Bit of an update: last week my tuner had a chance to re-tune my car for the colder weather. I was not at the shop when he was messing with it, I believe he worked on it from about 7:30pm to around 12:30am. I got a few funny texts from him that night:
"tried different things with the VVEL"
"I can make this b*tch sound like it has a big *ss cam in it"
"F*ck your car"
"slight exhaust leak before the turbo"
"Turned of the throttle control, makes it feel like it has a throttle cable now"
"I can definitely adjust cam timing, going to call Jared tomorrow and see about adjusting lift"
"Third gear pulls crazy"
"made 24 more wtq @ 2400 rpm"

Johnny cracks me up! I picked the car up Friday and drove it all weekend and took it Import Face Off with no issues at all. The car was a totally new beast, felt more like my old built TT 350Z. I'm about to go take a few GoPro vids via 98intrigues camera and post them up in my journal! I'll be dropping the car back off at the shop Tuesday to do some more testing, fix the exhaust leak and get some more numbers. I'll keep yall posted.

Mmmmmmm.... lumpy idle. I like em big. Wait... disregard

You should if you care about seeing how other tuners on other platforms has done with similar technologies. Otherwise you can live short sighted. It's up to you.

Good to hear, that things went well. Next part will be the part that will be most interesting. Keep up the good work and let us know how it goes.

Are you going to be able to get any comparable charts by chance?

Yes, I have access to all my dyno pulls. I need to go to the shop, get on the computer and forward the newer charts to myself. I only have my 6psi charts from last year on this computer. He set the boost controller to 10psi. on these recent pulls, I will post an overlay when we get final numbers, etc..

ya excpet there vvti works NOTHING like our our VVEL... in absolutely no way, shape, or form would any technology unlocked by toyota tuners translate to our cars. the ONLY similarity between the 2 is that they changed valve timing... thats it. thats like comparing our cars to the bmw vanos system. it makes no sense to go on and on about who called the damn system a vvt, vvti, or vvtlmnop... who cares. it has nothing to do with our engine, VVEL, or the tuning we have to do to it

I want to get rid of the throttle control! I cannot stand it below 2k.

Yes it was disgusting, so laggy. However, when you do disable it, the sportronic throttle blips are disabled so I'm back to the ol' heel to toe action while downshifting. I don't mind it at all.

I have 7AT so not sure how it would affect me.

That's kind of depressing actually, I love my SynchroRev...:mad:

I'd like to see an NA car get the VVEL played with. That would be interesting even if the results aren't stellar.

if a uprev tuner around my area wants to try they can do my car. i got my own uprev cable and license too. plus my car is about to be put away for winter here soon as well.

Spoke to GTM they have no idea about this.

I'm lying, you caught me! GTM isn't UpRev FYI. If GTM hasn't posted something about VVEL control or anything else concerning our platform than it's obviously not real!