Richard is installing this on my baby this Friday....
Custom Stock-looking 2.6" Black Blower Pulley
Metco Idler - double bearing (Black)
Fluidyne Heat Exchanger
xCal3 Tuner & dyno tunes
NGK Plugs
Hypertech thermostat (160ºF)
Thanks for your concern, but I'd already ordered it; I wanted the quality of the Metco with double bearings, and I seriously don't think the Ford tech would be fooled by the fact that the idler looks like a stock item! The reason I'm using the stock-looking pulley is that it just looks right.From my experience don't go with the Metco Idler if you don't want to deal with warranty issues. Just get the stock look idler from VMP as well. Learn from my mistake!
thankswill do. Your car IS sweet as well!
http://www.vmptuning.com/store/index.php?p=product&id=206&parent=104
A Ford tech wouldn't looks twice at this and and the stock look pulley. It's a proven setup that runs on a ton of GT500s. As long as you haven't used the Metco you can return it. I thought people would have learned from my woes.
I work at a Ford dealer, I work on these cars on the side, I've modded them, I sell performance parts, I've driven them, etc... And even I would never know the difference.
How about twin 53's??? They're for sale.
dude, don't forget you need to do the fog-light deletes....you have unused potential there....
After doing a baseline pull on the dyno, the aftermarket airfilter I'd previously installed (in my "infinite wisdom") flowed so much better than the stock unit, that it made the MAF sensor go haywire and the motor was running too lean and I was actually losing power (max sustained 415 rear wheel hp). So Richard put in a stock tune that he adjusted to account for the airfilter and we did a 2nd baseline pull; 453 rwhp/438 rwtq....much better, especially given the 90*F plus ambient temps.
The fluidyne heat exchanger has more than twice the capacity of the stock unit, and the 2.7" pulley (stock is 3") will spin the blower faster for 3 to 4 psi more of boost, which will not only generate an extra ~ 60 to 80 rwhp, but also result in the torque peak moving lower I the rpm range.
I'm hoping for 530 rwhp 502 rwtq.
Will keep you apprised of the final result.
Your comment was right on the money bpmurr. Ok so in my post above, I made the mistake of not looking at the CF on the baseline run...it was on STD. Looking at my runs in SAE, there's a 50 to 56 rwhp gain under 90% of the curve.
