VMAX Black ICE-olator 1st impression
I had this installed on Saturday (at the Carmaro rally, thanks Tracy, RX) and immediately did a fuse pull to reset the computer. I didn’t really get a chance to test out the feel of the car until my ride to work this morning as I was only 5 mintues from the show.
Anyway my ride in the morning is about 19 miles, all of which is rural/city but I do have a few places I can open it up a bit. It was a cool 51 degrees here in Orlando this morning and I drove in sport mode (not tap shift mode) as I always do. The 1st few miles were uneventful, the only thing I noticed was some weird shift points, and I’ll attribute this to the fuse pull and the computer relearning.
Once I hit mile 10 I had some places I was able to open it up a bit and I can without a doubt in my mind say I felt a difference. I felt a pull in the car I never felt before once I hit about 3K rpm. It was almost like the car was connected to some kind of pulley, I actually backed off the gas as it caught me by such surprise. I opened it up again and this time was prepared and let it go, I swear I heard my tires chirped when it shifted from 3 to 4. Gas mileage was the same 21.5mpg, but considering I had 3-4 good runs that was quite impressive. When I got to work I felt the IM and it was cool, minutes later it did heat up but I am told this is normal.
I’ll do more testing later today (my ride home is mostly hwy) but so far I am quite impressed with what I have felt so far.
As a note, for those with the GM stut bar this will fit with no issues even with the engine cover on!
Edit: I forgot to mention, I did not port match.
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Soprano 4/1/00-6/14/11, Gone but NEVER forgotten! FSP tuned: 377/389
Last edited by nyrfan; 03-05-2012 at 03:00 PM.
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