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Stillen's presence on the forum that I have seen is polite/professional.

My thought is that my and other's angst is stirred because of consistantly low dyno numbers from those with the Stillen SC, as well as the issues Stillen had with bringing the SC to the market. It appeared to me, an outside observer, that the whole thing was very hap-hazard and had serious issues regarding the tune that weren't corrected before it hit the market. The way people rip on Nissan for not having an Oil Cooler on the NISMO from the factory, this is 10X worse in my opinion. The whole "No 2 cars are the same" thing is certainly true, but Diablo and LS1Edit and Predator and all of those canned tunes seem to have no issues improving stock tunes across the board. Stillen shouldn't, either. Maybe (probably is) there is something I don't know, but I always heard Stillen was good, quality, expensive-but you see where your money went- type stuff. This SC kit has not struck me as such. The hardware looks great. The implementation, not so much. I sure as hell wouldn't pay that much for what amounts to a 100whp* increase on a stock car when there are other options available.

*Backed up by track times and dyno numbers I have seen for the setup with a standard pulley.