Congiiee's Vortech Supercharger INSTALLED!!! Visconti Tuned

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by M1K3

I love using Step Drill bits

I got one for my AVO install and it was awesome.

[Huehuecoyotl]

I like the Borsch Titanium bits alot myself

Scored myself a Hilti, now thats a drill

[Brian@Vortech]

Originally Posted by reyruiz191

Any advice on drilling for the intercooler brackets? It seems like no matter what i'm trying the drill just wont go through the metal. For now im stuck on my install.

The bumper beam is made of high-strength steel. Suggest using a bit of cutting oil and a good, sharp drill. A lower power or dull drill/bit may not be able to do it.

[OICU812]

I'm telling ya, if there was any hope Toyota would not void warranty on such an addition to the car, I would be ordering today, actually within minutes! Sounds that the Vortech is a safe and nice balance HP upgrade for sure. Really looks the part anyhow from reviews.

[charged86]

Originally Posted by OICU812

I'm telling ya, if there was any hope Toyota would not void warranty on such an addition to the car, I would be ordering today, actually within minutes! Sounds that the Vortech is a safe and nice balance HP upgrade for sure. Really looks the part anyhow from reviews.

I bet you a "cool" dealership wouldnt care unless you had a CEL.

[Sonolin]

Yea, check with your dealer. Mine said all factory parts would be covered even with mods, assuming the install is good. Dealer seemed to like it when I mentioned Vortech as well.

[congiiee]

Originally Posted by reyruiz191

Any advice on drilling for the intercooler brackets? It seems like no matter what i'm trying the drill just wont go through the metal. For now im stuck on my install.

Hey sorry for the late reply. If you didn't already find a way to drill through the metal this is what I did. I got out my drill set. Found the thinnest drill bit all the way to the size that I needed (I think 3/16) then I started with the smallest bit and worked my way up. Since the smallest bit requires less metal to be drilled its a lot easier. Just slowly work your way up and you should get it. Make sure you mark your bracket drill holes accurately or the screws will be difficult to screw in.

Second method would be find a really awesome drill with a diamond drill bit set.... lol

[congiiee]

Here is a 0-60 video I did. Note I am not very good at quick shifting and did not in any way aggressively launched the car. I am also running stock tires. In this video my time was 6.3 seconds for 0-60. I remember when I was stock running Visconti's pump fuel it was about 7.6ish maybe close to 8 seconds. Yeah I'm still learning and at the same time babying my precious sapphire

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a4h0hil22l...%20Project.mov

[congiiee]

BTW if you neglect the poor shifting you can definitely tell that once I gain traction the car picks up revs much faster then stock or even E85. I will do another video showing a 3rd gear pull from 2k - 7k rpm. Since there is no shifting involved I can't really fuck up haha

[jflogerzi]

Originally Posted by Sonolin

Yea, check with your dealer. Mine said all factory parts would be covered even with mods, assuming the install is good. Dealer seemed to like it when I mentioned Vortech as well.

what dealer was this?

[Sonolin]

Originally Posted by jflogerzi

what dealer was this?

Toyota of Temecula, CA!

[reyruiz191]

Originally Posted by congiiee

Hey sorry for the late reply. If you didn't already find a way to drill through the metal this is what I did. I got out my drill set. Found the thinnest drill bit all the way to the size that I needed (I think 3/16) then I started with the smallest bit and worked my way up. Since the smallest bit requires less metal to be drilled its a lot easier. Just slowly work your way up and you should get it. Make sure you mark your bracket drill holes accurately or the screws will be difficult to screw in.

Second method would be find a really awesome drill with a diamond drill bit set.... lol

No worries on the late reply, I was eventually able to get it after going to home depot and picking up a couple of cobalt drill bits which did the trick. Finished my install on wednesday night but encountered a problem while uploading the tune so the ecu got locked up but finally got that all taken care of and now the car is up and running as of earlier today.

[King Tut]

Originally Posted by reyruiz191

Finished my install on wednesday night but encountered a problem while uploading the tune so the ecu got locked up but finally got that all taken care of and now the car is up and running as of earlier today.

Any more details? I am glad to hear I am not the only one that has had issues uploading tunes.

[reyruiz191]

Originally Posted by King Tut

Any more details? I am glad to hear I am not the only one that has had issues uploading tunes.

This was the second time it's happened to me, one before when I was uploading a new tune while I was NA. This time around though the upload failed and it gave me an error then my computer restart. I'm thinking it might have something to do with me running parallels on my Mac to run ecutek. Both times my tuner just updated my license and I tried the upload again and it worked with no problem. After it happened with the vortech tune I switched to fully using a windows computer to do any future uploading of tunes. As of now the car is running fine and I just sent my first datalog to perrin so hopefully the problem doesn't persist with any other maps I may receive.