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TheBoomSpoon 06-08-2014 01:24 PM

Since i use torque android app at the dragstrip where i can monitor afr post run.

Car tuned at AAM shows around 12.5 during WOT for run.

Hills garage tune runs about 13.5

outside temp about 10 degrees warmer whrn i ran with hills tune.

Very similiar time. Within .1

Also my intake air temp is usually about 8 degrees hotter than ambient when driving at highway cruise, anyone know what their stillen g3 registers?

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///PureSwank 06-08-2014 01:48 PM

Nah rule of thumb is 3 or more breather mods. Even then you might be good but you'll start fuckin with the ecu by then.

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Team_STILLEN 06-11-2014 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by ///PureSwank (Post 2851035)
Nah rule of thumb is 3 or more breather mods. Even then you might be good but you'll start fuckin with the ecu by then.

We have similar experience with bolt on mods. We find that once you go past Gen3 intakes, HFC's, and Cat-Back Exhaust you really should do a tune. You will see gains from Tuning with just those three mods, but we highly recommend getting the car tuned if adding headers or intake manifold just to maintain AFR's (power gains are a plus though).

///PureSwank 06-11-2014 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Team_STILLEN (Post 2854805)
We have similar experience with bolt on mods. We find that once you go past Gen3 intakes, HFC's, and Cat-Back Exhaust you really should do a tune. You will see gains from Tuning with just those three mods, but we highly recommend getting the car tuned if adding headers or intake manifold just to maintain AFR's (power gains are a plus though).

Yeah, you pretty much hit the spot. I personally wouldn't add headers or an aftermarket intake manifold either if I wasn't planning on tuning it immediately afterwards. Same rule pretty much applies to most sport cars.

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///PureSwank 06-11-2014 11:17 AM

Forgot to mention ported throttle body as well.

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jdocis317 06-15-2014 11:50 AM

I am about to purchase Stillen Gen 3 intakes, F.I. LTH, and F.I. TDX CBE, and I'd like to get a tune (especially w/ lth) but I don't want to void my warranty... will this happen? or at least is it easily reversible in case I need to claim my warranty?

seymore4 06-15-2014 12:01 PM

It will not void your warranty. As long as you get the reflash cable with the tune you can easily remove it and go back to stock anytime you want

synolimit 06-15-2014 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by seymore4 (Post 2860065)
It will not void your warranty. As long as you get the reflash cable with the tune you can easily remove it and go back to stock anytime you want

Still a check sum in the ecu. If nissan doesn't have a record of previous flashes, then they know you flashed it. If they want to push the issue they can refuse the claim. Gotta pay to play son.

Go to a dealer that's mod friendly. It's your only weapon.

jdocis317 06-15-2014 03:04 PM

Thanks. Part of me wants to keep the warranty intact since the car is less than 3 months old, but the rest of me is like screw it lets go fast no matter what! Guess it comes down to whether or not i trust my car not to take a dump on me after I mod it.

seymore4 06-15-2014 07:50 PM

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Originally Posted by synolimit (Post 2860111)
Still a check sum in the ecu. If nissan doesn't have a record of previous flashes, then they know you flashed it. If they want to push the issue they can refuse the claim. Gotta pay to play son.

Never heard of that happening

synolimit 06-15-2014 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by jdocis317 (Post 2860219)
Thanks. Part of me wants to keep the warranty intact since the car is less than 3 months old, but the rest of me is like screw it lets go fast no matter what! Guess it comes down to whether or not i trust my car not to take a dump on me after I mod it.

Stay NA and you'll be fine. The ratio of breaking vs not is probably 5% to 95%.

foodgoesNryan 11-21-2014 11:48 AM

I installed a K&N Typhoon intake and filters, and my check engine light has been coming on ever since (Code 0300 - Random cylinder misfire). The dealership looked and it said the car doesn't feel like it's misfiring when they drive it, plus they didn't find anything wrong with that could cause this problem. They said Nissan will tell me to take off the intake before they do any other tests since that's possibly the cause of the code.
It's going to be really annoying to switch out the intake, do you guys have any other tips? Do intakes cause codes to be thrown?

foodgoesNryan 12-09-2014 10:52 PM

bump

Team_STILLEN 12-11-2014 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by foodgoesNryan (Post 3036445)
I installed a K&N Typhoon intake and filters, and my check engine light has been coming on ever since (Code 0300 - Random cylinder misfire). The dealership looked and it said the car doesn't feel like it's misfiring when they drive it, plus they didn't find anything wrong with that could cause this problem. They said Nissan will tell me to take off the intake before they do any other tests since that's possibly the cause of the code.
It's going to be really annoying to switch out the intake, do you guys have any other tips? Do intakes cause codes to be thrown?

We have not seem random misfire codes from installing our intakes, but I cannot comment on the K&N as we do not see them as often. Anything is possible, but for an NA application it is a little odd. No other codes other than the random misfire?

jwick 12-11-2014 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by foodgoesNryan (Post 3036445)
I installed a K&N Typhoon intake and filters, and my check engine light has been coming on ever since (Code 0300 - Random cylinder misfire). The dealership looked and it said the car doesn't feel like it's misfiring when they drive it, plus they didn't find anything wrong with that could cause this problem. They said Nissan will tell me to take off the intake before they do any other tests since that's possibly the cause of the code.
It's going to be really annoying to switch out the intake, do you guys have any other tips? Do intakes cause codes to be thrown?

Do you have an aftermarket clutch?


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