Hello Everybody!

I’m back from the grave here to showcase one of our customers and S2Ki members New Formula Red S2000 sitting pretty on very aggressive(for an S2000 at least!) 17×9 +45 ADVAN RS wheels in silver, with phat Falken rubber, a set up like this will require fender rolling and proper camber adjustment but looks very nice.

I’ll be running a similar set up on my S2000 but with the ADVAN RZ.  If you have any questions on wheel tire set ups for your S2000, please feel free to contact me at jon@vividracing.com

Also please note the center caps are extra when ordering ADVAN wheels.

CHICO

One of our customers brought us over his BMW M3 sedan that he just monsterized for the street.  The car was originally an automatic which he had converted into a 5speed manual.  He then added the Active Autowerkes Turbo Kit to the E36 M3 motor and then added a simple exhaust.  The car runs off the reflashed ECU and puts down a serious punch.  The car made over 300 ft/lbs of torque and 295 rear wheel horsepower on our Mustang “Heartbreaker” dyno!  That is serious power.  An Active Autowerkes E46 M3 supercharged makes about 340 rwhp…  A supercharged 996 Carrera makes 330 rwhp…  A stock Porsche 996TT makes 340 awhp…  Be afraid of this M3!!!

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Love that Vivid Racing Graffiti!

To continue the new style performance shop Vivid Racing has created, we wanted to showoff our logo in a artistic fashion. One of our performance specialist, Sean (sean@vividracing.com), is actually a graffiti artist. This weekend they put up this logo break out piece above the dyno. It was quite a process to watch!  Sorry for the iPhone pics…

Enjoy the pictures…

One of our customers from Illinois sent us a great side shot of his Porsche 997 C2s Cabriolet featuring the HRE P43 monoblock wheels.  The 20×9 and 20×11 inch wheels have a brushed finish and are wrapped with Michelin PS2 tires.  The tires are a 245/30/20 and a 295/25/20 size.  The customer also has some of the new Bilstein PSS10 Damptronic coilovers installed.  Great looking ride!

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Evan Griffey, freelance writer recently did a piece on the Urbanracer.com website about Vivid Racing’s EVO X and the tuning behind it.  Vivid Racing’s long time tuner, Mitch Mckee gave important information on what it takes to tune this beast with the Agency Power GT35R Twin Scroll Turbo Kit.

“The GT35-R is a large frame turbo for a stock 2.0-liter engine,: says Mitch, “so to help try and utilize power faster we opted to go with the twin scroll setup. The twin scroll helps to build boost faster by splitting the turbine housing to optimize exhaust pulses to the turbo more efficiently, as a four cylinder only has one exhaust pulse every 180 degrees. This is one of the perks of the twin scroll on large frame turbo’s is a quick spool time. This turbo achieves full boost by about 47-4800 rpm, which for a 35R is fantastic!”

The Agency Power turbo kit on our EVO X requires many different components including the ECU tuning to maximize its potential.   As a kit, this is the only one on the market which is currently making over 650 all wheel horsepower on the EVO X.  With the combination of fuel components, upgraded intercooler, and the ECU tuning, Vivid Racing has been able to establish itself as a front runner in the EVO X performance market.

“Some of the big hurdles that we had to tackle were a very limited engine management solution for a car that is so new. We used the ECUtek software and it worked wonderfully but there were some problems from the get go. Fuel was the first big hurdle as from the factory anything over 26 we would max out the system on the stock pump. So to tackle this issue we used a Walbro pump and had to modify the housing to make it fit. Once we had a good fuel pump solution we also had to find injectors that would flow enough to handle the GT35-R, which was our upgrade ‘goal’ turbo. Being how the car was only built this year we did not have a whole lot of options so we elected to send out the stock injectors and had them modified to turn them into 800cc units.”

You can read more of this article on the Urbanracer.com TechLab Here.

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