Another GTM Convert: GTM Supercharged G37
 

It was going to be a long bumpy journey for Eric when he decided to supercharge his Infiniti G37. Little did he know that he was an early adopter of a new supercharger kit that came on the market. After month and months of multiple tunes and custom dyno tuning sessions, Eric decided to leave the kit for dead and see the light.

To be honest, we were excited and concerned at the same time. We were excited in the sense that this would be a great opportunity for us to digest a competitor's system since, in our opinion, there was very little technical information available to the public. Also, by switching systems, we were able to get direct customer feedback and back to back comparison between the two systems. Our concern was "how bad could it be?". Maybe it was not the kit, maybe it was the car, or maybe the customer is just difficult to please. Also, the customer was told that his car was the problem and not the kit. We thought it would be interesting and challenging to take on this conversion and even told the customer that in the event that our kit does not perform in ALL aspects like we said it would (power, driveability, power delivery, and overall performance), we would take it off of his car at no charge whatsoever.

Eric found that to be a win/win proposition and took us up on our offer.

Fast forward, and the car was dropped off at our facility. Our first plan was to completely verify and validate the customer's complaint with the system. We did in fact validate them in all aspects. The next step was to spend the time and diagnose the car to isolate the problem at hand. The last thing we want to do is remove a kit, install a different kit and still have the same driveability issues Eric was complaining about. We spent about a week dyno testing (we noticed that we could not get an accurate AFR reading due to the HKS muffler design so we decided to install an 02 sensor bung before the cats for more accurate readings and found AFR's in the high 13's under boost), logging, driving around with our knock ears (hearing massive amounts of detonation to our surprise and we're amazed that the car didn't seem to have incurred any internal engine damage), checking every sensor operation, and finally felt comfortable that this car will perform very well with our system.

We proceeded with removing the supercharger kit that was installed by an Infiniti dealership. We were rather disappointed with the quality of the installation that came from a dealership. A lot of pictures were provided to Eric to share at his discretion.

Our kit was installed, the car was tuned conservatively (due to the aforementioned lean running and detonation with the previous kit), test driven, and delivered as promised.

We were relieved that we didn't have to take our kit back off of the car, because there was absolutely nothing wrong with Eric's car and it drives like a raped ape. :happydance:

Before

Customer Provided Dyno Graph (with other supercharger kit)

After GTM Supercharger Install Dyno Graph

Looks Clean!

i was already sold but this certainly confirms it...

lol dang...nice upgrade :)

These two kits are worlds apart. Im loving the GTM kit. Dont do what I did and waste your money on other sc kits.

Hey Sam, is that my black vert in the pic? Damn I miss that car!!

Nice job Sam!

Now get that stage II kit out!! :tup:

I'd be interested to see the pics of the removal but I understand why they would be kept private. I am just curious as to what was not right with the install.

I think its terrible that stillen told Eric that his car was the problem instead of their shitty kit. Thats not going to make the customer feel any better about the situation. Sam great work, the kit/numbers look spot on

Signed,
Future stg.2 owner

i want to thank Sam@GTM and his crew for doing such an beautiful job reforming it back to it's stock form, i couldn't ask for more. i bet it wasn't the easiest thing to do and i really appreciate you helping me out when i loss all hope. thank you! the car is currently running fantastic with lot's more power especially at the low end. it's definately worth the switch in my opinion and should've went with GTM from the beginning. hopefully nobody has to go through what i had to. i pretty much sold all my mods for this switch cuz i was getting very desperate and i feel my engine won't last much longer if i don't take any actions now. it's alright! hard lesson learned!

for anybody that's thinking about going F.I go GTM!!!

Very nice!

Sam, good sh!t. I tip my hat.

I second that :tiphat:

wow probs to GTM

/rawr

Sam - you're the man bro! Haters hate, until **** like this drops on them like a ton of bricks.

wow gtm sc is looking better & better for my build

Epic behavior...Sam is winning.

Congrats dude!

Congrats Eric I am happy for you what big difference in power man.

Wow picked up tons of power under the curve. I bet it's a completely different animal now. Must......fight....urge....to.....buy......SC

Yeah, this kit is night and day difference from the sound to the power. GTM S/C is a win win kit. For those who is trying to compare the 2 no need to look any further. GTM S/C is the one for you

GTM holdin' it down!

Can't wait to get a hold of mine!

Winning anyone? Sam does not live in the middle. Thats where you get slaughtered, thats where you get embarrased.

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RUBUTTAL (Stillen fans) ?????

congrat on the new setup, glad you like it

Just curious, but what appeared to be the bottleneck in the Stillen system? Are they different blowers? Different pully sizes/boost output?

That's a big difference in performance.

or was it mainly just poor placement of the O2's for tuning?

from the Stillen uglyness to this beauty now. looks so much better!

http://i56.tinypic.com/12574nr.jpg

Nice strut bar and engine cover.

thanks, i wrapped it with 3m di noc this morning. let's see if that'll warp in the heat

very nice engine bay.

here's another one.

http://i53.tinypic.com/69fawy.jpg

I'm starting to here alot about this stuff. Is it easy to work with?

hows the power response?

yes! it's very easy, you can use a blow dryer to heat it up a little when you go around curves.

oh man, it's night and day difference when it comes to response. the car will just take off at very low rpm range.

That does look sharp. I can see it much better in this picture than the one you texted me. Good Job. I don't know if I have the patience to do something like that!

ahhhhh, sounds like you're getting old hahahaha.:stirthepot:

No getting about it, I think I already got old LOL! :happydance:

= Boner.

wow congrats with the clean setup!

Those picture sucks! I'm gonna take more later on the day with better lighting.

congrat on that :)
post up some videos if you can

A poor photographer blames the lighting. :tiphat: