So to Jax4557 and ANMVQ, would the engine have been saved and not have blown up if you guys had forged pistons and rods?

Curious to know because I soon will be trying for around 500whp with a SC kit, and I may have a little bit of a budget left to add forged pistons and rods.

But I had normally left them out because I was told by several people including a FI rep that it isnt required for me as I am not going over 600whp.

But reading these peoples stories of blown motors is starting to worry me a lil.

Unless you are going A2A, then no they won't help. The problem with the Stillen kit is the ECU has no clue what IATs are so it doesn't know how to compensate. Having forged pistons won't help a bad design.

Tap manifold between the TB's

Specialty Z MAP Sensor Kit - 370Z/G37
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Dont the MAF sensors handle the temp readings or with the stillen kit those go away? My tuner had the temp on each bank and my upgraded MAP sensor readings?

Well I am going Gamma kit, so it already has A2A or I may hold till RJM SC hits the market.

So ppls motors blowing with the Stillen kit is because of it's bad temp reading design?

Please don't take this in the wrong way. You're ringland resulted in my opinion to no proper dyno tuning & pushing such high PSI.

Un-top you were pushing a bigger than normal turbo to this kit, with out the proper fuel needed to the engines needs.

I have studied your YouTube videos, one can clearly see you sometimes running lean up top. Again in my opinion, but if you had the proper boost cut via ecutek you would have figured to upgrade to more fuel needed to run properly at that boost level.

Remember these engines were not built to with stand these power levels. The key ingredients is necessary for them to last.

Sorry to hear of you're lost. I too am pushing mine's & have saved in case I experienced the same results.

At the end of the day we all love to push the limits.:tiphat:

I appreciate the input and I dont know what happened and you could be spot on but I will point a few things out you are wrong on so it can help use all possibly come to a better conclusion on these failures across the board.

I am running ecutek and do have AFR protection and overboost injector cut enabled and configured by seb ( one of the best in the business ).

I also have knock warning turned on and saw it a few times when getting into the throttle in 4 gear a little to soon in the rpm range ( Learning the car )

I am running a Aeromotive 340 pump with 1150cc injectors and a cjm se-1e fuel return system incorporating a flew fuel setup so I believe my fuel is fine.

Lastly the AFR you are seeing are with E85 and are going to be different than you typical 93 octane tune as well as I had a leak in the initial stages and my wideband was off a bit during off throttle after a pull

I am pinning my failure up to a casting defect or existing issue with the cylinder 1 ringland area and of course pushing the limits to 14 PSI for 4 months probably didn't help it. I have seen a few people pushing the BP kit to this level with no issue so I think it was a one off issue in my case. My replacement motor also is seeing closer STFT numbers on bank to bank so I think that tells me the rings were already leaking oil into the cylinder day one of tuning.

Where are your MAF located though?. Adding the SpecZ 3bar MAP sensor at the manifold gives much more accurate readings.

I'm making a custom charge pipe so I can move the MAF right before each TB, and they won't be measuring the same air then either. I'm also ditching the coolant lines to the TB's, no use heat soaking them more than they already are.

I too started out with the Aeromotive 340 running a e70 blend and at 12psi the pump just could not provide enough fuel giving the z AFR cut while in boost. Had her upgraded to a Walbro 450 and she now runs Nice & Rich under wide open throttle at 12psi. I can now even run a higher blend of "e" since upgrading to the larger fuel pump.

With you running 14psi you definitely need to find a way to add more fuel to you're new build. You should hit up Charles from CJ Motorsports as he is working on a twin Walbro 450 pump setup.

Those twin Walbros are going to move some serious amount of fuel! :excited:

Seb has been recommending the Walbro 485 for me even though I won't be running e85. Just doing my install right now, but have the si upgrade from Vortech and also 9psi pulley - I'm going to start with the stock 8 pulley first and see where I end up. Hopefully the frozen boost IC, BOV and MAF/MAP changes will let me get into the higher boost numbers that the setup is capable of, but want to ease into it and make sure no boo boos along the way lol

I can't imagine I will need more pump than that, but good to know Charles is doing a twins setup if need be. :tup:

EDIT: What regulator are you using?

Sub'd!

Based on your responses I think you should do a lot more research about this platform before you decide it's right to go FI. There's mountains of good information about this platform here from the many of us that have walked this path. Don't rush in or you'll end up on the popped motor list.

I was under the impression gamma/Gtm made sturdy and great performing kits, wheather it be SC or TT. Am I missing something?

Every kit on the market has its own issues. You need to do the research and figure out what you are willing to live with.

Did you upgrade the stock fuel pump wiring to accommodate the added voltage draw with the aem 340l pump. Just curious because this was the pump I was going to go with when i switch over to e85.