{"id":522,"date":"2010-09-01T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2013-09-15T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:02:24","slug":"z33-vortech-tune-ditch-the-utec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Z33 Vortech Tune&#8230;.Ditched the UTEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we had a Z33 with a Vortech SC come in for some baseline dyno runs to asses it&#8217;s running condition.\u00a0 Our customer bought it already equipped with the blower and tuning.\u00a0 We were amazed (OK, not so much anymore) how bad the tune was.\u00a0 First of all the map the car was running off the piggyback UTEC wasn&#8217;t even the right one.\u00a0 We put it on the &#8220;right&#8221; map and did another pull.\u00a0 Results shown below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beforew_utec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-523\" title=\"Screwed up!\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beforew_utec.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beforew_utec.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/beforew_utec-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>So the blue run was the way the customer had been driving the Z around.\u00a0 After locating the Utec we set it on the &#8220;right&#8221; map and made another pull shown in green.\u00a0 Needless to say it was horribly off on either setting.\u00a0 We started by ditching the piggyback Utec in favor of our beloved Uprev.\u00a0 This Z had larger injectors and fuel pump which I had to figure out exactly what he had since the owner had no clue.\u00a0 He bought the car from a sand lot used car dealer with all mods installed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-524\" title=\"Before and After\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tune.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tune.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/tune-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s the before and after.\u00a0 Red was on the Utec &#8220;tuned&#8221; map and blue is what we ended up with after we tuned it using Uprev.\u00a0 Safer and more power.\u00a0 290 whp before &amp; 323 whp after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we had a Z33 with a Vortech SC come in for some baseline dyno runs to asses it&#8217;s running condition.\u00a0 Our customer bought it already equipped with the blower and tuning.\u00a0 We were amazed (OK, not so much anymore) how bad the tune was.\u00a0 First of all the map the car was running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-350zg35-z33-v35","category-dyno","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/2378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}