Purchased Stillen S/C
12-11-2012, 11:27 PM
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My driving experience is light track history. I can handle this car with no problem. I practice drifting quite often and have learned my cars limits and how to react to different situations. When it flooded really bad in houston 1 year, i did a 720 on the freeway and managed to end up back in my own lane without hitting anyone or anything. I'm not going to claim im one of the greatest drivers ever...but i do have some good skills and i'm always trying to improve on them with technical driving.
My car is my daily. i drive it to work and anything else.
Yeah, i do want to get to walmart faster.
The only thing i've done other than the S/C are some volk rims. Next purchase will be brakes. Then suspension.
I can already hear your sly comments and all i gotta say is don't worry about what i do with my money. If you don't think im building it right, well, go bother someone else.
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12-11-2012, 11:42 PM
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12-12-2012, 12:01 AM
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And FYI OP with Stillens 9lb pulley at 100oct the car out down 406rwhp. I am now aiming for numbers north of 500 with the engine build
12-12-2012, 05:56 AM
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Ended up making around 389.X RWHP @ ~7.9 psi on an AWD mustang dyno. very happy with the kit although i adjusted to the power difference pretty quickly. Wanting more, i called stillen and tried to get a smaller pulley. After talking to the representative, he was less than impressed with my desire for more power. If i could go back, i might have gone with the GTM kit only for the added room for more power but i would be very nervous with more power on that stock block. When speaking to him, i said "well, i ended up paying $xx,xxx with all the supporting mods and little knick knacks (the kit was only about 6,300) and only got about an extra 100 horses."
he goes "ONLY 100?!" sarcastically as if i should've been impressed with that.
it's too late to anything about it now, but i guess i justify it with being on a safe s/c that i can daily drive and not worry about.
going to research more and see if there are some "unofficial" mods i can do to the supercharger as it is based on the vortech platform.
he goes "ONLY 100?!" sarcastically as if i should've been impressed with that.
it's too late to anything about it now, but i guess i justify it with being on a safe s/c that i can daily drive and not worry about.
going to research more and see if there are some "unofficial" mods i can do to the supercharger as it is based on the vortech platform.
In the end I see that you made 389whp on JTrans dyno, so I am sure you will make in the 400s on a DynoJet....thats not bad for that kit. One of the down sides to that KIT is, you are limited to what you can do to build real power.
If you every get the PowaBug...and you will... sell that kit and go Turbos. Tons of different ones I would go with on here...JWT,GTM,SFR,BP,Greddy, just to name a few.
I will be at JTran on Thursday to get my clutch pedal changed, if you are there I will give you a ride in my car so you can see the difference.
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05-29-2013, 01:01 AM
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Old thread, just wanted to see how she is holding up. Are you happy with it? Have you looked more into pulleys or possibly a 928 impeller? I dont understand peoples aversion to this particular setup simply having a stillen badge on it. The meat and potatoes is a tried and true vortech blower, and there should be plenty of upgrade options for more power. I understand the concerns with the old roots kit but this is a completely different animal. Hope you are enjoying it op, and glad to see another good review of jtran. That is looking more and more like the spot I will end up for tuning my vortech.
08-09-2013, 06:24 AM
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Old thread, just wanted to see how she is holding up. Are you happy with it? Have you looked more into pulleys or possibly a 928 impeller? I dont understand peoples aversion to this particular setup simply having a stillen badge on it. The meat and potatoes is a tried and true vortech blower, and there should be plenty of upgrade options for more power. I understand the concerns with the old roots kit but this is a completely different animal. Hope you are enjoying it op, and glad to see another good review of jtran. That is looking more and more like the spot I will end up for tuning my vortech.
summary: still love the power and the SOUND.
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