STS Systems

blackonorange

When my kit comes can I drive it in winter?

tower74

My car runs like a bat out of hell when its cold and it'll run better in the cold. The colder the turbo and/or air that the turbo is taking in the better. You loose HP when the car is hot. It was 28f about 3 days ago and my oil temp never went about 185 (help from oil cooler). Just don't forget to have the water sock on your air filter....or as I do make sure it's on when you know it's going to rain. Kinda sucks parked on the side of the highway puttting it back on because you can see the rain moving in.

blackonorange

What about like super cold minus 30 f lol I live in Canada

tower74

I would say go for it, as long the roads aren't icy.
I am only starting to learn more and more about the whole system but the purpose of the innercooler is to cool down the air. So it being colder than a well diggers ***, which means everything will stay cold. Just don't forget to let your oil temp come up. You don't want to be running it hard with oil that's thick.

blackonorange

Yea it's not like I'm gonna drive it when it's storming out I'm just wondering about boost creep and stuff when it's that cold , I've always to myself not to drive my z in the winter but I can't see my self holding off with 500 whp sitting in the garage lol

tower74

Right. It is kinda hard not to basically live in it. For me, it's the filling up every 3 days that stops that. Hell I've put almost 3000 miles on my car since September and I only put an average over 3000 miles every 6 months.

edub370

ok got a few clips of the sts kit on tower's 370 thought i'd throw em up here since there seems to be very little documented footage of this kit in action. enjoy!

i'm definately no video editing pro but i think this vid will give you guys a decent idea of what this thing is like

STS 370z - YouTube

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blackonorange

God, I can't wait any longer ....

Gunzero

Do wannttttt!!

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tower74

Was wishing it wasn't so windy. At the same time some of these vidoes really doesn't do the system justice. Actually feeling the car pull and the sound is something else. Just like most things, actually feeling it is truely the only way to go. Gotta thank Edub for taking the time to shoot these videos.
All I can say anyone who is looking into buying the system..go for it. No heat issues...it was 65f outside and I ran the piss out of it and the oil temp never went about 220. Water temp stayed at it's usual 1 below half.

edub370

His oil temps after all these vids were cooler than my car was running on the way home

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blackonorange

No oil cooler?

tower74

For me....yeah I got one. He was just saying his was running hotter than mine.

blackonorange

What kind do you have tower?

tower74

Stillen...if you order it from STS it will all come in the same kit. Basically everything I ordered it came from STS. Like I said early I bought the system and had to leave town for about 2 months for work. So I more or less handed over $11,000 and said "I trust you" to a company and shop I had never done business with but it worked out.