Preparation for the STILLEN supercharger

VTalumni

I could be wrong, but I think he said something like it will come with a base tune that will satisfy 95% of the customers.

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Rickey89

suscribed for updates

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spearfish25

Why don't you guys 'test drive' that car up to Chicago so I can check it out

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LiquidZ

Stillen, any intentions of testing the S/C kit on some sort of road course to see how well the engine and kit handle the stress?

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Josh@STILLEN

I can guarantee you we'll have supercharged 370Z's out on the track.. a definite plan for STILLEN in 2010..

roplusbee

VTalumni:
Thanks for the clarification. I think I missed the post that detailed that info.

Stillen:
Will the kit include an ECU or some sort of ECU reflash? That is really the only thing that concerns me at this point.

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LiquidZ

Stillen has mentioned they are working on providing a hand held tuner with their kit.

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G Fo12ce

Will this kit be "for off road use only" or will it go through the CARB/street legal process?

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LiquidZ

Stillen will offer different stages. At least one of those will be CARB legal, and it will probably be the stage producing the least power.

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Kyle@STILLEN

It is our goal to achieve CARB legality and we have already been in contact with a testing lab that has tested numerous other products for us. All of which have passed with flying colors.

shabarivas

So you expect the STAGE1 kit to be carb ok correct? This is awesome news for us who live in Cali etc

Will be saving the moneys until you guys get this thing out

StillenZ

KYLE - I know that similar questions have been asked a bunch by now, but I am hoping you can answer this specifically for my application:

I have the cat-back exhaust, the headers and the C/A intake from stillen and I let my dealer talk me out of the HFC's. You have already made it sound like the headers may have not been a good purchase if I was going the S/C route with my car (Kinda wishin' I woulda held out for the FI. LTH's!!), but either way:

Can you please tell me what your thoughts are on whether or not I should invest in the HFC's to be prepared for the S/C or should I just hold off?

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Kyle@STILLEN

This question actually brings up multiple other questions and answers. This post will be a bit wordy but I will try to keep my answer as short as possible.

First Question: I currently have headers, intake and exhaust, should I invest in high flow cats to be prepared for the supercharger?

First Answer: The combination of these four parts will cause you to run a little bit lean so NO I do not recommend getting the high flow cats in the mean time. I recommend holding off for a bit and waiting for the supercharger. The good thing about the high flow cats is that if you purchase them at the same time as the supercharger, the install shop will probably give you a pretty good deal on the package install since the cats are fairly easy to install.

Second Question: I'm not worried about running too lean with the combination of the intake, headers, exhaust, and high flow cats as I can just get a tune from ACME engineering (yes, that is a fake name, fill in whatever name you want) and that will fix my lean issue!

Second Answer: At this time I do not recommend getting a custom tune done to the car unless you plan on doing your own tuning on the supercharger kit later on. It is my understanding that the current tuner's on the market do not keep your factory tune in place. So, if you tune your car today then you lose your base (factory) map for our tuners later on. This could mean a lot more work later on down the road. Unless there is a tuner available that will remove your factory tuning and then install a custom tune which you can remove later on and replace with the factory tune again, I would recommend holding off on custom tuning.

If I am incorrect about the current offerings for tuning then please let me know and I will edit my post to reflect the correct information.

If you already have headers on your car I wouldn't be bummed or upset about that. I'm just reporting what I've seen in the past with our VQ35 supercharger but this supercharger might be very different. I know the VK56 supercharger that we have for the Nissan Titan and QX56 LOVES the headers...There is still a lot of testing and to be done yet! Don't worry about the small details.

RCZ

Kyle, you must be referring to the info I gave Josh. You are half right about the tune. The problem only relates to the UpRev software. You can save your stock tune and throw it on there as one of the selectable maps you can cycle through. However, for some "unknown" reason, UpRev decided they wouldnt create the file necessary to fully remove their software from the car. I have no idea how this is going to affect tuning the car for the supercharger... UpRev needs to release an update for us who need to remove it.

Kyle@STILLEN

Thank you very much for the clarification RCZ!