This is one of those after mod tune reports - aka the fun stuff.
I had been contemplating which way to go with this car and finally decided it would be fun and educational to move it slowly up the ranks and enjoy it at various power levels before ending up as TT. It certainly has plenty of power to enjoy on the street or track at any level.
My car came with a pulley tune (2.8" SC and 10% under) but I had no data on the tune and I wasn't even sure what fuel grade it was tuned with. Also, some of you may remember the collapsing intake boot matter. If you missed that video, here's the link to that again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEVYbt6xwU&feature=plcp (paste it in or check the tread here- Intake boot collapse)
The OEM intake boot stiffener was missing when I got the car and it gave me a nasty pause between 4000-5000 rpm, as evidenced in the video. The upside was it really showed me that even at moderate power increases, such as with a pulley tune, the demand on the cold air supply is pretty huge and the cold air intake could do with some improving. I didn't know it at the time, but The GT Guys already had a bead on this and had developed a really sweet cold air intake kit. The kit looks awesome, sexy in fact. It's extremely easy to install, if you stand back 5-7 ft you can practically throw it at the car and the parts will land in the right place. They claimed a 35hp gain on pump gas. Cool. I'm game. So on it goes along with an Accufab dual blade TB. We'll see.
Enter Torrie.
Torrie rolled into town, unleashed, in his sparkling black Roush Mustang with his lap top and proceeded to terrorize my cat, drink all my beer and at the same time leave me with one really sweet tune. The boy knows his stuff and he's fun to work with - but I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know. He exceeded my expectations. I'm super stoked. We got what we think are some pretty good results for a stock blower. I'll have to say too, I'm a fan of the work Rich and Dennis at GTG put into their cold air kit. Great looks and there is at least 35hp buried back there. Go dig it out and Torrie can put it to work.
So in this configuration with a stock SC, Torrie unleashed;
695rwhp
649ftlbs
at a nice 17.5lbs. boost
:banana
Since the OEM boost gauge was now useless, we temp'ed in a direct reading vacuum gauge into the bleed port on the intake manifold, just to verify the boost level. I'll do something about the panel gauge later.
Here's a video or two of the dyno pulls and the boost gauge in action as well as some pics of the cold air kit work, the final dyne graph and the man himself. It's a really, really fun car right now. Quick, much more full of spirit and the tune barks with enthusiasm even in slow traffic thru the GTG X pipe exhst. I know many of you went down this road long ago, but you should know, it's still a butt load of fun down here. My thanks to Torrie of Unleashed Tuning, The GTG and Accufab for making the smile permanently bigger. :thumbsup:biggrin:biggrin:biggrin
[video=youtube;CsouZ5HJPj0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsouZ5HJPj0&feature=plcp [/video]
[video=youtube;YV_slduwdl4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV_slduwdl4&feature=youtu.be[/video]
I had been contemplating which way to go with this car and finally decided it would be fun and educational to move it slowly up the ranks and enjoy it at various power levels before ending up as TT. It certainly has plenty of power to enjoy on the street or track at any level.
My car came with a pulley tune (2.8" SC and 10% under) but I had no data on the tune and I wasn't even sure what fuel grade it was tuned with. Also, some of you may remember the collapsing intake boot matter. If you missed that video, here's the link to that again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGEVYbt6xwU&feature=plcp (paste it in or check the tread here- Intake boot collapse)
The OEM intake boot stiffener was missing when I got the car and it gave me a nasty pause between 4000-5000 rpm, as evidenced in the video. The upside was it really showed me that even at moderate power increases, such as with a pulley tune, the demand on the cold air supply is pretty huge and the cold air intake could do with some improving. I didn't know it at the time, but The GT Guys already had a bead on this and had developed a really sweet cold air intake kit. The kit looks awesome, sexy in fact. It's extremely easy to install, if you stand back 5-7 ft you can practically throw it at the car and the parts will land in the right place. They claimed a 35hp gain on pump gas. Cool. I'm game. So on it goes along with an Accufab dual blade TB. We'll see.
Enter Torrie.
Torrie rolled into town, unleashed, in his sparkling black Roush Mustang with his lap top and proceeded to terrorize my cat, drink all my beer and at the same time leave me with one really sweet tune. The boy knows his stuff and he's fun to work with - but I'm probably not telling you anything you don't already know. He exceeded my expectations. I'm super stoked. We got what we think are some pretty good results for a stock blower. I'll have to say too, I'm a fan of the work Rich and Dennis at GTG put into their cold air kit. Great looks and there is at least 35hp buried back there. Go dig it out and Torrie can put it to work.
So in this configuration with a stock SC, Torrie unleashed;
695rwhp
649ftlbs
at a nice 17.5lbs. boost
:banana
Since the OEM boost gauge was now useless, we temp'ed in a direct reading vacuum gauge into the bleed port on the intake manifold, just to verify the boost level. I'll do something about the panel gauge later.
Here's a video or two of the dyno pulls and the boost gauge in action as well as some pics of the cold air kit work, the final dyne graph and the man himself. It's a really, really fun car right now. Quick, much more full of spirit and the tune barks with enthusiasm even in slow traffic thru the GTG X pipe exhst. I know many of you went down this road long ago, but you should know, it's still a butt load of fun down here. My thanks to Torrie of Unleashed Tuning, The GTG and Accufab for making the smile permanently bigger. :thumbsup:biggrin:biggrin:biggrin
[video=youtube;CsouZ5HJPj0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsouZ5HJPj0&feature=plcp [/video]
[video=youtube;YV_slduwdl4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV_slduwdl4&feature=youtu.be[/video]
