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Originally Posted by 1slow370
They already introduced themselves with the 350z and seeing as they never produced a kit for the HR I'm extremly skeptical. Especially when they had a kit out for the camaro less than three months after it's release. When it comes to FI on Nissans the market is turbo biased so the sales aren't going to be that great. Especially since this IS a small numbers car. Look at the last camaro small numbers for it were 30,000 a year that already is 3 times the market we present. when you consider it had years of over 100,000 and even 200,000 a year it makes an application for or cars look ludicrous. Vortech is using your car as an RD source to determine it's costs for a theoretical kit to further define it's sales possibilities. they did the same thing with the HR to a fruitless end. In order for them to produce a kit there would have to be significantly higher demand than there is now. Would it be nice, yes as it adds competition to the market and drives prices down. Is it viable for larger profits simple answer is no. Especially when you consider that all the complexities in the new 370z are going to make the kit harder and more expensive to produce yet the sale point will remain around the price of other vortech kits meaning they will see less return per unit sold than that of kits for other vehicles.
I'll be optimistic for once and say that the vortech unit may be a viable solution as they use primitive pressure regulators instead of ecu tuning to adjust fuel so it may circumvent the complicated ecu that seems to be kicking the tuning companies @**es. Although I can't say I've seen to many 350z vortech cars that haven't thrown out the stuff vortech uses and gotten some other kind of fuel and timing control.
What thread doesn't go off topic eventually because it starts to stale up? Personally I think you're foolishly optimistic. How bout a $1 bet that this kit never sees the light of day? I'll even mail it to you with an apology letter. Hell if it comes out before the end of the year I'll drive it out to your shop.
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I don't think they did the previous kit because it was the end of the model year and they were not sure that Nissan would stick to the DTB design in the next engine to be introduced into the Z.
I do respect your opinion, and everything you've said thus far is something I'm sure the bean counters over at Vortech have all thrown out on the table. I'm sure they have had meetings regarding this. There are so many more factors to consider, which I will not go into at this moment. Originally I started this thread to get feedback from forum members as to what they were looking for in a supercharger, their expectations on price, performance, reliability, etc.
This was not a thread intended to discourage Vortech or any other manufacturer for that matter from building such a kit. In fact I forwarded the link to the Vortech Engineers and they have read through this thread as well as other similar supercharger threads, and at some point will probably chime in with answers to all the critical questions, etc. So, once again, a bit of encouragement, positive input and optimism would be greatly appreciated. Think about it, I know this is a high dollar item, but it's not so different then a hi-end carbon body kit or titanium exhaust, you wouldn't go on those threads, and bet the other forum members, that based on the numbers, the manufacturer wouldn't or shouldn't build them, what does this accomplish? This is for the benefit of the 370Z community, betting me a dollar that they will not build it, does not accomplish that.