i havent up graded the mafs as yet they have not maxed out yet i will put on the 2.80 pulley and see how it goes my car made about 408 rwhp with the cat back system and the stock pulley

i would love to see how your heat exchanger works out im very interested

2 years of abuse will do that

that was the problem i had they alot of people said if i did not floor it as much in 5-6-7th gear that was the nail in the coffin i also didnt know how to increase the line pressure with my up rev tune

Yea you will max them out tho with the pulley upgrade, There is a guy here (In New York) who max'd his out, He also has been helping me a lot. I would up doing the pullies, and upgraded the SC from the SCI to SI. So I'm going to see around 12-13 PSI,Upgraded my plugs and injectors also. The heat exchanged is huge 27x6x3.5 will sit in the front , Basically a front-mount :)


408rwho is right on the money too I made 412 WHP. with the 8PSI pulley, Al tho I see 9 :).

Now we know why? So to hear that man, Your turner should have done that for you, I can even imagin how you drove the car with out the line pressue adjusted.
Is the dealer covering you Tranny? Or did I miss something. BTW your car look SUPER NICE

Wow two years with no TQ managment. That is great news actually, im sorry your tranny is gone though. This is great info!

No probs yet. Car was tuned and line pressure uped. I think lol. Any time you add double hoursepower to a na car expect problems. I know.how to drive a car to last. Its years of experience. Lmao

sent from my SAMSUNG- SINGLE TURBO SGH-1717

Yea Just get a Z! then you'll really feel at home. glad your over here man!

I would spend 5k again the way i have been driving my car but hope its not any time soon or i will need a second job

Thanks i love the wheels on your car btw is squeez helping you out as well? he is very helpfull. my tranny is not covered the main problem i have with it if you are half way on the throttle from 3rd to 4th it feels like a bomb has gone off in the tranny and from 4th to 5th it slips like a clutch and you have to wait a few seconds before you can accelerate and if you leave it in 5th gear for to long the car goes into limp mode and i have to pull over turn the car off then on. i dont think i can change the heat exchanger as i have limited amount of space but if it works well with you let me know. how would you know if you need a maf upgrade? and have you put a b.o.v on yet?

Yeah I am helping him out as well.

You would know if your Maf's are maxed out by looking at data log using uprev maf volts.

Thanx for the love on the wheels, Only G with them( BMW/german cars run them),
Man I'm really sorry the about the tranny issues and warrenty not covering it, The GTM kit is the STG 3 or 4 or did you just buy imternals and building yourself? You still will need to up the TQ tables VIA UPREV either way. You can change the heat exchanger once mine is done( At the dealer get everything done) I will have updated pics and info- I know its not going to just "FIT" but my tech will have to move things around, We have the same things upfront, Oil and Trans coolers, ETC.. The BOV Squezze turned me on to and nothing is installed yet Still waiting the SC to come back from Vortech( Rebulid under Warrenty-and up graded to the SI). I have a thread on here also with everything in it, Check it out.

BTW YES Mr.Squezze has been a huge help pretty much gave me all the part numbers and has been helping me along the way since he was down this road some what. He max'd his MAF's out at 465 WHP so I bought upgraded ones them decided to also have S&R build me a custom intake anyway( The Stillen one is SMALL) GTM uses a 3 inch for theirs, I upped mine to 2.75, So we'll see.

Wow you should be getting some good numbers with all of your upgradesi will be happy if i get around 440 whp since i have another weekend cruiser with 500 whp and weighing 2800 pounds.
i should be happy with the 2.75 in the car and get the timing right for some down low power. how much is the custom intake costing if you dont mind me asking and is this for more power in the top end?

Thanks for that i will have my tuner check it out next time we are on the dyno after i install the b.o.v and pulley

oh with the tranny rebuild it is a rebuild that Sam put together that has the frictions,steels,pistons and seals there is no drums because i dont think they are damaged

Curious what level hp/tq is the tranny issue more likely? I will be going FI after the warranty is up but nothing crazy, just enough so that when some dink in a Camaro SS messes with me I don't have to tuck tail... I'd have uprev of course, so with say low 400's HP and increasing line pressure via uprev do you guys think I'll see much issue?

Here's a video of our built 7A/T in a 550whp car we just finished up:

For now I'm dreaming, but one day soon !!!!! Nice thread..:excited:

I need to start saving now. mmmmm supercharger...

sounded like some compressor surge going on...

Yes it did?? The tranny didnt shift that well to me either, REV limiter FTW-Cant be good is its gonna hit that all the time, and there we so bobbles in the shifts between 5-7k? What where those,, Right after the second stop and go,,

since my last post i have had the rebuild on the auto car in manuel mode is great except for going into 3rd it shifts to hard this was about 2 months ago the guy who did the install said the valve body was the one of the main causes of burning out the auto (as well as driving the car a little hard and in the higher gears) so i have bitten the bullit and purchased a new valve body with the up grade from GTM i just had it installed and pick it up in 2 days and leave some feed back on the total rebuild and the valve body up grade

So I'm interested to know how the GTM valve body upgrade went and how it is now? I went FI with the Stillen kit and have the 7AT and I'm getting some really funky shifting and the tuner Dai he can't do any more adjustments with it. I have heard about the GTM valve body upgrade being problematic, have you had any issues ?

i just got the car back will get it re tuned and line pressure increased. what have you heard about the gtm valve body??

Tuner said he had heard some issues with the GTM valve body and its shifting afterwards, so want to find out from someone that actually has one installed.

Who's the tuner you are referring To ?

Typical drama. I heard theory.:facepalm: Facts man, facts.

Ive got the fully built GTM 7 AT. stage 4 . It shifts great. firm and quick.

Z

No typical drama here pal, just was stating that I had heard issues with the "valve body upgrade", not the full trans. And that's what was told to me and I was asking for folks that had put the GTM valve body upgrade in, not that I was saying it was fact that it was bad..lol Hence the reason I was "asking" and not "stating" that as a factoid, my original post was a "question". So please refrain from "creating" that drama with such a post..;)

Good to know Z eliminator, I am referring to just the VBU and not the whole trans, but good to know the built trans are good, ai was looking at those but not pushing enough for the whole trans though was checking out the VBU

Just asking for "user" experience from those that have applied the GTM VBU as I would like to hear from actual people that have applied it, reason for my post., I don't take anything on the "I heard" scenario which is why I ask at all.

Funny cause I was told the smae thing about it, I was actually told to stay away from it, But everone has their veiws on it .

OP hows this working out?

^see..not the only one..:)

I'm glad you are asking this question and I have no problem with it whatsoever. After all, this is the whole purpose of the technical forum. On that note, it will be useful to us and to all members to share the concerns you heard about. This way, we can address them. It just does not make sense to bring up such a point and not follow through with more details.

So let me simplify my question so we can be on the same page. Please share the concern to qualify that the valve body upgrade we offer is problematic.

The reason why I'm prying on this is because I think you owe it to the forum members on here to let them know what you know.

Sam

One can pretty much say for any product out there that they had heard that someone else heard that there was a problem with said product. It just seems like trolling unless since it does nothing for anyone.

I couldn't agree with you more, but I was just trying to give 3zworld the benefit of the doubt and I didn't really question AMNVQ since he doesn't have any credibility here and just makes stuff up as he goes.

Sam

Lol nicely worded! You would make for a great politician!

Lookin forward to the response, most likely we won't get one.
His question was ok until he sneaked in that "I heard from tuner". Perfect set-up for failure.

ANMVQ, out of curiousity was he the same guy that told u to go with the Stillen kit? We all know how that turned out lol! That was easy I had to lol!

So, instead of actually letting some folks that have the VBU answer you guys do nothing but state that some may be trolling, whatever the f$& that is. I asked a question, plain and simple and if you don't know then please let others post their experience with it. I would like to know before dumping the cost of such and not "finding out the hard way". Nismo2011, enough with your accusations, they are not warranted or asked for, and since you obviously don't have the GTM VBU either then please digress, as your just being a forum bully.

Sam@GTM: I'm not saying it is bad, when a well known shop tells me that they have heard some bad things about it I said ok. I will indeed ask the tuner the details of such as he didn't go into very much at the time (time is $$) with these guys, but will push him for more and post, that much does need to be added I agree, sorry I didn't have that to contribute beforehand but thought I would see if anyone had heard of such.

I don't have time to act childish or go about talking about this like kindergarten, trying to get real answers is all, didn't know this forum had become a place for forum bully's to troll (not you Sam)

And about the Stillen Kit, I'm getting a happy 445 whp without the Motorsport impeller and pulley upgrade, so it's doing nicely thank you.

Lol, still not coming out with it eh? Jus another lame vague post to still not say tuner but u wanna add that it's a well known shop?? You speak of growing up when you have a lot to do. ANMVQ has NO experience with the VBU, so why didnt u say anything towards him? Is it cuz his troll post favors ur troll response. You should research. Lot of people have it, and some of them have already answered here in this thread and said YES it works, not some vague answer like you.

You'd make a great politician as well. You want a direct answer with someone but can't seem to give one when called out on "this made up shop". Lol good luck, I'm sure the response you get will be exactly what u give others.