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Pretty sure I'd be sleeping outside if I did much past 3000 RPM's with the significant other in the car
Luckily for me, my significant other is used to the autobahn, so I guess a 125mph blast is a walk in the park.
True story: the reason I bought a Vette was that, back in 2008, we took a trip to Florida to watch the Gatornationals, and I rented a new A6 LS3 Vette. On the first night we were there, during the wee hours, we were cruising along on an undisclosed road at about 55, when some guy in a very loud C5 pulls up next to us. The road up ahead was open, so he geared down and gunned it, and off we went. When I backed off at 155 or so, I had a full length on him. I couldn't believe how hard that bone stock Vette pulled. That was when I decided I had to buy myself a LS3 Vette.
I'll never forget when I was in Germany and thought I was going pretty good, 120mph or so down the autobahn.. I looked in my rear view mirror, nobody was there, moved over to right lane, looked at my rear view mirror again and I just barely saw some dude in a Ferrari blow past me like I was standing still. He had to of been going 180mph. They don't joke around with lanes over there.. you stay on the right if you aren't passing someone or you get ran over. That's something some people over here could take some lessons from..
That's something some people over here could take some lessons from..
Jeeze, a slow poke in the left lane torques my wrench something fierce. There ought to be a law....oh, wait, there is one. It's a closely guarded secret in Texas though
Indeed... same here. In the northeast I at least see signs saying to get the heck over to the right if you aren't passing people.. in the south, not so much
I was one of those guys staying over towards the right today on the way to work. Felt unnatural. Going to be a sloooooooow week I guess. I didn't realize how hard it would be to keep my foot out of it, just really want to rock. On the positive side, the car was solid all the way into work. About the most I did was 2lbs of boost.
Got it dyno tuned today, thanks to Josh at D3 Performance Engineering for the excellent jo and getting me in the same day I called! Had a small issue that turned out to be the Chevy dealer did not give me a ZR1 MAP as I requested. Everytime he put the parameters in for that MAP, issues arose, when stock MAP parameters went in, it worked out. Anyway, to me (and I know this is a relative thing) the car is a beast. I was able to do a little experimenting with it, but cops were all over the Beltway, so had to really watch it. Got 550 on a Dynocom AWD loaded dyno. The torque curve is crazy.....
Nice!!!
Way to go Woodstoc!
Look how the power curve on that old PD blower falls off on the top too!
Feels good, don't it?!
How much boost are you making?
And what's your injector duty cycle like? Must be real close to 100%?
I haven't had a chance to really put my foot in it. There was a conspiracy afoot between traffic and constables on the way home from the shop..lol. I saw about 7 of them along the beltway. Josh did tell me my injectors were the limiting factor right now, they are maxed for the pulley. Running 96% I believe. He said no more mods until I do something about them.
This is going to be so great, I liked the car before, now I love it. . Best of all, it looks totally bone stock on the outside, and if I close the cutoffs, sounds that way too until you get on it.
I haven't had a chance to really put my foot in it. There was a conspiracy afoot between traffic and constables on the way home from the shop..lol. I saw about 7 of them along the beltway. Josh did tell me my injectors were the limiting factor right now, they are maxed for the pulley. Running 96% I believe. He said no more mods until I do something about them.
This is going to be so great, I liked the car before, now I love it. . Best of all, it looks totally bone stock on the outside, and if I close the cutoffs, sounds that way too until you get on it.
Way to go. That's were it should be with that pulley. Back when, Rodney told me that a smaller pulley is usually worth about 10 horse's and 1 pound of boost. I was at 559, with the 84mm. Good job and let your knuckles heal. I know Sammy, Let Rodney and Andy fight it out who is always right.
So, have another question for the smart folks on here. Purchased what was supposed to be a ZR1 sensor from our good folks at my local Chevy dealer. Being the dummy that I was (I'm getting better with this boosted stuff due to you guys), I did not realize that they apparently gave me a MAP for a stock NA car. I swapped it in there, and went for the dyno tune.
Josh put in the numbers for the ZR1 since it's a 3 bar instead of a 1 bar sensor, and troubles galore since the numbers for linear and offset are different. He tells me I either have a bad sensor, or the wrong one. We check, and sure enough, the numbers are not for a ZR1. He puts in the right linear and offset, and there you go, the car runs right.He told me if I go and get the right sensor, and bring the car back, he'll find some time to change over the standards in HP tuner, and check real quick on fuel trims at no charge.
So here is the question: Is there any advantage to going to the 3 bar ZR1 Map vs the stock 1 bar with the exception of seeing the correct boost level? The tuning should stay about the same. I haven't had a chance to put the car into wot yet due to cops, traffic, and now rain today so I'm not sure what dashlogic is going to show.
So, have another question for the smart folks on here. Purchased what was supposed to be a ZR1 sensor from our good folks at my local Chevy dealer. Being the dummy that I was (I'm getting better with this boosted stuff due to you guys), I did not realize that they apparently gave me a MAP for a stock NA car. I swapped it in there, and went for the dyno tune.
Josh put in the numbers for the ZR1 since it's a 3 bar instead of a 1 bar sensor, and troubles galore since the numbers for linear and offset are different. He tells me I either have a bad sensor, or the wrong one. We check, and sure enough, the numbers are not for a ZR1. He puts in the right linear and offset, and there you go, the car runs right.He told me if I go and get the right sensor, and bring the car back, he'll find some time to change over the standards in HP tuner, and check real quick on fuel trims at no charge.
So here is the question: Is there any advantage to going to the 3 bar ZR1 Map vs the stock 1 bar with the exception of seeing the correct boost level? The tuning should stay about the same. I haven't had a chance to put the car into wot yet due to cops, traffic, and now rain today so I'm not sure what dashlogic is going to show.
I would just go exchange it for the proper sensor. Takes a minute to change it out and its always good to see the boost you are making. If it changes dramatically it can alert you that something isn't right.
Dash logic won't be able to show boost without a 2 or 3 bar MAP sensor, but not a huge deal
The only other thing I can think of is injector flow rate changes with MAP, so it not knowing you're in boost can affect that some. Whether it will make a big deal or not, I have no idea.
And it's literally 2 values to change, so I'd just swap it out with a proper one. Can't hurt and at least you have a boost gauge via dash logic then
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. Best of all, it looks totally bone stock on the outside, and if I close the cutoffs, sounds that way too until you get on it.
