Vortech Owner Thread & Setup Questions

[Sportsguy83]

Originally Posted by jflogerzi

Care to elaborate some on this topic?

One of several examples but interesting because it is specific to our cars. @nix had to spend a good amount of minutes lapping the car at cruising speeds to get all the blow by burned he accumulated inside the combustion chamber (no catch can and 5 psi AVO kit) and I believe he didn't do more than 30 minutes in the track. After several minutes lapping it to burn that blow by oil, the car was still burning it.

Remember that the PCV system of this car was not designed for FI, so it will blow by more than a system designed for FI.

[F1point4]

Originally Posted by jflogerzi

Care to elaborate some on this topic?

One car I've seen has done a long track day with no catch can. When we went to inspect his car there was oil vapour and oil collecting on the inside of the charge pipe and couplers.

I believe this was the work of blow by gas from the secondary breather tube. Made sense because I haven't tracked my car and my pipes are clean.

[Amadeus]

Originally Posted by F1point4

I am currently running one Radium catch can on the PCV System. I have a second one in my bedroom I haven't installed yet for the breather. Still trying to engineer a mounting solution.

Will you add this to your build thread with photos?

[NotSoJDM]

Originally Posted by Sportsguy83

Remember that the PCV system of this car was not designed for FI, so it will blow by more than a system designed for FI.

Can you elaborate on this? My understanding of a PCV is a relatively simple check valve. The check valve is closed at atmospheric pressure via spring/ball and is opened in high vacuum situations where the spring is compressed. So WOT NA or FI should both still be low/no vacuum situations, correct where the valve is closed?

[F1point4]

Originally Posted by Amadeus

Will you add this to your build thread with photos?

I will just for you.

[charged86]

Originally Posted by reyruiz191

How many running the kit are running a catch can? I'm currently not running one, currently getting my money together for my gauge setup then shortly after i'll be putting money towards a catch can as well as other parts for more power and suspension.

I'm going to make my own with a morroso oil breather from summitracing. Also can you please add perrin crank pulley to my mods list

[charged86]

Originally Posted by NotSoJDM

Can you elaborate on this? My understanding of a PCV is a relatively simple check valve. The check valve is closed at atmospheric pressure via spring/ball and is opened in high vacuum situations where the spring is compressed. So WOT NA or FI should both still be low/no vacuum situations, correct where the valve is closed?

Well FI adds positive crank pressure oil vapor and somtimes gas vapor. My gti with a gy3071r on 25 lbs on a dyno you could actually see the vapor gas smoking out of the filter . Kinda embarrassed to say why this is important to have a breather on a fi car. But on stock turbo cars. After a few thousand miles some vehicles you can remove the intercooler and dump a few ounces of oil out from the blow by. Also getting that hot ass vapor out of the intake stream will lower intake air temps and keeping the performance up.and lastly if you have enough crank case pressure on a FI car especially a na car to boosted if the pressure is allowed to build up it will actually start pushing oil past your valve seals and you will smoke like a coal powered train and all kinds of other bad crap will insue from having oil in the combustion chamber

[reyruiz191]

@draggin_az add you to the list!

[reyruiz191]

Originally Posted by RedAlert

Please edit my info with the following, thanks. Couple changes and additions.

Fortune Auto 500 Coilovers
Staggered 18" Rota MXR wheels
245/40 rear tires
Vortech Supercharger Kit. Updated version.
3.48 inch. pulley pushing 11ish psi
Visconti Tuned for 93 octane (2 maps)
Borla UEL Header
Perrin overpipe
Perrin catted front pipe
Borla exhaust
Mushimoto CF oil catch can
Stock clutch
Stock fuel injectors
Stock fuel pump
Defi boost gauge
OBD2 Bluetooth Adapter sending info to
Nexus 7 running Torque for gauges
Videos including 0-100 pull and 0-60

Have a dyno planned anytime soon? I'm curious to see what you would put down and see how much more power the 11psi pulley makes with your setup over the 9psi pulley.

[Foobar]

Oh hey, I guess I'm part of this list now too. Here are the mods on my car: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/dto_g...ehicle_id=1945

Will have a dyno up as soon as I can schedule some time with the dyno and Visconti.

[NorseLegend]

HueHue's was just getting interesting. If I remember correctly, he was about to run this kit on 12psi w/ a new header? Is that right? If so, anybody have any updates about that?

[reyruiz191]

Originally Posted by Foobar

Oh hey, I guess I'm part of this list now too. Here are the mods on my car: http://www.ft86club.com/forums/dto_g...ehicle_id=1945

Will have a dyno up as soon as I can schedule some time with the dyno and Visconti.

Added your current setup to the list.

Originally Posted by NorseLegend

HueHue's was just getting interesting. If I remember correctly, he was about to run this kit on 12psi w/ a new header? Is that right? If so, anybody have any updates about that?

There's still some recent updates in his thread through some current members who are still in contact with him. He dyno'd the car with his new wastegate setup and headers but the car suffered a boost leak so they couldnt get an accurate number. I believe he's scheduled for another dyno sometime soon.

[reyruiz191]

@ft86me @v1ru5 @Wonderbar you guys have been added to the list. If you have any mods you want me to update just let me know.

[415FRS]

My Vortech Stage 1 tuned by Visconti is arriving this Tuesday. Will have it install sometime next week.
Other mods i have on the car are:

TRD Exhaust Catback
Stance Super Sport coilover
Rota Grid wheels with Hancook ventus V12 tires
Cusco Front Strut Bar

more to come. Out of money now )

Edit: forgot to mentioned, my car is AT.