Great write up on Vararam
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Melting Slicks
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Great write up on Vararam
Great article on the Vararam intake and spacer in the GM High-Tech Performance magazine in the March 07 addition.
Besides the detailed install guide with every picture you could think of taking while installing it, they gave dyno and track results.
The dyno showed a little increase, but as they stated the pcm probably had not found the new system yet and a run on a dyno will not give the Vararam any ram air effect.
The drag strip was a different story. The average of 3 runs netted a 0.210 ET reduction and 3 mph increase. The ET went from 12.773 (stock intake) to 12.563. The MPH went from 112.06 to 115.06 That is significant for a bolt on mod and especially for the price!
I really don't know of a mod for the that price that would give that great of a result in performance.
Besides the detailed install guide with every picture you could think of taking while installing it, they gave dyno and track results.
The dyno showed a little increase, but as they stated the pcm probably had not found the new system yet and a run on a dyno will not give the Vararam any ram air effect.
The drag strip was a different story. The average of 3 runs netted a 0.210 ET reduction and 3 mph increase. The ET went from 12.773 (stock intake) to 12.563. The MPH went from 112.06 to 115.06 That is significant for a bolt on mod and especially for the price!
I really don't know of a mod for the that price that would give that great of a result in performance.
Last edited by BADC64GO; Feb 1, 2007 at 12:34 PM.
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Yeah I first saw that about 2 weeks ago (I even made a reference to it in a post here somewhere LOL), those are some notable performance gains for sure.
I wonder if it would show even further gains if the PCM was allowed to learn in (they say it needs a few hundred miles/a few 'start cycles' etc. to really shine) a little more.
I wonder if it would show even further gains if the PCM was allowed to learn in (they say it needs a few hundred miles/a few 'start cycles' etc. to really shine) a little more.
Thats slow service for us left coasters!!
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Melting Slicks
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http://www.gmhightechperformance.com/
Didn't see it on their site but didn't look hard for it. Great magazine and should be one for any vette owner.
Didn't see it on their site but didn't look hard for it. Great magazine and should be one for any vette owner.
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) called me to tell me about the Vararam/C6 test and the next day I just happened to be in Barnes and Noble and read a little bit there...I think it was almost a full two weeks ago. My brother also gets it but he didn't let me read it
until this past Monday/Tuesday. 
