| wstar |
05-03-2009 12:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Skorch
(Post 66839)
I'm not sure what Z-Car Garage did to install the intakes, but it seems to me that they made the holes for the intake tubes way too large. I enlarged mine so that it is just barely large enough to fit and my intakes are very solid - no shaking whatsoever. Seems to me more of an install gone wrong than a problem on Stillen's side.
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Originally Posted by SoCal 370Z
(Post 66847)
This excerpt is taken from Z-Car Blog regarding the video:
Now comes the time for improved power. We ordered the Stillen cat-back exhaust and the new Gen-3 intake system to help our car breathe better on both sides of the engine. Before I even get to any sort of dyno results I need to say that everyone here at Z Car Garage was let down by the fit and finish on these two products. The exhaust rubs and hits in at least two or three places, its painfully annoying. The intake system comes with no brackets of any sort and the front part is left to bounce around to rub on and destroy anything it pleases (see video below.) We have made our own brackets and changes to the intake to prevent any sort of serious damage, we were even forced to wrap the air conditioning lines on the driver’s side to prevent the intake from inevitably rubbing through. Stillen is a huge company with tons of R&D time in these products, I don’t understand how they could ship a part like this and expect owners to be satisfied.
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I agree, they cut the holes out too much. I got my driver's side cut out just right, but I made my passenger one very slightly too big (not as bad as they did though). I fixed it by using a ziptie to affix a small section of slit (flattened) rubber hose to the bottom of the hole to firm things back up. Protecting the A/C lines on the driver's side with a piece of hose is a known issue as well, I'm pretty sure it's covered in Stillen's installation instructions (the breather tube pieces they provide are longer than necessary: you cut those to size and use the leftover to protect the A/C lines).
The cat-back fitment issues have been covered on this board extensively. Apparently if you know how to do the install just right (like Stillen's own garage), it was possible to get no contact/rattle issues even with the original setup. However, enough of us had problems with contact at the rear tunnel brace on our own installs that they've made some slight changes to the shape of the exhaust to correct that issue going forward. Even with the original configuration, it's not hard to fix with a torch once you see what the problem is. |
