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Stillen vs. Smoky: your take on intakes

So, the parts from Top Secret and Amuse are in and ready to go on Project: Mothra. We thought we'd take this opportunity to do a little experiment. As you

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They will be essentially equal in HP gain. 33 21.43%
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Old 03-25-2010, 08:13 PM   #1 (permalink)
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So, the parts from Top Secret and Amuse are in and ready to go on Project: Mothra. We thought we'd take this opportunity to do a little experiment. As you may know from Project Mothra

we have Stillen headers and cats, NST pulleys and a few other things already on the car. We now also have a Stillen G3 intake on the car, as that seems to be the benchmark for performance.

Tomorrow, we'll do a dyno pull with the Stillen intake. Then, we'll swap out the Stillen with a Top Secret intake -- same car, same day, all things equal. We'd like to see for ourselves which one comes out on top. Check the Project Mothra web site for the official results beginning Friday and for updates on the build. In the meantime, what do you think we'll find?

UPDATE:

The results are in!

Stillen G3 CAI: 281hp, 217tq
Top Secret CAI: 286hp, 224tq

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I think the G3's are in the ideal location and of all the intakes, they have shown the best gains, at best I think the TS intakes will be equal in power production.
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Tough call, I think Stillen will edge out slighty since you have already opened up some of the back half.
Do we have pictures of the TS intakes yet?
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Tough call, I think Stillen will edge out slighty since you have already opened up some of the back half.
Do we have pictures of the TS intakes yet?
We'll take plenty tomorrow at the dyno runs. Planning to do hood-open and hood-closed pulls for both intakes. The time it takes to do the swap will allow the engine to cool back down and equalize the test.

Check us on facebook, too, for loads of updates tomorrow and over the weekend. It's going to be very busy gearing up for Import Reactor.

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I think the stock intakes are the best. However, it would be interesting to see what the "top secret" intake has to show. We'll see...
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I gotta think Smoky has something up his sleeve. It'll be interesting to see the results.
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Be sure you allow enough time for the ECU to adapt AWAY from the Gen 3's before you do back to back dynos. If you're not starting from a stock intake setup, just putting something on after the Gen 3's will require 7-8 wot runs to get the ECU to utilizing the new intake. Just as you would from the stock to the Gen 3's..
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Be sure you allow enough time for the ECU to adapt AWAY from the Gen 3's before you do back to back dynos. If you're not starting from a stock intake setup, just putting something on after the Gen 3's will require 7-8 wot runs to get the ECU to utilizing the new intake. Just as you would from the stock to the Gen 3's..
Thanks, Josh. We'll note that.

Our interest is to perform as unbiased a test as possible. We have Jason Langley, one of the top GT-R Certified technicians anywhere, working on Mothra and administering this test. He's going to make sure nothing biases our results.

This test is specifically for you guys here on the370Z.com. We hope you're as interested as we are in seeing how this comes out!
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In for pics/results. I would also like to see what kind of results the exhaust will provide. What time tomorrow you doing this stuff ? I gotta be up in Houston tomorrow anyways !
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Be sure you allow enough time for the ECU to adapt AWAY from the Gen 3's before you do back to back dynos. If you're not starting from a stock intake setup, just putting something on after the Gen 3's will require 7-8 wot runs to get the ECU to utilizing the new intake. Just as you would from the stock to the Gen 3's..
Interesting, this may explain my dyno numbers. I went from a stock setup straight to.......... with three pulls on the dyno.
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I'd go with Stillen's G3's...Would be interesting to see though
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i know ur doing hood up and hood down... are u also doing bumper off and bumper on?...bumper off would give stillen the edge...
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