Stillen G3's those who own with real results please Chime in

esfourteen

And the person who told you this owned these intakes, did before and after dynos and determined that he lost power by installing them right? Please stop spreading fud.

You may not make 18whp as they claim, but theres a definite power increase along with a much nicer growl. Nissan designed a great intake system, but to pretend that it was designed to make the most power without regards to cost is naive. You bought a $30k sports car, not a ferrari.

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tsolin01

I'm set to install these this weekend. The only perf mod I have is the F.I. CBE so I doubt I'll feel any gains but I'll let you know if I do. I mean you shouldn't expect anything spectacular with any of these mods short of forced induction. My primary reason for modding is to be a little unique and improve the driving experience. Any added performance is just icing on the cake.

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370Zsteve

I gained 16HP from my Berk CBE as first mod.

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BOLIO 671

furthermore TONGMAN Idk why getting 15-20whp from this performance part would be hard to accept for a N/A motor when some members showed/proved that they Made these gains while running independent dynos...

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TongMan

Not to bash, but just to further a conversation about this. I did not say that I do not believe the power gains, I just said that it was hard for me to accept. I've personally seen dynos in the past for naturally aspirated vehicles and the most I've ever seen in person is about 8whp on a cold day. On turbo applications, I would definitely believe that a single CAI mod will produce gains of 20+whp. No doubt that one would feel a difference before and after a CAI. I'll check out the dyno forum for CAI gains.

So I found this about the Injen CAIs.



So you gain the peak hp from 7k rpm to 7.5k rpm only.

I found RCZ's thread when he reviewed the Stillen G3 intakes. He dynoed 20whp from the intakes, but seeing that his bumper cover was off and air was directed directly to the filters, it would resulted in the high hp gains.

STILLEN Longtube G3 Intakes. Review, Dyno and Impressions.

But RCZ did state that " I was pretty much speechless. I have never seen a 20HP gain from intakes on an N/A car. "

BOLIO 671

Tongman....I do appreiate the info that you are bringing to the table...after all we are all here to learn from eah other based on our info and individual experiences.... I too was at one point lead to believe that intakes do not produce significant gains....however based on all that I have read regarding the Stillen G3's I am pretty confident with the numbers that they produce and strongly feel that they are a great performance part.... don't get me wrong...not all intakes produce good results for the Z...for instance the Takeda short intakes as well as other intakes seem to produce little to negative power for the Z....however when talking about the STILLEN G3'S I feel its safe to say that based on what has been said about this part as well as RCZ'S and Semtex's reviews/dynos...its pretty clear cut that these particular intakes produce good results....

You're right about RCZ produing 20whp with his bumper off....but in Semtex's thread he did his dyno with the bumper on and produced 14.7WHP... Also in Semtex and RCZ's threads it was debated about the whole bumper on/off deal and some people posed some good things to consider...such as when you're on a dyno that you are at a stand still...so taking the bumper off and having the fans blow could probably fabricate a real actual driving experience where your car is traveling on the road having wind/air being forced into the grill area...some also pointed out and argued that the amount of wind/air that the fans are blowing into the filters with no bumper on can not duplicate real actual wind/air as compared to when driving on the road and not at a standstill such as a dyno run...of course this is subject to debate and interpretation....but they are both good points to consider...I have found supporting info to prove that other intakes don't produce good numbers...but it seems that Stillen got this product down to produce decent gains....I mean RCZ, Semtex, and ZEliminator got great results and all of them did independent tests/dynos to see whether Stillens claims of Whp gains were in fact true.... I have not found one thread yet that negates with actual proof anything bad about the STILLEN G3'S...

The reason why I started this thread was because as I was conducting research on this particular part I came across a post made by NYBLADEZ on a Stillen G3 thread that was posted by Elia CID..in. which I quoted NYBLADEZ's comment on the opening post of this thread on Page 1....I couldn't figure why he and others felt this way about the Stillen G3's when all the research I did on this forum said and proved otherwise...

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