Well, I will be out of town until the 21st so I wanted to give an update on our development before I leave.
1) Things are going great! We are right on track and we have made some big leaps ahead over the past week!
2) We spent last week dyno testing the car without the intercooler and the numbers are awesome!!! We have a few things holding us back from reaching some pretty magic numbers but we're still getting close! The car we're testing with is an automatic G37 coupe with heavy 20" show wheels...So there is a lot of additional parasitic loss through the heavy wheels and the auto trans. We can't wait to get it on to our manual gearbox 370Z. Also, the intercooler manufacturer has had some hiccups and they weren't able to get us the core until today. We CNC machined the end tanks and they are out at our fab. shop getting welded up today. Yes, that means we were getting great numbers without the intercooler, and with an auto trans and heavy wheels!!! Just wait until we can start getting more aggressive with the tuning when the intercooler is in there and we can put the kit on the Z with less parasitic loss!!! This thing is going to be awesome!!!
3) One of the concerns we had was deflection of the mounting bracket causing belts to slip. I am very proud to report that our engineer's were focused on this and thanks to their creative mounting solutions there is absolutely no movement on the mounting bracketry. The blower is sitting perfect and there is no deflection at all. On some of our previous kits we used cast aluminum mounting brackets with the Vortech kits but on this one we have gone with a water jet billet aluminum mount so that there is a lot more material in there so a lot less movement.
This week we will be finalizing the tuning and instructions. Next week we will begin our endurance testing. We will be prepared with pricing and horsepower information very soon.
We are still right on track for release around the end of February, beginning of March!!!
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