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JWillis72 03-31-2014 11:49 AM

Stillen Supercharger performance on the track
 
I spent the weekend tracking my car and the Stillen Supercharger and never had an oil temp over 221 with the weather in the upper 70s. The vented hood seems to really help the airflow through the coolers.

I was very frustrated with my Stillen supercharger at one point on the canned tune but after spending a weekend at the track with it I couldn't be happier with how it's running on a custom tune! If you want 600 hp it's not the kit for you but after trying to control and push 400 WHP around the Sebring road course I can't imagine wanting more unless you have a ton of track experience. The car ran all weekend like it came from the factory with the supercharger on it.

The only thing that concerned me was on my first run the SC spit out a couple drops of oil(We believe I may of had just a tad to much oil in it) and it freaked me out a little so I called Mark at Stillen on a Saturday and he told me what to check and all was good. When I first bought the Stillen kit I was told over and over that I should have gone GTM but Saturday at the track I was sure glad I wasn't praying for GTM to take my phone call for advise. But then again if I had taken the advice to go GTM the car wouldn't have had that problem because it would still be NA!

Z-Girl 12 03-31-2014 11:59 AM

good to hear, I'm so jealous. Enjoy the beast!

G37sHKS 03-31-2014 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by JWillis72 (Post 2761646)
I spent the weekend tracking my car and the Stillen Supercharger and never had an oil temp over 221 with the weather in the upper 70s. The vented hood seems to really help the airflow through the coolers.

I was very frustrated with my Stillen supercharger at one point on the canned tune but after spending a weekend at the track with it I couldn't be happier with how it's running on a custom tune! If you want 600 hp it's not the kit for you but after trying to control and push 400 WHP around the Sebring road course I can't imagine wanting more unless you have a ton of track experience. The car ran all weekend like it came from the factory with the supercharger on it.

The only thing that concerned me was on my first run the SC spit out a couple drops of oil(We believe I may of had just a tad to much oil in it) and it freaked me out a little so I called Mark at Stillen on a Saturday and he told me what to check and all was good. When I first bought the Stillen kit I was told over and over that I should have gone GTM but Saturday at the track I was sure glad I wasn't praying for GTM to take my phone call for advise. But then again if I had taken the advice to go GTM the car wouldn't have had that problem because it would still be NA!

I see what you did there! LOL:owned:

JWillis72 03-31-2014 12:48 PM

I came way to close to giving them my money, lucky for me I had a hard time getting them to send me an invoice and that gave me a bad feeling. I think I got my Stillen SC faster than that invoice.

future370zzz 03-31-2014 02:25 PM

Which vented hood do you have?

da mayor 03-31-2014 02:31 PM

did you gopro the track time?

JWillis72 03-31-2014 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by da mayor (Post 2761880)
did you gopro the track time?

Yes but I haven't downloaded it yet.It's not very impressive, I was over heating the brakes so I was staying between 100-115 (was around 140 the before the brake fade)in the straights to not over work them. The fastest lap was 3:11 I think. The car can do way better, the driver is holding it back! I'm very new to this and the SC made the throttle very sensitive and a handful for a new guy on the track.

Also in HPDE 1&2 there are a ton of cars that hold you up so it's hard to get a clean lap since it's 3.7 mile a lap.

JWillis72 03-31-2014 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by future370zzz (Post 2761871)
Which vented hood do you have?

It's a Carbon Creations Hot Wheels hood.

JWillis72 03-31-2014 07:01 PM

My car is actually running to cool on cool nights at highway speeds but we don't get many of those around here. It was down in the low 60s on my way home and at 70 the oil was only 156.


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