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wstar 10-22-2011 11:22 AM

Vendor bash much? The extra clearance and adjustment room, as I already mentioned, is most likely for manufacturing tolerances, and if anything probably a safety margin so you don't hit anything if things get a little out of adjustment over time. Meaning it won't be universally available, usable, or safe. UpRev's been working hard on tuning our ECU for a long time, so it's kinda hard to claim they don't care either. If you'd like to purchase your own crate engine from Nissan for 8K to screw around and damage something and maybe figure out a trick to gain +3rwhp sometimes for some engines when the stars align, feel free :rolleyes:

6MT 10-22-2011 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by wstar (Post 1371714)
Vendor bash much?

UpRev's been working hard on tuning our ECU for a long time, so it's kinda hard to claim they don't care either.

:iagree:

theDreamer 10-22-2011 11:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 1slow370 (Post 1371518)
i don't think uprev even wants to try to care. I want to know if you jack up the vvel curve can you actually hit the pistons? does sam have an extra block and set of heads lying around somewhere where he could throw some clay on the pistons, slap the head on, time it, use a crescent wrench to turn the vvel fulcrum shaft all the way open and turn the bitch over to see if it actually can touch and determine the clearance? then advance and retard the timing all the way (maybe just do it with the chain?) and turn it over again to see if it hits. why don't we start here. because if nissan built enough clearance into the system well then uprev has just been lying out their @sses the whole time.

Go look at there Facebook page, there are pictures of them working on our block messing with VVEL recently and some in the past. They do care, but the Z is not the only car they work on.

m4a1mustang 10-22-2011 12:00 PM

They are also a relatively small operation from what I understand.

Deadman 10-22-2011 02:41 PM

Uprev: Yeah thats the VQ37VHR. Just wait till you see what we're doing to it next. Some people are going to cry.
Wednesday at 5:38pm · Like


seems as if they are moving forward on the vvel testing, looks legit! :P

1slow370 10-22-2011 03:02 PM

I'll be shocked if they do but hey it has been 2 years since I they said they "had it cracked but didn't want to it do to lack of support, unless I sent them my car an unknown amount of time" and I think it was $40g it only takes two phone calls to lose faith.

1slow370 10-22-2011 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by wstar (Post 1371714)
Vendor bash much? The extra clearance and adjustment room, as I already mentioned, is most likely for manufacturing tolerances, and if anything probably a safety margin so you don't hit anything if things get a little out of adjustment over time. Meaning it won't be universally available, usable, or safe. UpRev's been working hard on tuning our ECU for a long time, so it's kinda hard to claim they don't care either. If you'd like to purchase your own crate engine from Nissan for 8K to screw around and damage something and maybe figure out a trick to gain +3rwhp sometimes for some engines when the stars align, feel free :rolleyes:

Haha I actually have an extra set of heads for just that. And I'm not talking about the adjusting screws I'm talking a good ole valve clearance test it takes 2 hours and doesn' involve starting a car. If sam has a short block set of heads and a timing set we could lnow exactly what the vvel can and can't be adjusted to

theDreamer 10-22-2011 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by 1slow370 (Post 1371913)
I'll be shocked if they do but hey it has been 2 years since I they said they "had it cracked but didn't want to it do to lack of support, unless I sent them my car an unknown amount of time" and I think it was $40g it only takes two phone calls to lose faith.

Considering some other cars take 4+ years just for basic tuning, also the engine they are working on is a customers car and it took them a year just to get someone to volunteer to let them use the motor. I would give them a little slack.

1slow370 10-22-2011 07:10 PM

i will say if they do it it will be a nice way to go about it because it is fairly painless to use the factory ecu. I just don't trust anyone that feeds me lines instead of just saying we aren't working on it at this time. not this give us ur car and 40grand ****, they actually feed me the i'd "have to get 200 people in on a group buy for it cuz thats what they get from stillen" thats bs just say ur not gonna do it.

phunk 10-22-2011 10:56 PM

why wont anyone just let it go? sure it will be nice/great/cool if someone gets in there and allows us to play with making adjustments on the VVEL.

But as it currently stands, it works really amazing and does its job very well already and is an advantage other engines dont have. the gains are probably extremely marginal and aside from that you would probably just completely screw everything up.

people are so friggin worked up about the VVEL cracking and 99% of these people wouldnt know the first thing to do with it if it was handed to them. i find it boggling that people are getting so hot and bothered that they cannot adjust their VVEL, just leave it alone... if someone does it you will know.

Methodical4u 10-23-2011 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by phunk (Post 1372309)
why wont anyone just let it go? sure it will be nice/great/cool if someone gets in there and allows us to play with making adjustments on the VVEL.

But as it currently stands, it works really amazing and does its job very well already and is an advantage other engines dont have. the gains are probably extremely marginal and aside from that you would probably just completely screw everything up.

people are so friggin worked up about the VVEL cracking and 99% of these people wouldnt know the first thing to do with it if it was handed to them. i find it boggling that people are getting so hot and bothered that they cannot adjust their VVEL, just leave it alone... if someone does it you will know.

While I agree that this subject has been beaten to death... none of us know what sort of power gains we might see with adjusting the VVEL... so to say the gains may not be much is all just speculation.

Jeffblue 10-23-2011 09:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phunk (Post 1372309)
why wont anyone just let it go? sure it will be nice/great/cool if someone gets in there and allows us to play with making adjustments on the VVEL.

But as it currently stands, it works really amazing and does its job very well already and is an advantage other engines dont have. the gains are probably extremely marginal and aside from that you would probably just completely screw everything up.

people are so friggin worked up about the VVEL cracking and 99% of these people wouldnt know the first thing to do with it if it was handed to them. i find it boggling that people are getting so hot and bothered that they cannot adjust their VVEL, just leave it alone... if someone does it you will know.

:iagree:
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Red__Zed 10-23-2011 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phunk (Post 1372309)
why wont anyone just let it go? sure it will be nice/great/cool if someone gets in there and allows us to play with making adjustments on the VVEL.

But as it currently stands, it works really amazing and does its job very well already and is an advantage other engines dont have. the gains are probably extremely marginal and aside from that you would probably just completely screw everything up.

people are so friggin worked up about the VVEL cracking and 99% of these people wouldnt know the first thing to do with it if it was handed to them. i find it boggling that people are getting so hot and bothered that they cannot adjust their VVEL, just leave it alone... if someone does it you will know.


yeah, we should definitely spend our time worrying about things that actually matter. Rather than PM'ing guys about the VVEL status, we should check in on the status of the fuel stave fix.























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1slow370 10-23-2011 11:43 AM

wasn't there supposed to be a swirl can for that or something? also uprev isn't a vendor so i can thoroughly voice my dislike of their public relations all i want. great product, customer service not to bad, but can be **** sometimes.

phunk 10-23-2011 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Red__Zed (Post 1372599)
yeah, we should definitely spend our time worrying about things that actually matter. Rather than PM'ing guys about the VVEL status, we should check in on the status of the fuel stave fix.

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:owned:

Lol, hey it's production status now!


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