STILLEN 370Z Supercharger System - Announcement!!!

Zsteve · 07-19-2010, 02:21 PM

So Im wondering if the tune and pulley needed updating because their IC isnt cooling as well as it should and they are losing power due to heat soak? That is about the only reason I would choose GTM right now, I know the FMIC works.

Chris@FsP · 07-19-2010, 03:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Zsteve

So Im wondering if the tune and pulley needed updating because their IC isnt cooling as well as it should and they are losing power due to heat soak? That is about the only reason I would choose GTM right now, I know the FMIC works.

That is not the reason; I will let Kyle explain if he chooses to.

Phimosis · 07-19-2010, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Zsteve

So Im wondering if the tune and pulley needed updating because their IC isnt cooling as well as it should and they are losing power due to heat soak? That is about the only reason I would choose GTM right now, I know the FMIC works.

If heat soak was the issue, they would have known that early in the development cycle and adjusted pulley size accordingly. Stillen's answer was that "customers' cars have been seeing higher than acceptable boost levels."

I'm thinking that if they have been testing this kit on their developpment cars for over a year and all of them show 8psi of boost on the dyno and on the road, then they sell ten kits and customer #3 says, "hey, I'm getting 10 psi of boost, but making 25 lb/ft of torque less than what you guys advertised," then Stillen would say, "please take your car back to your installer and have them check everything out, something must be installed wrong." Not, "please do not run your car with the pulley we included, it makes more boost than we advertised. Please install this other pulley instead." They were able to trouble shoot this issue and deliver a fix before all of their pre-orders were satisfied. That indicates they knew about this issue very early on. In my particular case, I was an early pre-order (3/16/10). I wasn't informed that I would be getting a resized pulley until after the order was paid in full, the car was in the shop and the install was nearly complete (late june/early July).

Zsteve · 07-19-2010, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Phimosis

If heat soak was the issue, they would have known that early in the development cycle and adjusted pulley size accordingly. Stillen's answer was that "customers' cars have been seeing higher than acceptable boost levels."

I'm thinking that if they have been testing this kit on their developpment cars for over a year and all of them show 8psi of boost on the dyno and on the road, then they sell ten kits and customer #3 says, "hey, I'm getting 10 psi of boost, but making 25 lb/ft of torque less than what you guys advertised," then Stillen would say, "please take your car back to your installer and have them check everything out, something must be installed wrong." Not, "please do not run your car with the pulley we included, it makes more boost than we advertised. Please install this other pulley instead." They were able to trouble shoot this issue and deliver a fix before all of their pre-orders were satisfied. That indicates they knew about this issue very early on. In my particular case, I was an early pre-order (3/16/10). I wasn't informed that I would be getting a resized pulley until after the order was paid in full, the car was in the shop and the install was nearly complete (late june/early July).

well I guess you can say that atleast you didnt go ut and blow up the car, but I would agree they knew and were just buying some extra time to get the new pulley fabed.

weiboy718 · 07-19-2010, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Phimosis

If heat soak was the issue, they would have known that early in the development cycle and adjusted pulley size accordingly. Stillen's answer was that "customers' cars have been seeing higher than acceptable boost levels."

I'm thinking that if they have been testing this kit on their developpment cars for over a year and all of them show 8psi of boost on the dyno and on the road, then they sell ten kits and customer #3 says, "hey, I'm getting 10 psi of boost, but making 25 lb/ft of torque less than what you guys advertised," then Stillen would say, "please take your car back to your installer and have them check everything out, something must be installed wrong." Not, "please do not run your car with the pulley we included, it makes more boost than we advertised. Please install this other pulley instead." They were able to trouble shoot this issue and deliver a fix before all of their pre-orders were satisfied. That indicates they knew about this issue very early on. In my particular case, I was an early pre-order (3/16/10). I wasn't informed that I would be getting a resized pulley until after the order was paid in full, the car was in the shop and the install was nearly complete (late june/early July).

May I ask if that was your car at Stillens facility on Friday the 9th of this month? There's a car there looks just like your avatar.

Kyle@STILLEN · 07-19-2010, 06:48 PM

There is a lot of discussion going on here and a lot of it involves inaccurate information or assumptions. Unfortunately we've been buried for the past few days so we have not been able to spend much time on here. For now I want everyone to know that we are working with Phimosis to get his car where he wants it. Our engineers made this is a huge priority and worked overtime last week and made some big gains. We will be updating everyone soon.

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Kyle@STILLEN The370Z.com Sponsor Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Newport Beach Posts: 626 Drives: Toyota Tundra Rep Power: 308	There is a lot of discussion going on here and a lot of it involves inaccurate information or assumptions. Unfortunately we've been buried for the past few days so we have not been able to spend much time on here. For now I want everyone to know that we are working with Phimosis to get his car where he wants it. Our engineers made this is a huge priority and worked overtime last week and made some big gains. We will be updating everyone soon.