Reliability of Vortech kits for daily driver

[danny04GT]

I was considering getting a Mongoose Vortech kit for my car. I live in Phoenix and it will be 110 degrees + most of the summer. I drive about 35 miles each way to work (highway) and already have 72k miles on my car.

Any thoughts on reliability for this? I dont plan on taking the car to the track or anything, so I would keep it fairly conservative.

 

[xAchillesx]

3 years at 400rwhp, and not a problem yet. 85k on the clock. DO IT!!!
Seriously though the tune makes it. You will be just fine.

 

[the98stang]

Do a compression test first to make sure the engine is still healthy. If you have compression I say go for it. That heat is going to suck @ss though. I would definitely use an intercooler in that kind of heat.

 

[01BlkGT]

Yea in that heat any tune is going to absolutely kill timing and dump fuel to prevent pre-detonation. For sure add in a cost of an i/c. During the summer months, I can for sure tell a huge difference how the car is behaving just in our typical 100* weather, but for me I don't care b/c I have the a/c on and will rarely be going over 2500k rpms anyways. Otherwise, 40k miles on my Mongoose kit so far and still going strong (was trapping 114mph few months ago).

 

[2002whitegt]

I got around 60k and 6 years on my Vortech here in Houston, TX.

If the engine is fine I say go with it.

 

[danny04GT]

I searched and found a few older posts about buying ebay kits for a diy Intercooler. Is that still the best/cheapest way of doing it ?

 

[01BlkGT]

Yep.......

 

[DBMSTNG]

about 13k miles on mine, no issues.

 

[BennyBlown2v]

Never had a problem with mine - but some V2 SQ's have had seal/bearing/leak issues, but it seems to be isolated to models made last year.