Well, decided to take the car to the race track tonight. Mods are Velocity AP pulleys, tune, air filters and cats/dp...dyno is scheduled in about a week and a half to actually fine tune the car but it's just a very safe tune right now.

I did my first hit with this setup right off of the street...no cool down or anything...car probably heat soaked by the time I checked in and such. I wanted to see what it would do off of the street with no cool down time.

Well another thing is this track has a short shutdown at the 1/4 and I always shut down early on the first pass as this kind of mph on this track...well let's just say you have to be ready for the shut down!!

Anyway, hot engine right off of the street and heat soaked a bit, first pass at the track on new setup, on the brakes and the car did 10.97@119mph.

2nd pass let the car cool down and it did 10.89@130.10mph.

3rd pass the car was not cooled down as much and it was actually on its best pass, but didn't go to 5th and was on the limiter. I was watching the end of the track and my mph closely and just didn't hit 5th which lost about 5mph or so and the car did 10.90@125.5mph.

There are a couple more things that will make the car a bit faster, but this car is pretty much done. I'm just going to enjoy it now.

EDIT: The video is now up

 

That's amazingly fast. Hell, the new Corvette Z06 just broke into the 10's and generally runs about 125-127 MPH.

 

125+ trap speed is impressive. Congrats! Curious to see what your dyno numbers are going to be.

 

I'm sure it will have a little more power left on the table, but will report back the numbers when everything is done.

 

I now have the video up.

 

I raced a 2018 ZO6 a couple weeks or so ago and he was pretty shocked at the outcome. Lol Also raced a Challenger Red Eye 4 times and he couldn't believe what just happened either. Most people just don't expect it.

 

Has anyone got any slips for the V6 3.0 WITH stage 2

 

What's your go-to method for launching?

 

Nice work!

I may have missed the install thread.

Did you have any issues with either pulley install?
Did you use new bolts for either one?
Was a torch (the heating USA kind, not the flashlight UK kind ) needed to free any stubborn pulley bolts?
Did you load the tune immediately after the installs or did you drive conservatively till you were able to re-flash with the new Velocity tune?
I might be paying a shop to do the pulley installs but I want to handle the tune install myself from the comfort of my home using my laptop, etc. I don't want to have to rush doing that at the shop's garage.

Thanks.

 

When I did my V6 pulley no torch was necessary. The parts and the full complement of tools are shown here:



The tune I got from VAP was configured such that it would work with the stock pulley and give a bit more power, but would be ready for the overdrive pulley. That's what I asked for and it worked as promised.

 

Thanks Steve. Upper pulley only?

 

Lower only. On the V6 the upper is only a couple of percent and not worth it for most people.

 

The pic may be a little misleading for some as that is the stock/OEM crank pulley not a VAP (or Eurotoys) pulley.
The stock pulley has the rubber dampening ring, the balancing drilled out slot(s) and the engraved lettering.

 

I have a how to videos for the v6 if you want it

 

I had no intention of misleading and never would. The pulley and belt aside, the picture has all the tools I used for the job, other than whatever was used to get me some clearance to slide under the front of the car. As I recall, that was the swapped parts and all the tools I actually used. Anything I'd set aside but didn't pick up for the job wasn't included.

 

I wasn't having a go at you and I definitely was not suggesting that you had any intention to mislead, I was simply pointing out that having an OEM pulley in the pic of "parts and the full compliment of tools" might be misleading to some, eg new punters / young players. Maybe I could have phrased it a little better!

 

And used the right "complement", too!

 

Ya got me!

 

No worries. I could have provided more explanation with the picture. I had taken it on installation day and didn't even think about it when I reposted. I was trying to highlight that there isn't much needed, although I did buy a set of Torx bits in preparation for the task. I literally grabbed two fistfuls of tools and in the end, those were the only ones I used. An extra note might be that I have a manual transmission so did not have any issues keeping the crankshaft from turning. I think it was 2nd gear and the parking brake.

"Disclaimer: Your pulley may differ from that shown."

Some day we'll sit down over beers and laugh at this little misunderstanding.

 

I'll try to do a writeup sometime to make sure I don't miss any details.