GT Motorsports: 370Z Supercharger system development

Zguy

almost 54k now

2fast4thelaw

Its funny how both GTM and Stillen have gone dark for a while on these threads. I personally dont think the supercharger is producing the numbers they were expecting as I had previously predicted several posts back. I have a feeling the cost of this kit is going to be close to the cost of a twin turbo kit.

Unless the supercharger is 5 grand or less I wont be playing. I am quickly loosing interest in the supercharger and I am leaning towards GTM's twin turbo kit. I already have the supporting mods for either kit and after reading the self install thread on the GTM twin Turbo kit, its totally doable.

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travisjb

at $5K what kind of HP would be acceptable to you?

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SAM@GTM

What is acceptable to you for 5 k ?

Sam

Buddy Revell

Hmmm...great question. At that price point, Vortech's SC in CARB-legal form was putting out high-300s whp and about 300 ft. lbs. of torque on the old Rev-Up VQ35, right? I guess getting over the 400 whp mark with torque in the low 300s wouldn't be too out of the question on the VQ37, would it?

2fast4thelaw

If this kit could produce 100 rwhp and it was 5 to 5.5 grand I would say it would be "acceptable". If it were 6500 or more than it would have to add 150 rwhp or close or otherwise most people are going to likely spend a little more and go TT or do nothing at all. I don't think I am alone here either, I suspect many others are still on the fence between a supercharger and a TT.

I have pretty much made up my mind on installing a TT kit. I am for the most part just lurking the supercharger threads out of mere curiosity.

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Togo

Yeah you keep telling us this like we all want to hear it 5 times over, you know, in case I woke up this morning and completely forgot that 2fast4thelaw won't pay more than 5K for 100+RWHP. By the way, there is no way you are too fast for the law...

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kdoske

Its funny to me how people keep making comments like this. Most of which, despite their claims, won't even be purchasing any kit at all. If they would just read the thread they would see that they will flamed with the silly, 'whats taking so long' comments.

budakai

I wonder if GTM is going to do a ECU reflash with the SC kit. Oh yea what's the adv vs Disadvantages of a reflash vs a Standalone unit.

kdoske

They will most definitely have a ECU flash with the kit. Running boost without a tune is an almost certain guarantee for engine failure.

budakai

I know tuning of some sort is needed but which one do you think is better? Reflash or STU

SAM@GTM

We will offering our turnkey kit with a flash, there is no logical reason to use a stand alone for waht we are trying do here . We are the only company that are able to install and tune a stand alone on a VQ37VHR to date. it was not easy .

As for adv vs Disadvantages of a re flash vs a Standalone unit,it is really depends on the intended use of the vehicle to simplify it. if is for a street car i will use a flash and for a track car with some extreme power output that will require a lot of the blows and witless that a factory ecu can not do, I will do a stand alone

Sam

SAM@GTM

the price of the supercharger kit will not be close to a twin turbo set up. As i stated earlier we are still testing and this part can not be rushed, the Gaines that we have shown so far are very promising .

Sam