Thread: Good info?

Originally Posted by BillBoost37

Plenty of guys on that site did Gen V/N* only swaps and dyno'd before and after. They came up with reasonable gains (more than the paper 8hp) for the money at the time. Which was in the range of $500 a few years ago.

If you want to believe his post, I'd suggest going and pulling that information together yourself to confirm it. The guy lacks a lot of credibilbilty on most sites based on falsfied information like time slips etc. There is a reasonable amount of information available from places that have SC dyno's. Most would agree that actual results are a better measure than desktop calculting. Heck a few years back I read something similar when a guy was trying to prove out that the Gen 3 M62 was comparable to the Gen 3 M90. He used much of the same graphs etc.

Many times things can look or seem as one would like if you put the right spin on it. Flake went to school for marketing or communication, surely he learned how to put the message he wanted out there. However, why would you try to prove that a Gen V is no better than a Gen 3? Makes little sense other than his typical "screw with people and provide misinformation", which he said to me in person was his goal. (Couple years back) Up to you if you want to believe a guy who is banned off most forums, has been proven wrong by 3800 vendors, aims to cause drama on 3800 and non 3800 forums and has been proven to lie often. All he's ever done is made the 3800 community look bad on other forums and proved that a newer $1800 TVS blower could be more efficient than a $300 Gen V.

I'd be searching on my own for the proof of his claims and dyno results from actual charger only swaps.

I won't disagree with the rest of your post. However, your first paragraph is not correct. Well, maybe it is, but, if people are seeing huge gains while they are still running big pullies, the tests are flawed (less than one uncontrolled agent). The gains are incredibly minute with larger pulley sizes. The 2.x pulley sizes is where the Gen V really starts to show gains.

Originally Posted by coolone

First off... I believe the mumbo jumbo in that post is all smoke n mirrors to begin with.

Although I won't make fancy flow charts or formulas to back my knowledge. It's a cumulative thing from talking, reading and more. If the OP of that post wants to legitimize his thesis, then he should hook up the S/C to flow tests and the vehicles to dyno's to show ACTUAL numbers.


That said, it's well known the GenV upgrade is not that much really and the cost/gain crossover makes it a mod that you'd most likely do as you're running out of mods that squeeze the very last smidgin of HP out of the engine or the smallest pulley size possible. I'd rather just put an Intercooler in than swap the S/C as the cost/gain is much higher. Just my opinion.





All that post is a rehash of something already known, trying to make it his own.

You realize those are compressor maps, right? He didn't make those.

Originally Posted by TLSheff

Same cycle every... 6 months? give or take. It just comes back around as always.

What is this 6th gen he is referring to btw? Eaton only shows a 5th Gen roots, and a TVS roots... he did the TVS and it was "glorious" and way over budgeted... so what is a 6th Gen?

6th gen is the TVS.

My first paragraph, or sentance isn't wrong. It states that guys saw enough of a gain to do the mod. Likely someone said, "I'm going to try it, looks like a bolt on." Others probably said, the same type of thing that was said to Slo Flake, doubting it's gains. At the end of the day, the found a gain they were willing to pay for. That's exactly what I said.

Slo Juice is willing to take anything out of context or search years back to give me crap. That's fine. He's still pouting into his Hello Kitty Drama pillow because after he told me he had swapped transmissions in his car (in 2 hours flat BTW...lol) he proceeded to dump 7+ quarts of trans fluid on the floor and tell me he's never dropped a pan before. Yes, I joked around and laughed at him. He and his "buddy" stopped over and asked for room in the garage during a major build to change balljoints. They said they could do it w/o help. I ended up drilling them out and doing the job, literally somehow they couldn't. I was pissy with him about his intrusion when I was busy. He says I don't charge fair rates for work, funny part of that is....he's the reason I charge. Promises of helping a buddy out and never doing so... he can pout into his drama pillow all day. Know what I'm saying?

PS, I still question where he got his data. Because most of the stuff Eaton has on their site as Gen V, isn't our Gen V. If you notice, he avoids direct questions most of the time. Skips right over, causes a little drama to mask the lack of answers.

Anyone wanna grab a beer & talk about something else?

I understand Bill. I'm not trying to back him by any means. Him and I used to go rounds all day on clubgp back when the stories he told were far stretched.

It's all good GTP, just know that you are starting to get known in by some as GTPSho lol... I kid.

Let's go drink some beers, cause it would take some proof for me to believe anything that comes from his keyboard or mouth.

Originally Posted by GTPpower

6th gen is the TVS.

That was my thought but the way I read his post VVV made me question if I was missing something.

The TVS is a substantial investment... relatively speaking.
With that said... it's not even in the same world as the m90 blowers.

Hopefully in the near future people can afford to swap the 6th gen blowers on 3800 motors. We would see some very impressive roots blower numbers on the ole' 3.8.

Spoiler alert: It's happening right now

We all know he did the TVS and considering it was a $1800 project it didn't yield substantial gains to match the cost. A turbo build would cost about the same with alot more power increase, which is why the ol' Paxton Novi setup went bye bye.

Originally Posted by TLSheff

That was my thought but the way I read his post VVV made me question if I was missing something.


We all know he did the TVS and considering it was a $1800 project it didn't yield substantial gains to match the cost. A turbo build would cost about the same with alot more power increase, which is why the ol' Paxton Novi setup went bye bye.

From what I was told, he made money selling the TVS setup compared to what he paid for it and now is turbo making crazy power. To each their own I guess. Me, I'm throwing heads and an IC on my current setup and hope to make 330whp on 93 with the help of a smaller pulley of course.

Chris..heads are amazing for our engines. Once you have a bunch of other mods, it's the one spot that holds us back from processing more air through the motor.