D3 Performance Engineering Gen5 Procharger Development

[Carbon GTS]

what is the cost? they started 4 days ago and they are almost done with mock up. seems like they are cruising right through it. Other shops have been working on it for 6 months from what i read.. Andy@ AA made a kit for the C7 from scratch in 6 days from start to finish. thats from bracket to IC to blower mounted and tuned.

we are not talking about a complex turbo kit with manifolds and shit. hardest part is fitting and making the bracket that holds the blower.

Yep... I called ProCharger directly around January for a project just like this. They declined basically for the reasons I stated above.

[PaulP]

what is the cost? they started 4 days ago and they are almost done with mock up. seems like they are cruising right through it. Other shops have been working on it for 6 months from what i read.. Andy@ AA made a kit for the C7 from scratch in 6 days from start to finish. thats from bracket to IC to blower mounted and tuned.

we are not talking about a complex turbo kit with manifolds and shit. hardest part is fitting and making the bracket that holds the blower.

How do you know how many people D3 has working on it in house and outsourced? its been a week and D3 is not telling you how many man hrs, shop expenses are going into this and how many parts they have thrown in the trash, they could be close then assemble and it doesn't work then back to the drawing board meaning more R&D costs. I think there doing a great job and really showing what there capable of.

[ViperSmith]

Some people will complain about everything. They'll release a cost when they have it.

[Y'orange_UAE]

what is the cost? they started 4 days ago and they are almost done with mock up. seems like they are cruising right through it. Other shops have been working on it for 6 months from what i read.. Andy@ AA made a kit for the C7 from scratch in 6 days from start to finish. thats from bracket to IC to blower mounted and tuned.

we are not talking about a complex turbo kit with manifolds and shit. hardest part is fitting and making the bracket that holds the blower.

vegasgtr,

what i understand that Andy at A&A working on one car (Corvette) and D3PE working on so many cars with custom fabrication. Which means their project for sure it will not be as fast as Andy at A&A, as D3PE need to finish customers cars + to ensure that their kit comes perfect when we are going to install it in our Vipers

D3PE correct me if i'm wrong.

[vegasgtr]

vegasgtr,

what i understand that Andy at A&A working on one car (Corvette) and D3PE working on so many cars with custom fabrication. Which means their project for sure it will not be as fast as Andy at A&A, as D3PE need to finish customers cars + to ensure that their kit comes perfect when we are going to install it in our Vipers

D3PE correct me if i'm wrong.

Oh no doubt they have other things going and Andy makes kits for the Corvettes. I am not knocking them at all. I was actually praising D3 for how fast they are coming along. Their past investments in all that 3d technology is paying dividends in how quickly they can fabricate a kit for any car.

By no means am i complaining ! I think what the crew is doing is awesome and from what i have heard they do it right.

[Carbon GTS]

No complaining here ! Very impressed with the progress so far. Guess it speaks to the talent at D3

[vegasgtr]

anyone want to guess what it will make on pump gas 93 with a very conservative tune?

Ill say 760whp/640trq @wheels

[Malu59RT]

Evan, I saw y'all are bringing Andy's car for Street Car Takeover in Dallas this weekend. Any chance you guys are bringing James's TT Gen V? I got to see it at TI, but showed up on Sunday and didn't see it run

[Evan@D3PE]

Evan, I saw y'all are bringing Andy's car for Street Car Takeover in Dallas this weekend. Any chance you guys are bringing James's TT Gen V? I got to see it at TI, but showed up on Sunday and didn't see it run

It's not likely the turbo car will be there. Even Andy's is a little bit of a mad dash to get back together in time lol

[moe.basilo]

It's not likely the turbo car will be there. Even Andy's is a little bit of a mad dash to get back together in time lol

Evan, any progress with the build?

[Evan@D3PE]

Evan, any progress with the build?

Car is up in the air with the bumper off and intercooler core and piping here. Hopefully going to keep progressing but the race this weekend has us in a little bit of a scramble with some other projects

[mjorgensen]

Car is up in the air with the bumper off and intercooler core and piping here. Hopefully going to keep progressing but the race this weekend has us in a little bit of a scramble with some other projects

If you can discover additional cooling capabilities while you are working on the intercooler for the GenV you could also capture some business from N/A crowd while you are at it ;-)

[Evan@D3PE]

If you can discover additional cooling capabilities while you are working on the intercooler for the GenV you could also capture some business from N/A crowd while you are at it ;-)

We do a lot of HX stuff for the GM supercharged cars as well as fan shrouds. We're definitely keeping it in mind

[moe.basilo]

Car is up in the air with the bumper off and intercooler core and piping here. Hopefully going to keep progressing but the race this weekend has us in a little bit of a scramble with some other projects

alright evan, good luck in the race this weekend
and looking forward for the build prgoress.

[Evan@D3PE]

Un-related but our race this past weekend went good! Had a couple cars take home trophies and Andy's Viper made a nice and easy 8.3 at 181mph test pass so we're ready for final prep leading up to Texas Invitational in a month!

[Evan@D3PE]

We finally got the rest of the 3D components in, huge thanks to Engatech for helping with the prints since they were so large. We got them onto the car to test fitment and installation, we have noted a couple small changes we need to make in the CAD drawing and we should be ready to have a prototype CNC machined for testing!

[timberwolf]

Being a CAD guy myself, I understand what it takes to make something this complex and precise. Kudos to some gorgeous parts, and a quick turnaround!

We finally got the rest of the 3D components in, huge thanks to Engatech for helping with the prints since they were so large. We got them onto the car to test fitment and installation, we have noted a couple small changes we need to make in the CAD drawing and we should be ready to have a prototype CNC machined for testing!

[Murpowa]

I agree with timberwolf - keep up the great work guys

[Destrukt]

Wow, ViperExchange and D3 is local to me..... what would you do? lol

[donk_316]

wow, viperexchange and d3 is local to me..... What would you do? Lol

both

[LmeaViper]

Perhaps it is the angle of the pics, however is there any interference with the airbox / intake on the current set up?
thks

[Tiago]

it will probably require a custom air box like the GEn3 paxton did.

[timberwolf]

Perhaps it is the angle of the pics, however is there any interference with the airbox / intake on the current set up?
thks

I would imagine both throttle bodies will be plumbed to an intercooler to drop temps after compressing the air. The will probably snake a nice intake pipe off the blower to a cool air source down below since ram air is pointless with this setup. You can put the stock airbox on a shelf like I do with all the other old air boxes and parts from old cars

[FastMatt]

This may force me to buy a gen 5 lol

[G37Sam]

Is it weird that this pic turned me on a little?