Price for a vortech
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From: Rochester Hills Mich
Price for a vortech
I think that I may be selling my Vortech. It was on the car for 3 months and about 1k miles. What is it worth? I know what I paid for it and Im sure I wont be getting that back. :nopity
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From: Rochester Hills Mich
Re: Price for a vortech (StealDads67)
Because it took half the summer to install it then I had nothing but problems. It put a sense of being unreliable to me. Over heating blown head gasket the list is endless. Just dont want it Im going back to stock except for heads and a hot cam. Last summer I only had it to put maybe 1000 miles on it. I want to drive my car not look at it sitting in the driveway or a shop. :rant:
Drifting
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From: La Fontaine Indiana
Re: Price for a vortech (95Purple)
A car with a blower properly installed and tuned is reliable.
If you blew a head gasket it was from detonation and you were luck most break the ring lands. You can tell people not to run 10-1 C\R and 10 lbs boost but they just won't listen thats not what they want to hear so you live and learn but it gets expensive. Improper timming poor fuel lean A\F ratio all can be causes for detonation plus too high compression too much boost for the C\R but when you get it tuned right you will not have problems so blaming the blower for your problems is putting the blam in the wrong place.
If you blew a head gasket it was from detonation and you were luck most break the ring lands. You can tell people not to run 10-1 C\R and 10 lbs boost but they just won't listen thats not what they want to hear so you live and learn but it gets expensive. Improper timming poor fuel lean A\F ratio all can be causes for detonation plus too high compression too much boost for the C\R but when you get it tuned right you will not have problems so blaming the blower for your problems is putting the blam in the wrong place.
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2002
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From: Arvada CO
Re: Price for a vortech (black bart)
A car with a blower properly installed and tuned is reliable.
If you blew a head gasket it was from detonation and you were luck most break the ring lands. You can tell people not to run 10-1 C\R and 10 lbs boost but they just won't listen thats not what they want to hear so you live and learn but it gets expensive. Improper timming poor fuel lean A\F ratio all can be causes for detonation plus too high compression too much boost for the C\R but when you get it tuned right you will not have problems so blaming the blower for your problems is putting the blam in the wrong place.
If you blew a head gasket it was from detonation and you were luck most break the ring lands. You can tell people not to run 10-1 C\R and 10 lbs boost but they just won't listen thats not what they want to hear so you live and learn but it gets expensive. Improper timming poor fuel lean A\F ratio all can be causes for detonation plus too high compression too much boost for the C\R but when you get it tuned right you will not have problems so blaming the blower for your problems is putting the blam in the wrong place.
:iagree:
i would look at it like this....you already have the blower....get it tuned right and lower the boost and have some fun with it? but that is my 2 penny's. :steering:
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From: Rochester Hills Mich
Re: Price for a vortech (vvv90)
If I was to lower the boost anymore there would be no point to have it. I’m at around 5 to 6 psi now. The compression is around 9.5 to 1. It was tuned fine very conservative and it didn’t detonate. :banghead:
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From: Dallas, TX
Re: Price for a vortech (95Purple)
With 5 psi and 9.5:1 there is no way the car should blow gaskets if tuned right. Have you run it in on a dyno with wide band O2 and data logging the knock sensors? It would take way less time to tune the car than to pull the S/C off. My '95 LT4 runs over 11 psi on the street reliably for over 20,000 miles now. The key is tuning. Otherwise you are just shooting in the dark. The times I blew head gaskets were when I got a bit too agressive with timing or leaning it out. WIth it conservativley tuned, I rune about 500 rwhp and run cool.