When installing a Vortech is it recommended to have an oil spacer for the extra court of oil as well as a Harness to solder too so you can spare the stock one?

Also does anyone know of any good shops in New York who could perform a nice clean vortech install?

Wanted to install this vortech i am going to purchase but a little worried about what im getting myself into, for the most part i like to drive my Z everyday although i have a spare car i can use.. Should i go through with the whole thing?

Thanks

 

Yes and Yes

 

I installed my own Vortech.
To be honest it is quite an easy install to do.

 

+1 although you do not *need* either.

 

I am running the oil pan spacer. I would recommend it for the $95 that it costs. The added oil capacity is always a good thing. As far as the harness goes, if you are paying someone to do the install, you are likely paying them a set amount for the install so dont spend the $300 on the harness thinking you will save on the install cause you probably wont. If you plan on getting rid of the car in the future you should probably not cut up the OEM wiring.

As said above, yes you should go thru with it. I have been a little disappointed with the results of my install because of the problems I have been seeing, but the added power is definitely nice. If I had it to do over again, I would go with what I had originally wanted which was the Turbonetics single turbo.

 

What kind of problems have you been seeing?? Are these costly problems? and are there certain things i can do to avoid them? Thanks for the information, greatly appreciated, id love to hear anything else as well

 

Sorry about that. The problems are just those that are frustrating as hell. The stock Vortech pulley is an 8 psi pulley so I assumed I would be seeing 8 psi of boost. Instead, I am ONLY seeing anywhere from 5.0-5.7 psi of boost MAX. This is resulting in a peak HP of about 340HP. I also dynoed somewhere else and got 305HP. That was with headers, test pipes, dual exhaust and the Kinetix manifold. I have had boost leak checks done before and after the blower as well as the Maxflo bypass valve adjusted as many different ways as possible. I guess you could say the problems are costly as I have had to pay about $300 to troubleshoot and find absolutely nothing wrong with the system. I think I just have a Monday or Friday motor. Either that or the QC dept was on vacation the day it was machined!

 

Didn't someone else have this problem? I think it was the Blowoff valve, that was the problem. Once they got a new one eveything worked fine. You should take it off and send it to Vortech and tell them to check it out. They will probably send you a new one. I had a problem with the SS box with my kit and I send it in and got one back in 4 days. (pretty fast service)

 

I had thought about buying whichever Greddy BOV people are using in conjunction with the Vortech but just havent gotten up the $$$ to do so.

 

I put 18psi on the Vortech BOV and it held the preasure ..with no problems . The only reason you would want to change it , is to get a diff. sound

 

you mean pppppssssssssts vs. pppppwwooossshh!
got stock Vortech and GReddy S, to me not worth the swap!!