I just spoke to the shop owner of www.cprace.com about setting up a group deal on T/E upgrades. I will check back with him in a couple of days to see if he can get a better deal worked out with Vortech. But if I do this I will need the SERIOUS people to come forward so we know how many to set the deal up for.

 

im not sure which one i have t or e trim but when i blew my brand new V2 stillen upgraded me to the next blower to handle my set up for a couple hundred dollars more. just yesterday i called stillen to find out why my s/c is making louder noises and cricket sounds like the V1 but after reading some posts here it might be true about the trims making as much noise as the V1. i have to call vortech with a r/a # mon to find out if this is normal or is something wrong with my blower. my first impression was did they put a V1 blower in my V2 case. what i did notice off the back is its response is a little more precise when you hit the peddle like the power is on tap compared to the stock V2 but i havent had a chance to tear it up yet until the car is broken in just had a complete motor upgrade for the sec time in 4 months.
i blew it racing a couple of org members, i snapped on of my teeth on the crankshaft causing my timing chain to slip and bend all my valves.

 

It sounds like you have the T trim because of what you described. A T trim is a V1 based compressor wheel and it will make more noise than a V1 S trim. The power will come on quicker and it will make more of it.
The trim should be stamped on the serial plate on the top of the blower.

 

CMAX, how much was it to do the upgrade?

 

Vortech charges $875 to upgrade to a T.

 

i think it was 600 for me because of a long wait. they had promised me a 3 day turn around and it wound up taking 2 months. i had to pay storage time to the shop doing the work so they compensated.

 

Chunger,

My belt is rubbing with the 3.25 installed. Looking at your picture, do I need to grind down my plate where the smaller red circle on the left is? As far as the post conflict, I think I only have to shave it down slightly, not a complete chop.

Do you know the smallest pulley you can run w/o grinding/chopping the leg? Probably the next size up...3.33?

Thanks.

 

Sorry, I just got back from a 17 day jury duty...

I cut down the two red circle areas for my 3.12" pulley... You MAY not need to do it for the 3.33" but it's better to play it safe.

I chose not to REMOVE the whole post because of the "possible" bracket rigidity/alignment problems that MAY cause the belt to come off. I've never thrown a belt and plan to keep it that way.

 

Thanks for the reply.
Ptatohed and I opted to grind the leg too on my V2 plate. We feel exactly how you do about chopping it off completely. And besides, I don't think I'll ever go smaller than a 3.25 pulley. As far as the other little circle on the left, we shaved it a little bit, but upon further inspection, it doesn't appear to be a problem child.

James