you made it look fairly simple.

 

It is fairly simple. However, it does require the right tools and a lot of patience. And be prepared to have small scratches all over your hands.

 

so onto more serious questions, how much are you charging us forum members for installs!?

=D

 

LOL. I'd leave that to the professionals at GTM. I'd probably only do this for my own car as a hobby. I cant imagine doing this as a living.

 

Oh for sure. Any meets coming up?

 

can't wait til the 1st start up and hear those turbos spoolin up

 

Supposed to be one on October 24th in Irvine. Need to finalize everything tho

 

Looking forward to seeing your setup! Interested in your gages and exhaust combination.

If I am not mistaken, there could be 3 TT'd V36 at the meet. Maybe that'll be enough to push Gamedog over the edge?!

 

 

Yeah, each time I pulled it I eliminated a lot of stuff that didn't need to be there. Don't know if I would feel comfortable enough with this one since its a relatively new model and doesn't have many write ups, but might try it. The Z had about 8-10 years of people posting data so I was never at a loss if I ran into a problem. If i did it I wouldn't worry about the AC, but I could see the concern.

BTW, did you do any suspension mods? Have to look up the auto TT's as I might slowly start upgrading suspension and things like that so I wold only have to dump a lump sum into the TT kit and EPROM flash.

Keep up the good work.

 

Terry, who posted above has an auto (his is a 5 speed sedan). I think you can upgrade the valve body and TQ converter pretty easily (not 100% sure on the 7 speed). That should be enough for modest power gains--say up to 500HP.

 

I have the 5AT in my car. It's been doing fine so far with trans cooler and shift kit. BUT I haven't been beating the crap out of it either.

I usually leave the wastegates on spring pressure for about 380ish WHp. Once in a while I'll turn it up to 470 WHp, but 380 is more than enough to spin my 285 tires off the line.

 

Hows that tranny behave though with the turbos? Do you use the manual shifting with the paddles or stick? There is a significant lag in between shifting on the paddles and the tranny shifting. Wondering what its like win low gears with fast spool up. In sports mode my down shifting is hard and I could easily see throwing the car off balance.

Can you elaborate on the shift kit or point me to a site with it? Thanks

 

In sport mode (DS), the transmission can behave in two ways. During normal driving, it will shift and feel like it is in (D) mode. Very conservative. BUT during heavy acceleration, braking or cornering, the transmission will shift close to redline. When the transmission is in this mode and you are approaching a stop, the downshifts will be VERY firm because the car is preparing to accelerate and wants to be at a high RPM.

I usually like to upshift at around 3K RPM under normal load. To me, the DS mode is either too "aggresive" shifting at redline or too "conservative" and shifting before 2K RPM. This is why I like to drive 95% in (M) mode so I can control the up AND downshift points.

Couple of things to keep in mind when (M) shifting with turbos:

The first is I've learned to anticipate the proper time to hit the paddles for gear changes at redline. In doing so, I sometimes hit the paddle too early and transmission does not process the request because it thinks the RPM are too low when it detects the paddle switch closing. With the TT, the RPM swings up SUPER fast so the car would hit the rev limiter as a missed shift even though I hit the paddle super early. Lesson learned ... use the DS mode if you are expecting to do full throttle launches. It won't miss a shift.

The second thing to keep in mind when (M) shifting is if one gets lazy letting the transmission do automatic downshifts. You may or may not be in the right gear for accelerating if say you are approaching a red light that suddenly turns green.

In regards to (DS) mode throwing your car off balance ... I do not know for certain. I haven't done it yet, but if I were going to drive a road course, I would shift in (M) mode until I learn how the car behaves in (DS) mode.

All this information may make driving with a shift kit sound more complicated than it really is, but you get used to it.

 

Wow, thats intense, mad props fer the diy brother!