FYI: The New SI-Trim Vortech just came in!

Just my .02 but the cooler will be well worth it by far. You might need to cut the inner bumber up a bit but who cares.Most people that over spin the blower are in the range of 250+ on the inlet temps.But not alot of people go thru the hassle of checking. Witch kills HP gains. There is a fine line for tuning and happyness. With the cooler on my old set up we went down to 160 deg on the inlet temps. I know the Renagade guys are up over 325+ But they are also spining thie shit out of everything. Mine was only at 6500rpms and a wopping 15-17 lbs of boost. So if you can get the cooler in there do it you will be happy in the end.
 
thanks a lot, I liked my aftercooler but for me and my cars use it wasnt working well. I mean, for 1/4 mile passes they are great, dump ice in and have below ambient intake temps. But with me I drive on the street and occasionally open track and theres no way to keep it from heat soaking so thats what drove me to make the swap.

I sold my aftercooler for a little more than what im going to buy all the parts for to make the A/A setup. The link on the corral I posted has some good pics, he did a nice job. Youre right though, many people hack them together without much thought.

Ill be sure to take lots of pics, I am going to try to route piping and mount the intercooler without removing the bumper cover though so I dont know how good the install pics will be.

thanks again!
 
P.F.M. said:
Just my .02 but the cooler will be well worth it by far. You might need to cut the inner bumber up a bit but who cares.Most people that over spin the blower are in the range of 250+ on the inlet temps.But not alot of people go thru the hassle of checking. Witch kills HP gains. There is a fine line for tuning and happyness. With the cooler on my old set up we went down to 160 deg on the inlet temps. I know the Renagade guys are up over 325+ But they are also spining thie shit out of everything. Mine was only at 6500rpms and a wopping 15-17 lbs of boost. So if you can get the cooler in there do it you will be happy in the end.
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I am for sure going to use an intercooler. Im looking for intake air temps in the 20* above ambient range.

the results with my water/ air setup are in this link as well as my plans for the intercooler setup.

http://motownmuscle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71916
 
The bumper cover is actuly really easy to take off. It would make things easier to put in and mock up. But either way good luck and keep us posted.
 
Venmous28 said:
how old was your blower, to just make sure things were cool with a rebuild??

not a bad price..
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It was older than 6 years because vortech didnt have a record in their system of it. They only keep records for 6 years, I bought it used so there's no telling really. They rebuilt it because the SI-trim can spin higher and they wanted to step to the more recent bearings. The blower didnt really need a rebuild but they advised to do so. They have a clause in their rebuild policy that if they recommend a rebuild they have the right to KEEP YOUR BLOWER if you refuse a rebuild... So I went ahead with it.

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I still have yet to see this badass car!
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Pete, It wont be running for about a month I bet but after that Ill be around and at least able to drive it to meets.

later
 
avbcon12 said:
It was older than 6 years because vortech didnt have a record in their system of it. They only keep records for 6 years, I bought it used so there's no telling really. They rebuilt it because the SI-trim can spin higher and they wanted to step to the more recent bearings. The blower didnt really need a rebuild but they advised to do so. They have a clause in their rebuild policy that if they recommend a rebuild they have the right to KEEP YOUR BLOWER if you refuse a rebuild... So I went ahead with it.
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sounds like it was the right thing to do. Come to think of it, mine's older than 6 years too..
 
Venmous28 said:
sounds like it was the right thing to do. Come to think of it, mine's older than 6 years too..
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Yeah, I only had driven this blower about 1000 miles though in the last few years ive had it so I know it was still a very low mileage blower.

I forgot to add, I just sold the Volute and Impeller to someone that wanted to upgrade their SC-trim so I made $225 of that $727 back which brings the grand total to $502
 
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the cost of the rebuild was for sure offset by the price i sold my volute/ impeller. If you dont ask for them back they will keep them.

I forgot to add that if they recommend a rebuild and you do not want them to rebuild it there is a $100 (plus shipping both ways of course) service fee to have them send your blower back to you in pieces. So I guess it wouldnt be a total loss but you would end up with a completely disassembled and unbalanced unit thats basically good for nothing.
 
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If i send mine out, i will just have them upgrade it. Seems more worth it than having themlook it over and fixing it. I know they want like 900 bucks to replace seals and bearings. thats crazy..i will replace those.
 
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