General Supercharger Thread

Flex rapidly locks and unlocks the TC hundred times a second until it locks. Supposed to save mpg's. In early tundra's/camry's it caused overheating along with weak damper springs. For me I just removed it from the equation.
**it's only active 3rd-5th up to 15% tps.

 

Bit the bullet, ordered a new TC from Toyota. I'd be pissed if the 143k TC failed after this.

 

How bad was the bite?

 

This is the lowest price for the converter & by ordering out of state no tax & free shipping.

 

Not bad! Almost 50% off orlf a "built" one!

 

Anyone have rough dimensions of the 5.7? Comparing this to a 632 im looking at

 

I might go to the shop today and will measure it if I do.

 

~30" from valve cover outside edge to valve cover outside edge, ~29" from flex-plate to front of oil filter housing, ~27" from bottom of oil pan to top of valve cover without intake installed

 

Guess I can leave the tape measure home.

lol

 

Don't forget to have shop put the black setting bolt in first...thanks to @Wynnded!

 

Yea I noticed this in the videos. I bet this happens often

 

Printed & will bring, any help with the wording on giving it to them? I'd be less than appreciative if a customer told me how to do my job

 

Only reason it’s colored differently is so that when you’re installing the bolts, and you make it all the way around, and reach the black one again, so that you know you torqued all of em. It’s just a dummy mechanism.

 

What? They are assuming I can't count? Thought it was their special failsafe hold all bolt.

 

The bolt is also a different length than the others not sure if that matters.

 

Thinking I'm better off not pissing them off.

 

It just has a shoulder on it to ensure it's aligned. I never paid attention to it.

 

LOL I bricked my ecu again tuning today. I parked in front of my garage so trapped my FJ cruiser in. I needed to go someplace so it turns out that the rear tire on the FJ works really well as a bumper. Put the Tundra in neutral and pushed it out of the way.

Luckily I have a spare ECU so will try the unbricking process now. I had everything setup right too. These 2020/2021s are finnicky.

 

Nooooo! the forum was doing so good not bricking for the last few months

 

That sucks! In the past 2 days I flashed it 3x's...finicky stuff!

 

We had a nice run of no bricked ecu’s too. What’s your method of recovery?

 

Damnit!

 

Damn sorry to hear it!
Any idea why? Voltage dip? Internet drop out on you?

 

it was nice while it lasted

 

I had a huge battery tender on it, new battery, laptop next to wifi, laptop plugged in. What I am guessing is that there is this notice after you tune with hp tuners that says you need to disconnect the battery before doing another tune. I had tuned it once yesterday and once this morning and drove about 50 miles between each but did not disconnect the battery so maybe that’s it.

Brain surgery nearly completed:

 

Ah thats wack, sorry.
I flashed 3 times in one day with 10 min drives in between when I was DEEP into the transmission saga. Should be ok to not disconnect battery even though HPT does advise it.
Maybe a blip in the comms that forced a disconnect. USB is kinda ass.

 

I asked @snivilous if we need to disconnect the battery and he said he never did. I haven't in forever. Anytime it takes a while to process the tune before writting wait until it can process it in a few seconds. I find it'll fail to write or augment null.

 

weird when i was doing my tunes from ott i flashed maybe 3 x and never disconnected the batt

 

Now that we know how to unbrick 2019s and lower using the paper clip method it’s not too terrible. The 2020-2021s just suck since the only way is replacing the ecu.

 

Sorry man, that sucks.