Preparation for the STILLEN supercharger

Kyle@STILLEN

Remember...We haven't posted all of our pictures and data yet!

You have some great questions and I think you will be pleasantly surprised by our answers.

1slow370

Thank god somebody finally saw this it's been like 5 freakin pages since the first time I asked it. The vague answer I'll have to live with as i can understand the secrecy especially with all the warring going on

Kyle@STILLEN

No warring going on over here! To be honest, Josh and I are texting back and forth laughing at all the nonsense.

As I said in another thread we wish GTM the best of luck with their supercharger kit. It is always great to have competition. You must remember our company heritage, numerous world championships in many different forms of motorsport...We LOVE competition!!!

1slow370

yeah i'm having a ball about all this as well so long as you guys aren't getting upset. As i said in the GTM thread we love all our vendors/sponsors and don't want to see you guys fighting over anything other than price

Kyle@STILLEN

Look at my avatar...I like to keep things light hearted! LOL

1slow370

and i hope you won't be upset but i'm going to be cutting up my headers and stretching them out to long tubes as currently they are pretty weak what happened there?

Kyle@STILLEN

My engineer's and I talked about that but to be honest I don't remember. I think it's something to do with all of the parts added together they kind of get washed out or something like that...I don't remember for sure though.

1slow370

ok i think the headers may have a benefit(in their stock form) for say a mid-mount turbo or extremely high rpm situations where the short runner length and increased primary diameter would allow the exhaust pressure to plenum out so to speak, seeing as the vast majority of the bends are done and the tube straightens out by the collector i think they have promise as adapted long tubes maybe a future offering you guys could manage as all that is required are extension tubes and a new flange to follow along the cat's path. minimal refixturing and a healthy (possibly) bump in the mid to low end curve.

Edit: you could always call them the Stillen headers Gen. 2

LiquidZ

Stillen, receive your intercooler core yet?

Forgot to mention: I remember somebody asking whether or not the stock strut tower brace on the 370z would fit with the new intake manifold. Any news regarding the issue?

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Kyle@STILLEN

Clearance on the strut tower brace should not be a problem. My engineer's designed it to work with the stock strut brace.

Unfortunately the intercooler will not be arriving until Thursday or Friday. We followed up with our vendor a couple weeks ago and they said "Oh yea, no problem! We're right on track!" Then last week we received different news! We told them to work through the weekend non-stop until they were completed with our prototype. We should be seeing it this week though. If not, I will be making a trip up there myself! LOL.

Kyle@STILLEN

By the way:

I'd like to clear up a misunderstanding. Our explanation of why we chose to go with a new intake manifold only relates to OUR supercharger system. I was trying to explain that we couldn't simply run a Y-pipe design off the back of the blower. Also, because we ran the air-water intercooler system we had to think creatively about getting the intercooler inside the manifold. Which again, is the #1 reason why we rebuilt the manifold. We wanted to get the intercooler inside the manifold.

GTM mounted their supercharger on the bottom of the engine and utilize a front mount air to air intercooler system so they were able to retain the factory intake manifold. We chose to mount our supercharger inside the engine bay and go with an air to water intercooler system.

Kyle@STILLEN

Also,

I don't want to step into GTM's thread again, I don't think it's appropriate for me to be in there...But, I do want to say that the assumptions regarding the mounting locations of our MAF sensors were incorrect. We are not mounting the MAF sensors in the charge pipe. We have decided to go with a draw through sensor. I will have another full explanation as to why we went that route.

RCZ

I'd say that was adequately handled.

Hopefully its the price question we're going to be surprisingly pleased to hear the answer to. Can't wait to see the finished product and some numbers Kyle. It's actually pretty calming to see so much engineering going into something because at least we know you thought about all the issues and there won't be any surprises for us costumers.

1slow370

yay draw through someone is actually using a MAF sensor like it should be. Can't wait to see the divorced IAT sensors I hope you guys can find a fast acting one with a small open thermistor to provide prompt accurate readouts instead of the canned gm ones. At least with the intake charge metering of draw through it will have enough information to be able to calculate the actual amount of air in the manifold without an upgraded MAP sensor (which i would still like to see)

Buddy Revell

Thanks for the clarifications, Kyle.