After 3 months of reading the FI forum,finally decided to go with the stillen kit. Just had the stage 2 stillen installed at their facility, took 2 days and 6,700 bucks installed with the carbon fiber hood. The S/C, hood and labor was on some January sale. Customer service was great unlike from what Ive heard on the forum. For the 2006 owners that is interested in this kit, if your car is made from mid 2006 and up your going to be missing a fan bracket that is needed to install the kit. They charged me an extra 75 bucks to order the bracket.

Planning to go stage 4 once Im sure the motor is doing well with the stage 2.
Overall Im very satisfied with the power for my daily driver, figure if the engine blows ill just build the block and slap a TT on it . O yea the quality of the hood is amazing, fits perfect unlike Seibon crap.

Heres some pics, dont mind the toyo tires sticker, im trying to cover up rock chips

 

Nice

Lol ur missing a rivet just like me Lol. And I hope ur not gonna try and hide u have a stillen SC Lol

 

lol what rivet am I missing? Nah Im not gonna hide it haha, Im pretty conservative and just wanted some more power for all the daily driving I do. Im gonna brace myself for Tauran and Alberto , j/k

 

awesome engine shot, but hey I gotta question for you. You see the position of the heatshield for your air filter. The other day I stuck my hand in that same position where the heat shield is while the engine was running, and all I felt was almost ice cold air, the radiator fans were blowing cold air directly at the side where the heatshield is at. Thats' on a stock motor though, I dont know what kind of radiator setup you have, so would it be plausible for me to say that on a stock motor the heatshield positioned there would actually block useful cool air??
cuz I'm about to custom build a heat shield box, and wondering would it be better to just make a full out aluminum heatshield box like the ARC one ?

 

building a full box would be the best, like the ARC or Stillen. When the fans activate it blows a shlt load of hot air right into the intake, the JWT heat shield is pretty worthless I think

 

pure sex...great price too. for some reason, i have always been a sc guy, just like the look and i for one like the sound. don't get me wrong, i like the tt sound too.

can you go with a strut bar with a sc though?

very very nice!

 

Looks real nice and god i wish my timing cover looked that good.I had the stillen since mid 2003 and i still like the kit but really it is to much money for what you get...........hence my greddy twins that are on now.

 

yea stillen has a strut bar that clears the S/C, picking it up tomorow

 

yea i agree on the insane price. Only reason I jumped on it because the 6,700 price seemed like a great deal

 

I will say that my stillen setup gave me no problems whatsoever in all the years that i had it.........with the exc of having to replace the small s/c belt a lot.I see you have the 6 rib belt so i dont see many problems with belts in your future.You will get used to stage2 very quickly but dont go stage 3 go straight to stage 4.

 

how easy was the install? the vortech says it is easy to install too...any opinons?

 

yea i read your other posts before haha. Stillen said they can do stage 3 for the same price but then I need to tow the car off the lot because its not carb legal, .

 

Very nice!!! I ordered my stage two upgrade yesterday, I can't wait!! Very clean great looking car too!!!

 

Welcome to the FI club, Did you get some #'s yet curious?

 

Looks great!!!!

 

nah , i have my bolt on dyno jet sheet from SR racing so im gonna go to the same shop for some real numbers, then do it again for stage 4.

 

Don't get too excited, my stage 3 couldn't even put out 300whp... 55 shot fixed that though.
That thing makes a ton of heat! I'd suggest you work on cooling everything.

 

Nice. I miss my Stillen kit once in awhile...

 

Wow did I miss something bro.............Awesome and welcome to the FI world.

 

lol sup ed, you get your car back yet? Lets go drink in K-town!