Precisely what he said

 

One of the four secondary gauges, the voltmeter, is replaced by a boost gauge on the GT500. They're rearranged a bit too:


(From royobrien.com)

 

Me likey that!!

 

Come on Brad, you knew that. You're just playing with us aren't you?

 

HastaLaVista,
I like your avatar. I have a picture of some people in a car that I'd like to do the same thing to. Any ideas?

 

I grabbed it off ytmnd, just resized it. You'd have to get a (freeware) animated gif editor and do it frame by frame. Not too tough.

 

Whoa...significant boost at 2500? So when does a twin screw start making significant boost?

I was under the impression that a centrifugal would *start* producing boost at 2500 and linearly increase boost until at 100% at like 6k or something.

Then a twin screw would start making boost at like 2300 and make 100% boost at like 3k or something.

I know I'm probably wrong, but someone who knows this stuff, please chime in and correct me and provide some moderately accurate numbers (in terms of when boost starts till it's at 100% and what the curve looks like...the boost curve, not the torque curve).

While you're at it, can you also explain to me what the bypass valve is and how it works?

 

Awesome, simply awesome. Now who wants to sponsor me one for Project "Wife's gonna leave me if I buy anything else for the car"

 

Adrenalin,

My wife might not be leaving me but I'm looking for a sponser as well. If I only had $6k to blow.......

 

Bypass/Blowoff valves improve supercharger operations by opening to relieve unwanted pressure during deceleration, this reduces heat build-up and eliminates compressor surge.

 

Is there also a valve that relieves pressure when not accelerating? It doesn't make sense to be using 8 lb of boost when just cruising, right? Like the s/c would be making 8 lbs of boost, but detect that the car isn't under load and just be dumping the extra air, but when it detects load, instantly shuts off the valve routing the extra air into the engine...?

 

awesome

gotta love that lil vortech logo brad.

now

if i come to visit will i get to test drive it

i need to...umm... feel the wind in my hair

 

what about Fuel efficiency Brad?

 

No idea. I didn't buy the car for fuel efficiency, and right now I have an issue with the car revving to 3200 RPMs when I shift to neutral, so I can't get an accurance fuel economy reading.

 

revs to 3200 at stop lights? everyone that you come next to probaly thinks you are trying to race! lol

 

Get rid of that TB and that will stop that...

 

 

Vortechs are fun - I have owned a couple of them on other Mustangs. I'm a little disappointed in the packaging on this kit but I guess the cramped engine compartment of the new Mustang poses too many problems to work around for their centrifugal head unit. I think perhaps the Procharger has the best solution I have seen so far as far as packaging goes for the centrifugals, which is odd because I thought their pushrod motor kits were by far the worst.

Enjoy your car!

 

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I love the wheels and decal, look nice, I'm still no fan of vortech, but under the hood all does look very nice. I really dont care for the two guages in between the vents though, they look out of place and hard to see from the drivers seat.
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Good thing he didnt build it for you, huh?
I think its awesome and it doesnt matter what anyone else says. Great job Brad!

 

First Smokin looking set up. Second to piggy back a little, I'm interested in getting 380 - 400 rwhp out of my 05 auto! Since I live in a town which sees 90-105 degrees about 5 months out of the year I'm also leaning towards the Air-to-Water Intercooler. However I'm really serious about limiting my hp as I'm nervous about Rod & Piston duribility. Ultimately would it be wise to get the intercooler or is unnessary at the boost levels I'm interested in running? Want to get a fair number of years out of my street driven stang.