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Originally Posted by Phimosis I think the 370z is drawing a different target audience. I would have never bought a 350z. The 370z is lower, wider, shorter and has bigger

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Old 06-28-2009, 02:42 PM   #16 (permalink)
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I think the 370z is drawing a different target audience. I would have never bought a 350z. The 370z is lower, wider, shorter and has bigger tires, more power, more upscale interior, and is a higher priced fully optioned car yet more track oriented. The 370z is pulling Corvette buyers, Cayman buyers, 911 buyers, M3 buyers, RS4 buyers, GTR buyers. It's a different crowd...
As much as i hate to admit this, but Phimosis is correct and hit the nail on the head with that statement. As an owner of both a modded Viper GTS & 900HP single turbo MKIV Supra... there really isn't/wasn't any import sportscar out there out recently that was a blip on my jaded radar* But this new 370, address all the faults of the more refined second gen 350's with the HR motor, improves on everything else significantly, all while being lighter and having more of everything. It newer styling along with its refinement makes it a great buy and value at the price point i've seen local dealers selling it for. Very great value* It WILL be stealing a few porsche, vette and BMW buyers...
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Great news that Greddy is jumping into the 370z FI fray! They had a pretty good kit for the 350z/G35 so I would expect nothing less for the 370.

I noticed a shot of Greddys new Ti-C exhaust as well...sexy

Dual 2.75" !!

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The new gen Nissan motors response to well to twin turbo setups, I think this will be the FI of choice moving forward. Superchargers, frankly, just aren't that exciting on small displacement engines, and will never offer the shear power and overall performance benifits of a properly spec'ed TT setup. Of course, they will be priced lower, than TT's but that is the only benefit I see.
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Huh? The only benefit is price? Simplied install and removal. Less auxiliary parts required. Simplfied tuning. Increased reliability. The list of benefits is long. If you can point me to a turbo tuner that offers CARB certification and a 3 year 36,000 mile warranty, please point me to them. I have never seen that for any other aftermarket turbo setup, so I don't expect any breakthrough for the 370z.

I would restate the argument as the only benefit that turbos have is a higher hp output.
I do want more power than stock, but I don't need 600 whp to be satisfied.
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Huh? The only benefit is price? Simplied install and removal. Less auxiliary parts required. Simplfied tuning. Increased reliability. The list of benefits is long. If you can point me to a turbo tuner that offers CARB certification and a 3 year 36,000 mile warranty, please point me to them. I have never seen that for any other aftermarket turbo setup, so I don't expect any breakthrough for the 370z.

I would restate the argument as the only benefit that turbos have is a higher hp output.
I do want more power than stock, but I don't need 600 whp to be satisfied.
If you are located in California, there are many more considerations. You are correct, in that CARB exemption will not be earned with any TT kits in the foreseable future.

Simplified installation and less parts, typically translates into less costs, and lower price. The 3 year warranty offer by the Stillen kit in the 350Z world, is very restrictive, nearly to the point of being worthless.

In terms of reliability, they both have their pros and cons, but from our experience, TT's are just as safe as SC's when installed, tuned, and setup properly. The perception that SC's are safer, stems from the fact that you have a higher margin for error in tuning/setup.

Ask anyone that has driven a SC 350Z, and a TT 350Z back to back. I promised you if money/CARB was not a consideration, everyone would want the TT.
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Huh? The only benefit is price? Simplied install and removal. Less auxiliary parts required. Simplfied tuning. Increased reliability. The list of benefits is long. If you can point me to a turbo tuner that offers CARB certification and a 3 year 36,000 mile warranty, please point me to them. I have never seen that for any other aftermarket turbo setup, so I don't expect any breakthrough for the 370z.

I would restate the argument as the only benefit that turbos have is a higher hp output.
I do want more power than stock, but I don't need 600 whp to be satisfied.
On the g35/350z, there were four superchargers available: vortech, hks, stillen, and procharger. The stillen was the only roots type. The vortech and procharger were both centrifugal units. The hks was a rotrex unit.

The stillen made great torque down low, as typical of a roots, but it gave up *way* early. I know of a stillen stage1 g35 coupe down in florida that ran high 13's in the quarter at like 101mph. My g35 runs low 13's at 104mph with boltons. The undersized roots unit used by stillen is the joke of the forced induction community in the g35/350z world.

The vortech and procharger units make much more power than the stillen. But because they are centrifugal units, they make no torque. Also, they have problems holding on to the belts using the smaller pulleys. And you want to talk about reliability? The vortech blowers have had problems with bearings lately.

On Sharif's dyno(a dyno dynamics), a bone stock VQ35DE with a vortech might put down around 340whp out of the box. The same car, with say an APS single or a Turbonetics single(the second most disparaged FI kit) will put down the same rough peak power, but will also put down close to 100wtq more than the vortech.

To demonstrate the difference in torque, many supercharger owners go for shorter gears(say 3.92's or 4.0's), to get into boost more quickly. But the turbo guys, if they do anything with gears, always go to taller gears(3.54's to 3.3's for the manual guys).

And before you buy into any kind of warranty offered by Stillen, check around the g/z world to see how well that warranty worked out. I know of a guy in kentucky that slung a rod; he had his car trucked down to Atlanta and Sharif performed the post-mortem on the engine. He also did all of the footwork on the warranty. That was a couple of years ago, and I'm not sure the car's owner got everything worked out on the warranty. Also, that warranty was only offered on the Stage 2 version of Stillen's kit. If you wanted a Stage 1 or 3, you didn't have that option.
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Old 07-02-2009, 12:26 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Huh? The only benefit is price? Simplied install and removal. Less auxiliary parts required. Simplfied tuning. Increased reliability. The list of benefits is long. If you can point me to a turbo tuner that offers CARB certification and a 3 year 36,000 mile warranty, please point me to them. I have never seen that for any other aftermarket turbo setup, so I don't expect any breakthrough for the 370z.

I would restate the argument as the only benefit that turbos have is a higher hp output.
I do want more power than stock, but I don't need 600 whp to be satisfied.
I'm not swapping pullies and I'm not replacing a belt every week.

Put me down for a turbo kit.

I do plan to purchase one in the very near future.
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TT for me when it's available.
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How will the 2.75" GReddy exhaust compare to any other 3" after-market exhaust? Mainly for the guys who really want to go FI, would this be a good route to go? I really want to see what the difference will be.
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dual 2.5" is typically good for up to 500whp. >500whp it becomes a bottleneck from what I have heard. If your shooting for 500-600whp 2.75" should be cool. 3" for overkill or 600whp+
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From the Greddy link:
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Lucky for you 370Z owners, we are planning to make a simple bolt-on kit for you, since all the R&D work will be done.
That, I'd have to see to believe. I can't imagine a TT kit that's truly a simple bolt-on
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That, I'd have to see to believe. I can't imagine a TT kit that's truly a simple bolt-on
+1. Anything that requires touching the manifolds is hard to consider "bolt-on".
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Im hoping this kit will be more aggressively priced than other tuners TT kits b/c of Greddys size/volume. If its a quality kit and $1-2K cheaper than competitors im all in!
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+1. Anything that requires touching the manifolds is hard to consider "bolt-on".
+2 might consider the GReddy TT kit
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How will the 2.75" GReddy exhaust compare to any other 3" after-market exhaust? Mainly for the guys who really want to go FI, would this be a good route to go? I really want to see what the difference will be.
A Greddy true dual 2.75 incher would be ideal for FI. Easily will handle 650-750whp if needed....same type of designs we've used on the 350Z TT.

A 2.5 inch true dual, while not optimal, would be perfectly happy in the 450-500whp range, but more power will always be available with a slightly larger exhaust, at just about any boost level.
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