE performance of my current car; but obviously I miss my BRZ(s) or I wouldnt still be lurking here!

bottom line if you wanna track it HARD get the v2 and vent it well, the v3 is hard to beat up off the race track

I ran the 3.33 unwastegated at the track at 1500 feet without issue on my cars
I would not advise running anything smaller without a properly wastegated setup, but I'm *just* some dude, so really listen to your tuner