Hope Alison doesn’t have Covid and recovers quickly from whatever she has. The 4 wheel kit looks great! I definitely like the venom wheels over the niche. If you need a place te crash I got room for you. Albeit a bit of a drive. But I know how much you love a good 12hr road trip. 😉
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Kyle D that's great, I wasn't aware there was an aftermarket builder so close, I'm all for supporting our local community and hope we can work together some day! I would love to pay you a visit sometime.
Let me know when you have some free time and I can give you the 10 cent tour of the shop. You can reach out here or the best way is to email me. My direct email is kyle@zzperformance.com
Welcome back Kip ! Let me know if you end up picking up the Slingshot line over there. I have a pretty good dealership program for mods. Our shop is also only about 20min away from you in Wyoming on 28th just West of Byron Center Rd. Congrats on the new job and being able to get back into the Motorsports industry!
You can find our mounts here https://zzperformance.com/prod…os=1&_sid=24fb0e99a&_ss=r If you have any questions feel free to reach out.
While I’m sorry to see a failure like this in the pics that were posted, if the case broke while driving normally as the guy stated, then you would have to ask what else is going on with the vehicle? The pinion brace is not invincible,it’s just something that helps which is how we market it. We make no claims of it being an end all solution which is what I think a lot of people assume. Furthermore, if there is going to be a failure in a circumstance when there should not be, like driving normal around the corner, then clearly something else was wrong like not enough or no fluid in the angle drive. Or possibly his case was already cracked when installed. The pics that have been posted do not show a lot of gear oil around the area. I’ve seen a couple of these explode first hand and it’s taken 4-5 cans of brake clean to get the majority off. Maybe it was cleaned before the pics were taken, I don’t know. However, if you look at the pic, the brace actually did it’s job and held the yoke together where the majority of the failures happen. The other pic posted where the whole gear is missing looks like once the initial pics were taken, they removed the drive and beat the hole bigger since it was already wasted at that point anyway. Just my 2 cents.
You'll need to remove the plastic covering the steering column. There is two T40 torx bolts holding them together. There are two more T40 torx holding the upper piece to the cluster itself. Once you remove those you can reach back there and unplug the cluster. There is a plug connected to the speedo and another to the tach. Both are labeled so you do not get them confused when reinstalling.
And you get PAID to do that?
There's definitely worse jobs to be had that's for sure.
If you guys are having a hard time getting the air out, pick up one of these, we have been using them for years, never have had any issues with getting air out of the system -
That's pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.
Finally had time to finish my engine and Haltech setup. Pretty happy with how it turned out aesthetically overall. The charge pipes are powder coated but everything else that is black I used cerakote on. I did all the powder and cerakote myself here at ZZP. I also added a new boost reference fuel system. Put in a massive AEM in tank pump in, ran -8 line up front to our new billet fuel rail holding new 120# injectors and going to a -6 return line which flows through a flex fuel sensor so I can now run gasoline, ethanol, our in house blended race fuel, or a mixture of any of it. It's nice not being confined anymore to only being able to go about 40 miles away and carrying a 5 gal can of fuel with me just in case I run out. I made all of the fuel lines also since it was all custom lengths and angles. I also added a small dry shot of nitrous which makes it spool faster.
We've been working on Ecotecs since 2004. We run Dexcool in all of our builds across all 6 of the platforms we support and have not had any issues. The only time we use standard green coolant is in our supercharged builds. We typically run dexcool in the engine, and green coolant going into the heat exchanger cooling the charge temp of the blower. We do this so if you develop a coolant leak in one of the 2 systems, you know exactly which system has a leak. But you could swap it also and run green in the engine and dexcool through the heat exchanger.
They can be hard to get the air out sometimes. One thing I do anytime I am doing a coolant fill on an empty engine is pull the upper rad hose and fill the block first and then the coolant bottle. That works extremely well to usually circumnavigate that issue completely most of the time.
Where would this have to be done?
Thanks for all the info!
Bill
No problem. We would do it here in Wyoming Michigan at our shop. I've installed them on 3 customer builds and also on my own. Below are some pics of the unit. The $1900 I mentioned is the first pic. You get the ECU and the plug n play harness. There are also options you can add on like a flex fuel sensor if you want to run E85 but that is typically more appealing to the guys with turbos and superchargers. You can also add a digital dash like in the other pic but that adds an additional $880 to the cost and they take a while to install as there is a decent amount of wiring and pinning that is needed. But again, you definitely can run the ECU with your stock cluster and that is not an issue at all.
What exactly would this get me?
Bill
It replaces the factory ECU with a stand alone ECU and comes with a plug and play harness specifically for the slingshot. It will still work with your factory cluster. You do however lose traction control and cruise control. However, it sounds like getting cruise control back may be something that happens next year in an update. You have way more control over the tuning. The initial tuning would need to be done after the install. However, after that, you can data log and remote tune someone from anywhere on the planet emailing files back and forth. They seem to run a lot better and it gets rid of a lot of the "personality quirks" that come along with the slingshot.
You do have one option to take the Dealer out of the picture, if you want to go down that route, and remove the stock ECU. This would take almost all issues off of them, and you just do the repairs yourself, or find a local garage that can handle it. No more being locked into their setup.
DDM or ZZP could help with this, ZZP being closer to you. Kyle D what do you think?
We can definitely handle any needed repairs. Even when we tune the PCM, we still can't do certain things like activate the ABS module. There are a few things that still require digital wrench but as far as accessing, diagnosing, and clearing codes we can do all of that with one of our tuned PCMs. The other option is to install a Haltech PCM but you're looking at $1900 just in parts for that.
The hose in the pic below is the only spot that has constant coolant flow prior to the thermostat opening up. You can put it in the upper hose and it will be accurate once you're up and running but will be slow to respond initially.
Like other's have said, kev is definitely not a scammer. I've worked with him a lot over the last few years. He was ZZP's biggest supporter when we first entered the market a few years ago and moved a lot of turbo kits for me. I've bought a few things from him and service has always been great. I honestly think the COVID pandemic is playing into this heavily. He operates out of Canada for the most part and most things are drop shipped aside from the products he makes personally. As a fellow manufacturer, I can say that we are struggling as a company to keep up with demand. People are still spending money and the pandemic hasn't seemed to affect that side of the business much but from a manufacturing side there are a lot of issues. Especially with a LOT of the suppliers we use for materials are here in MI and the majority were forced to shut down for 6 weeks when the pandemic first hit. Since then, trying to get regular shipments of materials for manufacturing has been nothing short of difficult. I don't know what top you ordered but I would imagine that if it was one that Kevin makes himself, it will take some time. Talking with other Canadian friends, it sounds like things are moving pretty slow on that side of the border. Our shipments going into Canada which normally take 2-5 business days are taking weeks in some cases. I would imagine parts coming over to us are not getting through much quicker.
I personally think that contacting the consumer affairs section of the Michigan Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau to ask for an investigation/intervention is going a little extreme. Especially with the country in the state that it is in and as you can see, there isn't anyone else here saying anything negative about him. He could stand to communicate better with you I will give you that. However, I'm sure he has a lot going on on his side trying to navigate his way through all of this as a one man show. If you are on FaceBook, try reaching out to him via FB messenger. That is how I communicate with him the majority of the time and it seems to work best. That is all just my 2 cents but I would vouch for Kevin being a stand up business guy any time.
I am not sure what I am going to bring yet. I really don't want to bring shirts and stickers and have to sit in the sun all day. I believe we are a large enough group that we can find each other. I don't do well in hot weather. I plump up like dough set out to rise.
I don't see what would be wrong with just leaving free cards and stickers at a few of the vendors booths and just let everyone have what they want.
I will be hauling ass over the skyway one day and over to the gap another day. So whoever wants to tag along can,,, Ill make sure I keep a good distance between me an the next slingshot so the Covid doesn't jump on me.
Feel free to leave anything you want at my booth.
I'll be on flex fuel by then so I can start on my Grey Goose Race Juice and switch to civilian fuel at one of the stations in the hills.That way I don't have to bring a 55gal drum of fuel and a 5gal can in shotgun to refuel. I barely made it back to the grounds last year after our trip over the skyway.
You may want to check the side of your block for a new window. Your oil pressure looks a tad low. 
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Hope to see you in Maggie Mitch!
The clutch grabs right off the floor as soon as you release the pedal. And I mean GRAB! It's really clear how much the OEM clutch was slipping. I'm getting the full power of the engine and the turbo - its stunning 😍 I'm going to need several hundred miles just to relearn how to drive this "New Ruby".
Once you drive it around a little more and all of the air gets worked out the pedal will get a little higher and it'll be a little less grabby.
