Help with ESS Kit on 22 Manual GT PP1?

[TheButterBomber]

Hello all, I’m new to the forums as well as forced induction and would like insight!

As the title says, I have 2022 manual GT PP1 with under 19,000 miles that I daily. I’m planning on adding a little more pep in its step by adding an ESS blower. My intentions are to get a Lund tune with the G2 blower, G3 intercooler, gt500 injectors, dw415 fuel pump, and the 125mm pulley (7psi) to keep it on the safer side. Especially for the manual transmission.

I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews doing the crank sprocket and oil pump gears, and am wondering if I will have to/should? Also are there other things I could do to prevent failures besides the CS and OPG? Is there an Mt82 bulletproofing kit? I’m planning on staying under 700hp, and I naturally stay under 6,500 rpm when ripping it. By all means I don’t mind doing the work/I have the resources to do these jobs. But is it overkill? What things should I worry about/beef up?

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[daSNAK3]

I wouldn’t touch the OPG & CS especially staying at 7psi on a G2.

Calimer seems to do a lot of these transmissions but you’ll probably be fine at such a low boost level and small blower. I’m still running my stock MT-82 so haven’t dug into all that yet.

If you’re not trying to launch the car from a dig, install the kit and enjoy. You should be plenty fine for quite a while with how you say you’ll drive it.

 

[Wolfys11]

Gen3 coyotes seem to have a better opg, stay off any type of 2step and dont bang off the rev limiter, keep a stock 7500rpm redline and it should hold up just fine on 93 power.

Tranny wise your clutch is gonna need an upgrade but stock will hold up and just start to spin at high rpm based off what i can feel on my own setup, then again your running lower psi so maybe even that isnt necessary

Mt82 can be broken at stock power levels unboosted, just shift like a normal human and not like someone who is racing with 20k$ on the line, she will be fine. Like said previously calimer builds them but for 650whp area if you shift normally its fine

Beefing it up really depends on goals, if its just a street roll racer for fun, it will hold up fine. However if you want to powershift, go on e85 or meth, dig race, it gets alot more logical to beef alot of things up

 

[NGOT8R]

@TheButterBomber I sent you a PM.

 

[Pistol_91]

My stock OPGs and MT/clutch seem to be holding up. G3 120mm e85. Been on it about a year now

 

[TheButterBomber]

My stock OPGs and MT/clutch seem to be holding up. G3 120mm e85. Been on it about a year now

Do you daily drive it?
Also what are your thoughts on the G3 with the 120? I’m starting to to debate the G2/G3 as well as the 120/125 but again want to keep it on the safer side for a daily.

 

[Pistol_91]

Do you daily drive it?
Also what are your thoughts on the G3 with the 120? I’m starting to to debate the G2/G3 as well as the 120/125 but again want to keep it on the safer side for a daily.

No, I do not anymore. I personally think a G3 with a 120 or even 125 pulley is a great start and have more room to grow compared to the G2.

 

[Wolfys11]

Do you daily drive it?
Also what are your thoughts on the G3 with the 120? I’m starting to to debate the G2/G3 as well as the 120/125 but again want to keep it on the safer side for a daily.

G3 with 120mm on 93 is pretty safe and reliable, of course you have to make sure its not crappy 93 but otherwise pretty safe. If theres even a 1% chance you want to upgrade, get a g3 or even a g3x, its a minor cost to start higher but it will safe the headaches later to swap units

Ive driven my setup for over a year now all year even now in the snow, wengerd tuned, zero issues and i drive it pretty hard in the streets

 

[daSNAK3]

I run the G3 w/ 100mm. Stock OPG, stock transmission, stock clutch still (no issues yet). I ran the 120mm for the first bad year or so, then switched to the 110 for a short time and then the 100mm… I have almost 20k miles boosted now.

You’ll be just fine with the G3 and 120mm pulley. Doesn’t sound like you’ll be beating the hell out of the car so I wouldn’t worry at all.

 

[Wolfys11]

I run the G3 w/ 100mm. Stock OPG, stock transmission, stock clutch still (no issues yet). I ran the 120mm for the first bad year or so, then switched to the 110 for a short time and then the 100mm… I have almost 20k miles boosted now.

You’ll be just fine with the G3 and 120mm pulley. Doesn’t sound like you’ll be beating the hell out of the car so I wouldn’t worry at all.

Stock clutch at 850ish whp? You dont notice any slip or seen an issue on a dyno?

I forget who it was, but someone on the ess forum dynod 640whp stock clutch 120mm and then got to 680whp on same setup just with a clutch, supposedly it was slipping a little bit on the top end

 

[daSNAK3]

Stock clutch at 850ish whp? You dont notice any slip or seen an issue on a dyno?

I forget who it was, but someone on the ess forum dynod 640whp stock clutch 120mm and then got to 680whp on same setup just with a clutch, supposedly it was slipping a little bit on the top end

I haven’t went back to a dyno since being on 93 and 120mm. I don’t notice any issues so far. It doesn’t fall off or seem to lose momentum from the couple of dragy pulls I’ve done. I’m sure I’m on borrowed time now but I feel like it would probably of lasted forever on the 120 pulley. I also don’t beat the ever loving shit out of the car though, I’m sure if you’re out there drag racing all the time then it won’t last.

 

[Justgonna send it]

Do you daily drive it?
Also what are your thoughts on the G3 with the 120? I’m starting to to debate the G2/G3 as well as the 120/125 but again want to keep it on the safer side for a daily.

trust me i was in the same boat your in, spend the extra 500$ or so for up graded g3 head unit, buy once cry once and youll make more power with the same size pulley cause your flowing more cfms

 

[15gtmagnetic]

You're going to want more power it's inevitable once you go on the boost!!!

 

[stannypack]

My approach was pretty much identical to yours. Just wanted my 22 GT to be a fun reliable daily driver with a goal of 600 whp so I went with G2+125mm. Since I never shift at redline I skipped CS/OPG, and upgraded to GT500 injectors and vortech BAP; pretty you don't need the fuel pump.

If you don't launch it then you shouldn't have to worry about axles/driveshaft but I do plan to get a stage 1 vengeance clutch to have in case/when mine takes a dump.

After doing my research it seemed like cats could get fried even NA (and since I wanted more noise win win) so I did do 2M cat deletes.

 

[Justgonna send it]

I’m running a vengeance stg1 clutch now. And Love it.

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