the wide band bung is just so he could mount the sensor for his gauge.

Mudflap, hows throttle response?

 

Nice looking install. I have been thinking about the paxton for awhile now, which is virtually the same as the vortech.

How is the bottom end power? What rpm does the boost start?

 

looks good

 

not a stupid question Eagle, but that is correct.

mudflap's S/C directs air straight into the motor, whereas mine is directed into the intercooler and then into the motor..

Mudflap's


Mine

 

I'm familiar with the concept just not with the particular set up. Thanks for clearing that up, I keep putting this off but your not helping showing me good looking pictures like that

 

not a problem Eagle.

yeah, hanging out on here can be very costly..literally..LOL!!

 

Mudflap the vortech looks swweeeettttt. I have the same kit for 3 years and love it. Nice and enjoy

 

5SPD, throttle response is good. Around town it feels about the same as the car did with just a CAI and Brenspeed/Bama tune. In first gear from a stop, you get a good amount of power immediately and if you stab the gas hard, you get tire spin by about 3500RPM. The power builds gradually but fairly fast. Some of the twin screw guys had me worried that the boost takes forever to build on a centri, but I haven't seen it. It definitely is progressive, but the car FEELS fast in general. I mean, if I'm going slow in 2nd gear and it floor it, the car moves much like a stock/CAI'd car would, but of course the boost starts building fairly quickly as you go. I am more comfortable with the centri setup than a twin screw personally.

munger, the wideband bung weld is a hole that had to be welded into the exhaust pipe to install my wideband gauge. I did the gauge installs myself, but I don't have the tools to do any welding, so I had the shop weld in the bung and hook up my sensor for me.

You can run the kit with no gauges. I personally wouldn't do that, but many do including 05 who hasn't had any problems. Most of the time the gauges read the same, however if something were to go wrong, I'd like to know about it hopefully before I blow a motor. I view the gauges as cheap insurance. As to whether you can install the kit, go to Vortech's website and you can download a PDF of the install instructions. I probably could have done it over a couple of weekends taking my time, but I'd rather have a professional shop do it. If you do go with no gauges and install yourself, I would HIGHLY recommend paying $50-100 to have a local shop do a couple of dyno pulls with Air/Fuel ratio. That way you'll know how much power you're making, and also that the car/tune is running properly at least initially. The one thing you should probably consider is that if you can barely afford to supercharge the car, will you be able to fix it if you blow it up? I am using my tax return to fund the whole thing. Thanks for giving me some of my money back, Uncle Sam! lol

 

I was thinking this was a "Safe" amount of boost to add and not going to blow the motor. As far as having it dynoed after install, I live in Vermont and don't now of any shop to bring it to. Was hoping the canned tune supplied would be safe to run out of the box. Buy the supercharger, install, install tune drive away. Asking for to much?

 

I'm sure that if you get a canned tune from a reputable shop (ie:Brenspeed, Bamachips, etc..) you'll be just fine. Unfortunately, as you probably already know, you just won't be getting the most out of your supercharger/car until you can dial it in with a dyno tune.