So these pieces are making your kit do what exactly? How much power did the car lose?

So they had to make some pieces thicker because there was a danger that it would fail and now the new pieces are too restrictive? Am I reading this right?

Does that mean that the cars that are out there already, like Shumby's, have cast pieces that are too thin?

No, the pieces out right now are fine, but Sam went back and wanted to improve the design and is doing so. One reason is to maybe help stage 1 kits play better with LTHs, no test done yet as I am waiting on my piece currently also.

Ah ok, so Sam is boring out cast pieces so they flow better...so that can help the stg1 kit make use of the LTH?

I'm not sure where I said they had to make it 'thicker' because it was to thin.

here is how it works...

You create a hand fabricated piece, be it from exhaust piping/aluminium/whatever. You then send it out to get replicated in casted form so the cost is lower than hand crafting it every single time. Well the casting company made it to thick on the inside which is basically choking the compressor. Thats it. Once it gets bored out to the same diameter as the prototype piece everything goes back to normal.

See..that was easy.

Every kit that is out there is 100 % on the car and beaning driving by the customers. there is no cars that are down or have any sort of a safety or driveabilty problem or a check engine light or any thing like that . We did discover a little inconsistency in the intake peace which could lead to a boost taper over 6500 rpm, The rest of the power band is 100 % where is suppose to be . also few customer reported a little excessive flutter from the by pass valve on some vehicles which we are addressing right now . Overall customer are getting these kit, putting them on and driving away .

Sam

You didnt, I'm just trying to figure out whats going on since everyone's been quiet about it lately and I'm curious to see what third party users are getting power wise from this kit.

Thanks for the response. Looking forward to results.

+1

Dreamer and the Baker tuning group in Houston have been kind enough to allows us to see how we can optimize the LTH and the Supercharge kit .

Thank you Matt .

Sam

:tup: Glad to help.

I've got my kit on order Stage 1. I'm doing a base dyno and then doing another dyno after the install. engine has 1200 miles on it.

Disregarding the CARB visual inspection, would stage 1 technically allow the car to pass the emissions portion of the test?

Yes it does .

Sam

The C38-91 is available now?

Im lazy and dont want to search thru the 52 pages here - but how far along are you in your CARB approval? This is a major factor for me. Looking forward to doing more research into your products.

GTM is waiting on the housings and a couple other fabricated pieces.

Thanks Sam, that is perfect. I heard a lot about you guys from Seb at specialtyZ, I am definately going with something GTM when I am going FI.

Yup, SAM and DannyGT pretty much summed it up. That being the case, I'm probably gonna hold off on a full review of the SC kit until I get my bypass valve flutter and intake pipe taken care of. But if anyone wants to see pics of the kit on my car, SAM posted it up on another thread. My car is the IP G37 with the black piping.

Assuming it passes the CARB tests as it stands, this kit allows the emissions monitors to set with no CEL? Meaning the AIR, cat test, evap test, so on an so on, these are needed to pass NYS inspection.

If it passes carb it will probably pass the NYS inspections as CARB is the hardest level to pass currently.

Thats what I was thinking but wasn't positive and that would be one hell of a costly mistake only to realize I have to take it off every year just to pass NYSI

Yeah, you can rest assured that you can pass any emissions testing anywhere in the country if it meets or exceeds the CARB standards.

Bump - How is CARB certification coming? ETA?

Can you please post a version with out that music??

Very interested so far though.

Don't have an exact ETA yet, We had a couple distraction that slow down the process. But it will happen .

Sam

I will see what i can do .

Sam

is this system able to be put on without engine removal?

Yes. This can be installed without removing the engine.

that is what i thought just had to make sure, would love to have one along with everyone else

is it an easy instal as well?

^^^ yes

I heard the G37 they had in the shop with the SC kit on it and it sounds so sexy! It's not loud but it does sound menacing!

Is there a thread somewhere with that (GTM 370Z SUPERCHARGER 550BHP/400 FT OF TORQUE 460 RWHP 360 RWTQ.THE MASTERPIECE, Yellow 370Z) build?

I was wondering about that and the fact that there's no support for them between their end connectors.

Hopefully by the time I finish reading this thread (I'm on page 17 or so) to the end I'll see an answer to this.

This all looks great so far BTW!!!

I'm reading this thread from the beginning and I have to say it's an absolute breath of fresh air so far, compared to the Stillen SC thread.

^^^ nice to see someone doing real research on here. Feel free to drop me a PM if you have any questions abiout the SC i have the 2nd one ever installed.

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Just finished reading all 54 pages.

I was really hoping to see some 1/4 mile times.

It's good see there are no major problems with the GTM SC kit.

It was pretty obvious to me that one of the frequent posters in this thread is very pro-Stillen. :rofl2:

If I wasn't leaving the country on deployment this January I'd very likely be purchasing this GTM SC kit, but it's gonna have to wait till I get back late next year. I'll definitely keep current on this kit in the mean time.

I assume this was referring to the oil filter relocation. You have to remember that the oil filter housing is now stationary on the chassis, so you have to have flex in the lines to allow the engine to move independent of the filter. If you have them mounted too rigidly you would have issues.

Well here it is my first real issue with the GTM SC kit. I have had it for some time now and have 8000 ish miles on it. I am very upset that Sam did not tell me about this issue. I am getting ready to take my summer tires off and put my winters on. Well there is nothing left of my summers. I am so upset right now. If I had knowen that this Kit was going to be so fun to drive and wear off my tires so fast from all the fast starts i do i would never have gotten it. Or i would have went with the stillen kit and not had to worrie about it due to the low power and in some cases not being able to drive it at all. Thanks alot sam now i got to buy new tires.




























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