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From NA to Boosted. Bolt-on 130HP to Your Carrera! - 1,437 views

Publishsed by Dan on May 16th, 2011 | Posted in Client Cars, Product Info | 2 Comments »

Having entered the Porsche tuning world in a Porsche 996 Carrera, we needed to go back to the beginning and develop something that would truly take the experience of owning a 996 to the next level. We had 3 main goals when we started this project: Top quality products, strong reliable performance, and a product

Nitrous Express Takes This Corvette Z06 to New Levels - 862 views

Publishsed by Cole Kelly on February 25th, 2011 | Posted in Client Cars | No Comments »

Muscle car owners tend to have one thing in common, the desire to build more horsepower. Our customer brought this yellow 2001 Z06 into our shop to have some power adders installed. The customer went with a K&N intake, B&B Bullet quad tip exhaust, X-Pipe, 1 3/4 long tube headers, CompCams cam and of course,

The 2011 STi Sedan Takes to the Dyno - 1,723 views

Publishsed by Cole Kelly on January 21st, 2011 | Posted in Product Info | No Comments »

One of the most anticipated cars from Subaru is the 2011 STi’s return to a sedan form. Our customer took his STi sedan and added a few Agency Power parts to give his ride a boost in power. The car came to us with the Agency Power catback exhaust, downpipe and intake already installed so

Stock Turbo WRX Wagon Puts Down 240 AWHP - 1,731 views

Publishsed by Dan on July 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | No Comments »

This 2005 Subaru WRX Wagon came to us in need of a tune. It was equipped with an intake, up pipe, turbo back exhaust and an Agency Power unequal length header. On a Stage 2 WRX (turboback exhaust, up pipe and intake) we usually see around 220 AWHP on our Mustang II AWD dyno. Making

STS Twin Turbo Setup on Z06 Corvette - 1,341 views

Publishsed by Cole Kelly on July 1st, 2010 | Posted in Product Info | No Comments »

The Corvette Z06 has respect all by itself. The massive 7.0L LS7 engine is renowned as one of the best engines ever made. But that is not to say there isn’t a way to improve it. STS Turbo is a company that prides itself in producing quality turbo kits for both cars and trucks. This

Subaru WRX Test and Tune at Vivid Racing - 777 views

Publishsed by Cole Kelly on June 14th, 2010 | Posted in Client Cars, Tuning & Tech | No Comments »

Vivid Racing’s employee’s 2004 Subaru WRX took to the dyno to test and tune a prototype WRX throttle body by Agency Power and freshly refinished 17 inch wheels. The car was already equipped with a turbo back exhaust system, up pipe and Agency Power air intake system along with various suspension mods. The new throttle

Vivid Racing Can Tune Your EVO X - 983 views

Publishsed by Dan on May 12th, 2010 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | No Comments »

This car came to us last week with a turboback exhaust, upper and lower intercooler pipes, a front mout intercooler and an intake. When tuning the EVO X, we need to pay special attention to a few different maps inside the ECU.  We need to adjust things such as air fuel ratio, ignition timing, boost, and

Redefining ECU Dyno Tuning in Arizona - 1,546 views

Publishsed by Dan on May 4th, 2010 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | No Comments »

Vivid Racing has spruced up its Dyno facility in Gilbert, Arizona and that includes the ability to tune alot of popular vehicles.  Our in-ground dyno is designed to work with AWD, FWD, or RWD cars.  This dyno has rollers to allow even the longest of diseal trucks to get dyno tuned. Dyno tuning requires experience, expertise, and the

Vivid Racing is now Motec certified!! - 767 views

Publishsed by Dan on April 26th, 2010 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | Comments Off

With years of experience tuning a variety of different ECU’s and being certified to tune a good amount of them out there we added another one, and one of the best!! I spent my weekend in Temecula Ca getting certified in Motec V3 software! For those of you that dont know much about Motec it

2010 EVO X – More Powerful Than Previous Versions - 659 views

Publishsed by Cole Kelly on April 1st, 2010 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | No Comments »

Vivid Racing’s customer brought in his 2010 Mitsubishi EVO X for an Agency Power catback exhaust and the VR Stage 1 ecu tune. The baseline on the graph is actually with the Agency Power exhaust already installed but before the stage 1 tune. The end results of the tune to the wheels: Baseline-260hp 277ft/lbs After

Turning Green with Envy - 486 views

Publishsed by Dan on January 6th, 2010 | Posted in Client Cars, Tuning & Tech | Comments Off

Yesterday I tuned this car and just wanted to share it with everyone. This customer came to us from the east coast and wanted to get some things fixed and we decided to re-tune the car since it didn’t run all that well. Good ole Forced Performance Green Turbo. Modifications: Stock 2.0l FP Green Buschur

New Dyno Run Update on Project BMW 135I - 477 views

Publishsed by Dan on October 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Product Info, Project Cars | No Comments »

We just did a new dyno with the current mods on the car to see how it reacted. It is very nice outside with an ambient temperature of about 80F. The car is running Agency Power Catless Downpipes, Agency Power Exhaust with Ti Tips, Agency Power Intercooler, JB3 ECU, Riss Racing Intake. We run a

Project CLS55 Rocks the Dyno - 451 views

Publishsed by Cole Kelly on October 14th, 2009 | Posted in Project CLS55, Project Cars | No Comments »

Vivid Racing took delivery of its newest project car a few weeks back. With the intention of keeping this a mild build, an exhaust, HRE wheels and the existing Renntech Stage 5 kit is pretty much all that is in store… for now. The exhaust selected is the Meisterschaft GT Racing. With more performance and

Evo 9 on E-85 - 421 views

Publishsed by Dan on September 17th, 2009 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | Comments Off

Today I put an Evo 9 on the dyno to just check to see its power now that it has switched to E-85.  This Evo has been on our dyno before and I help the customer to tune it on regular old 91 pump fuel.  He has since then put some E-85 in the tank

Audi R8 OCT Flash - 417 views

Publishsed by Dan on September 8th, 2009 | Posted in Tuning & Tech | No Comments »

Last week we did some work on an Audi R8 installing the Milltek Exhaust.  Today we got a chance to flash it using OCT and the car gained fantastic power!! As you can see the car gained around 30whp and 30ft/lbs of torque!! Really amazing for a naturally aspirated V8!  The car is a lot

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