I would extremely recomend people look at another manufactuers product. I have went through a nightmare with my kit i bought from them. Got the whole kit installed and got to the last step and the tensioner pully wasn't in the box. Called vortech last friday they said they would next day air it. Monday came no tensioner. Called back said was still on the shipping table would send out that day. Tuesday comes no show. Will update the story tommorrow.

 

Dude... relax... it's not the end of the world. Ask them for some free stuff for your time. T-shirts, hats, etc.

 

Sounds like you're a little upset

Heck I would take the whole kit off and demand my money back

That would show them

You could have gone to a local Ford dealer and got that part and had it running already and probably been reimbursed by Vortech.

Thanks for the heads up, I wouldn't want to put any parts that suck on my car

 

I had a similar problem in that they left out the harmonic damper that's supposed to come with LT1 kits. Since I was also in a hurry (no reason except impatience), I had Vortech fax me a drawing so I could machine the stocker to the correct dimensions.

I never mentioned to them that they accidentally sent a 6.66" crank pulley instead of the damper.

Mike

 

When all else fails... get on the internet and b!tch.

Chris... your car is weak... I know... PSJ told me so.

 

Yep Yep. I have a Ford tensioner pulley on mine .

 

A little over-reaction??

Rich

 

Beh... Procharger is far better.

 

Oh yeah... that STS kit is top quality.

 

Is that so? Either can be made to work well. I think a centrifugal is easier to install.

Pump gas P'charger F1 383 through a loose converter with a crappy single exhaust. I bet there's another 50-75hp with a good exhaust system.:

http://www.kennedysdynotune.com/images/dynograph.jpg

Rich

 

Is that yours Rich?

 

Guilty as charged.

Rich

 

Hmmm... Maybe I should spin my engine to 7200 rpms.

The 'Bird dyno graph

No nitrous.

 

nice numbers, what pulleysizes do you use and how much boost do you see?
Im running a 7,65/3,7" pulley setup (17psi at 6500rpm) on oure pumpgas 8.5comp 383...

Can you spec a little more info, like comp, timing (wot), heads, cam etc

Thanks
ake

 

Those runs are made with a 2/1 pulley ratio, can't recall the exact size. For testing, I removed the intake piping and in that configuration it sees 21-22psi. With the intake installed it drops to ~17psi. The motor is a 10 over 3.75" stroke "383". Fairly radically ported AFR 195's. 7.8:1 CR. Water injection.

Rich