And as far as I know for a fact your wrong.:tiphat:

^ Sarcasm if some of you didn't now

Last thing on my mind. :ugh2:

I had the kit installed at 22k miles. Currently north of 55k miles right now. It still needs a tune haha, but I'd rather wait. As of last week, the car is not a daily driver anymore.

What is "as far as i know for a fact"? that's like saying "hey I may be wrong, but I believe I definitely am alive". lol

I like it it's going in the sig

Just from the very few that have popped I personally will not go over 500WHP on the stock block. I also drive it like I paid for it so it doesn't see many redline runs. I have to spend to much money on other stuff right now that if I blew mine up it may be a while before it is back on road.

Remember guys, even with a good list of builds what is known is probably 10-25% of actual boosted 370z on the road. I would say for every failure we see, be it stillen or GTM kit or other, there is 2 more behind it somewhere else.

From what I remember in no specific order-

1. Improper Installation blew one motor via a damage fuel line causing a lean condition.

2. A second hand kit pulled from a salvaged car lost oil and damaged the turbine and engine.

3. Most likely a bad tune but yet to be determined caused the motor to be damaged.

4. High rev motor damaged exact cause unknown.

I'm sure there are a few more I don't remember.
Overall blown FI motor are from installation issues then anything else. The majority of people here have the good sense of doing things right.

We are not Honda Civic drivers who buy a FI kit off ebay and install it overnight in our parents garage only to have it blow up in your face the next day trying to be a drift king.

:stirthepot:

Here you go another spoon fed member

http://www.the370z.com/forced-induct...-tt-build.html

http://www.the370z.com/forced-induct...ml#post2515448

Keeping an FI engine safe boils down to the tuning. As long as you keep detonation out of the engine, you should be okay. Do your research and find a good, smart tuner. (There's not that many of them out there)

That "safe" 500whp from GTM TT kit - how many would it be in BHP ?

WHP is measured at the rear wheel.

Just go by WHP and you will be better off.

Typical loss from BHP to WHP is 15%-18% I believe.

Typically a stock Nismo gets ~290 WHP but is listed as 350 BHP.
83% makes it to the wheels. Or 17% is lost.


So lets say you modded it to output 500 WHP, working backwards is 602 BHP. Which is a hell of a lot of power for a production engine.

For perspective, some other production cars '09 and prior with around that power:
2005 Pagani Zonda F — 594 hp
2009 Bentley Continental Flying Spur Speed — 600 hp
2009 Bentley Continental GT Speed — 600
2008 Dodge Viper SRT-10 — 600 hp
1993 Bugatti EB110 Supersport — 603 hp
2006 Maybach 57S and 62S — 604
2005 Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG — 604 hp
2006 Mercedes-Benz S65 AMG — 604 hp
2005 Mercedes-Benz CL65 AMG — 604 hp
2004 Porsche Carrera GT — 605 hp
2007 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano — 611 hp

162 hp/liter is massive.

Not for a forced-induction engine. The new Porsche 918 has a N/A V8 that gets 130+ BHP/Liter.

Well, yeah. If I could afford a 918 I wouldn't be here. Maybe I should qualify my posts a little bit.