Pulled the trigger..(ECS)
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St. Jude Donor '13
Alright Update #2
The headunit is on. The coolant hose, and wireharness that sit under/next to the head unit and radiator are tight and make me a little uneasy. but it seems the same compared to pictures online. Belt is on. Having a hard time adjusting the the 24mm bolt to make sure the tensioner is lined up correctly. Attacking that momentarily. Doing the BAP and Racetronix harness right now.
Im ready to just be done installing this kit and drive it. Trying to be patient with everything. My tuning appointment is thursday, and i can only really work on it from 730-1030 every night. Should make it, but its getting close...
Next time, I'll pay the speed shop to do it. The two of us doing this install both are mechanically inclined, but id rather a shop that has installed tons of these do it.
The headunit is on. The coolant hose, and wireharness that sit under/next to the head unit and radiator are tight and make me a little uneasy. but it seems the same compared to pictures online. Belt is on. Having a hard time adjusting the the 24mm bolt to make sure the tensioner is lined up correctly. Attacking that momentarily. Doing the BAP and Racetronix harness right now.
Im ready to just be done installing this kit and drive it. Trying to be patient with everything. My tuning appointment is thursday, and i can only really work on it from 730-1030 every night. Should make it, but its getting close...
Next time, I'll pay the speed shop to do it. The two of us doing this install both are mechanically inclined, but id rather a shop that has installed tons of these do it.
Melting Slicks
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Despite all the glowing reviews you hear on this forum, the popular C6 centri blower kits tend to have some fitment issues or compromises.
Most owners don't do their own installs, so it's transparent to them. That's just my opinion after installing mine. As a guy who's a little OCD about fit and finish, my kit bothered me in a number of ways.
Most owners don't do their own installs, so it's transparent to them. That's just my opinion after installing mine. As a guy who's a little OCD about fit and finish, my kit bothered me in a number of ways.
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Despite all the glowing reviews you hear on this forum, the popular C6 centri blower kits tend to have some fitment issues or compromises.
Most owners don't do their own installs, so it's transparent to them. That's just my opinion after installing mine. As a guy who's a little OCD about fit and finish, my kit bothered me in a number of ways.
Most owners don't do their own installs, so it's transparent to them. That's just my opinion after installing mine. As a guy who's a little OCD about fit and finish, my kit bothered me in a number of ways.
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St. Jude Donor '15
Despite all the glowing reviews you hear on this forum, the popular C6 centri blower kits tend to have some fitment issues or compromises.
Most owners don't do their own installs, so it's transparent to them. That's just my opinion after installing mine. As a guy who's a little OCD about fit and finish, my kit bothered me in a number of ways.
Most owners don't do their own installs, so it's transparent to them. That's just my opinion after installing mine. As a guy who's a little OCD about fit and finish, my kit bothered me in a number of ways.
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Melting Slicks
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Except now I'm a regional sales manager for a machine tool company. Better hours. Better opportunity. Anywho.
Install is all done. Fired up no leaks. test driving it tomorrow night and tuning this week while I'm in Texas for work. Very excited to see what the numbers end up being and picking her up Friday!
Anyone in Dallas wanna pick me up and take me for a ride this week?!
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Well.. Its all done! Tuning results are not exactly what I was hoping for but she definitely scoots on the road. 559/486 on a DynoJet.
Thats a 2010 Grand Sport. 6spd. SLP catted longtube headers. and ECS1500 Kit.
Thats a 2010 Grand Sport. 6spd. SLP catted longtube headers. and ECS1500 Kit.
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St. Jude Donor '15
Meth or no?
Without meth that actually isn't bad. You get to a point where you really need more octane or knock is inevitable. The SC setup is fully capable of going well over 600 with meth so don't worry too much about the numbers
Without meth that actually isn't bad. You get to a point where you really need more octane or knock is inevitable. The SC setup is fully capable of going well over 600 with meth so don't worry too much about the numbers
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no meth. Car feels great, except theres a lot of surging in first and second when slowly accelerating. Theres also slight surge feelings when trying to cruise. You can feel it in the engine.
AND the check engine light came on with a bunch of codes today. All catalyst codes and one evap. So im assuming they forgot to delete the rear O2s that I dont have haha. Driving back up there in the morning.
I have a zr1 map sensor but they still tuned it via MAF... Is there any real difference or gains to be had on tuning MAF vs Speed Density?
AND the check engine light came on with a bunch of codes today. All catalyst codes and one evap. So im assuming they forgot to delete the rear O2s that I dont have haha. Driving back up there in the morning.
I have a zr1 map sensor but they still tuned it via MAF... Is there any real difference or gains to be had on tuning MAF vs Speed Density?
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St. Jude Donor '15
On mine it's way smoother in SD.
There should not be any surging on a stock cam'd car. Mine wasn't super smooth when I was trying to use the MAF.. adding a honeycomb prior to the MAF helped a good bit. When I looked at the logs you could see the MAF readings bouncing around, presumably from turbulence caused by the supercharger. The "surging" for lack of a better word matched up to these oscillations.
I really think you'll have better luck going SD. It's easier/faster to tune a MAF table or two so I'm sure that's why they just did that instead. The VE table needed for SD is a whole lot bigger.
Yeah if you don't have evap/rear O2's then that's easy enough to get rid of..
There should not be any surging on a stock cam'd car. Mine wasn't super smooth when I was trying to use the MAF.. adding a honeycomb prior to the MAF helped a good bit. When I looked at the logs you could see the MAF readings bouncing around, presumably from turbulence caused by the supercharger. The "surging" for lack of a better word matched up to these oscillations.
I really think you'll have better luck going SD. It's easier/faster to tune a MAF table or two so I'm sure that's why they just did that instead. The VE table needed for SD is a whole lot bigger.
Yeah if you don't have evap/rear O2's then that's easy enough to get rid of..