• Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.

STS Twin Turbos

Shadow said:
:banghead: Damn Swammy! I got to tell you everything?:rofl1:

Sorry...Vette Magazine:thumbsup:

LIke I said, I can make color copies and send them to you if you like?
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I finally found that magazine. Who would have ever thought I actually would put the darn thing in the book case? That was the LAST place I ever expected it to be? :rolleyes:

After reading the article again, one thing does bother me about this. They show a photo of the air bridge used that blew apart during a dyno pull. Well that one looks EXACTLY like the one I have on my car... :ack2:

I guess I had better call Greg and ask him about this. Sure would hate to have pieces of carbon fiber sucked into the intake manifold if that happened to me.......
 
If your dropping it off Oct 2nd, and pick it up on the following Sat (Oct 7th) slide east on I-4 to Kissimmee (about 35-45 min from Tampa,,, just west of Orlando) to Old Town for the annual Vette Fest show. You can visit for the day and show off the new ride. Free to enter to show or watch, and if you show you can leave early if need be.:thumbsup:
 
Z06 Rocket said:
If your dropping it off Oct 2nd, and pick it up on the following Sat (Oct 7th) slide east on I-4 to Kissimmee (about 35-45 min from Tampa,,, just west of Orlando) to Old Town for the annual Vette Fest show. You can visit for the day and show off the new ride. Free to enter to show or watch, and if you show you can leave early if need be.:thumbsup:
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Hey, I just might do that! Hmm, the wife is going to have her truck to take me down there to pick up the vette, however. Have to figure out a way to make that work.

Thanks.
 
Rich Z said:
Hey, I just might do that! Hmm, the wife is going to have her truck to take me down there to pick up the vette, however. Have to figure out a way to make that work.

Thanks.
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There's alot of parking for non-vettes too, unless you leave the truck in Tampa and take her for the 1st ride in it over to the show.
 
Well, a lot has to do with timing. Depends on when Greg will actually have the car done. I'm a firm believer in Murphy's Law, so have learned the hard way to not set my expectations too high on promised deadlines. Parts could be missing, things can break, or any number of things can happen. :rolleyes:

So I'll just have to play this one by ear.
 
Wow, twin turbos. Oct 2! I couldn't wait that Long, Rich.
I'd be pulling the car apart on a car trailer as my wife drove down the road pulling us on my way to Anti-Venon.

So the next question for the week on Oct 2 is "


Monday: Is it soup yet? "
Tuesday: Is it soup yet?"
Wensday: Is it soup yet?"
Thursday: Is it soup yet?"
Friday: Is it soup yet?"
Saturday: "Lets Roll"
Saturday night, Well Officer I just got .......
 
Yeah, it is wearing on me, but quite honestly, I have so much to do around here that it makes time just whiz on by. Heck, I still have to pull those set screws out of the shifter because I believe someone has bought my Hurst and I need them to ship out to him. Then the windshield decals should be showing up on Tuesday and I would LIKE to get them put on ASAP. And that is not even getting into my regular business stuff.

So yeah, the weekend will get here soon enough, I think.

The HARD part will be NEXT week when the vette is away from home and I will be anticipating the drive HOME!! :thumbsup:

Of course, if I get a speeding ticket with the wife following behind me, I wil ABSOLUTELY NEVER hear the end of it......... :ack2:
 
:banghead: Looks like there might be a snag. Par for the course, I guess.

Greg emphatically told me I should get the reinforced airbridge from STS for the twin turbos. He said they already blew up a couple of regular ones at the shop. Well, no big deal, I thought, as they are only $170. But little did I realize that they are on BACKORDER at STS! They are SUPPOSED to be being shipped tomorrow, but that leaves me between a rock and a hard place.

Do I take the car to Greg and just HOPE the airbridge comes in? And if so, if he does the install, do I let him test it with my aftermarket (carbon fiber) airbridge anyway and maybe pop it? From what I have seen, those bad boys cost around $300 new, so at the very least I could sell mine for about half that and come close to paying for the STS one.

Or do I just grit my teeth and hold off the install until the STS airbridge actually shows up at Anti Venom's place? :shrug01: :shrug01:

Guess I'll have to call Greg tomorrow and talk to him about it.

There must be a universal law of nature that NOTHING ever goes smoothly on this planet.
 
Rats....

Well I had to just bite the bullet and postpone the STS install. The airbridge is still on backorder and I don't have any firm committment as to when I would get one. Talked to Greg this morning and he said it would be no problem delaying the install as he had another install lined up he could switch with me. Even STS says that nearly every airbridge they tried with testing blew up from the pressure except for the reinforced ones. So I can't see the sense of worrying about that happening to me on the ride home.

Hate to do it, but it seems like the only reasonable thing to do. Dammit....

Of course, the thought does come to mind as to why in the world doesn't STS just include the darn airbridge in the kit in the first place, since nearly all the ones out there just won't cut the mustard? :mad:
 
Well, the BBK airbridge came in today. I opted for the chrome one...

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Quite honestly if this thing doesn't hold the pressures from the twin turbos, NOTHING will! Feels solid as a rock. And actually feels as heavy as one as well. Odd that all of the advertising copy I read about this thing used the word "lightweight" describing this thing. Well I guess everything is relative. Certainly it is lighter than my alternator and one of my wheels. But at 4.5 pounds, I CERTAINLY wouldn't call it "lightweight" in my book. Quite honestly, except for an application that absolutely NEEDS something of a robust nature, not way I would want to use this boat anchor in place of the MUCH MORE lighter weight carbon fiber airbridges.

But in any event, I should be all set for the install. Just have to call Greg at Anti Venom and make sure everything is OK for me to take the car down there this weekend. :dancer01:
 
I think I need an avatar. Does anyone remember the cartoon character that always had the rain cloud over his head that followed him around? Because that is what I feel like........

Called Greg at Anti Venom to check on doing the STS install next week and come to find out that his dyno is broken. He is expecting the replacement part next week. Maybe. Problem is that at the very least he wouldn't be able to do the "before" dyno run on my car prior to the install. And if the part does not come in, my choices would be to either take the car with only a street tune, or leave it there until the part does come in so a dyno tune could be done.

So all things considered, we decided to wait yet another week for the install.

Problem is that I am a very strong believer in omens and portents. And the signs are all looking pretty shaky right around now. :nonod:
 
It will be worth the wait to have Greg do the install from what I have hard and seen at his shop he is one of the best around and can some how get more hp out of a corvette than most tuners. He is street tuning my dads 2000 SS Camaro today and said he'd get it running better that my vette, witch means I be in there soon getting something done. Anyway just hang in there it will be worth it.
 
Well it's just DARN weird how things can turn out. Not long after talking to Greg and realizing I was going to have to postpone the install again, I had a rather large order come in that needs to be shipped out tomorrow. So I would have had to decline that order as I just wouldn't have been here.

Then to make things even more interesting, the water pump to the house and buildings went kaput. So I would have likely had to cancel the install anyway, thinking at the time that I wouldn't get it fixed until tomorrow, at best. But the guy happened to have a new pump and actually pulled it from the ground and replaced it all by himself just a few minutes ago. Of course, I wouldn't have known that when I realized the pump was gone, and would have called Greg to cancel the install.

So Murhpy's Law through all kinds of curves at me today. And I guess I have to consider that it looks like I came out a little ahead on the balance sheet. That doesn't happen very often, however......... :rolleyes:
 
Rich Z said:
I think I need an avatar. Does anyone remember the cartoon character that always had the rain cloud over his head that followed him around? Because that is what I feel like........
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Patience grasshopper...

Here is your cartoon character from the Lil Abner comic. His name is Joe Bfstplk.
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OK everyone! I need you all to cross everything you have for me. Greg just called me and said the parts to repair the dyno SHOULD be in on Friday. If so, I can take the Z down there on Saturday and leave it for the install next week.

:bow: :bow:
 
ALLRIGHTY THEN!!

Just got off the phone with Greg and everything is good to go for the install this upcoming week. Going to be dropping off the vette on Sunday and if everything goes well, picking it back up next weekend.

:party:
 
Good luck...Greg had a dyno day at his shop a few months back that I went to, and he is one of the nicest guy you could meet...:thumbsup:
 
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