I am on the cusp of doing the 9lb pulley upgrade to a currently working kit making roughly 400WHP/300TQ on a Mustang...will keep you appraised of my results. If it dies...it dies =P to quote Dolph =)

 

My supercharger is in. Just finished installing it yesterday along with a CSF radiator, Z1 34 row oil cooler, and Frozenboost heat exchanger. Can't really say much about the power it made, as I just did a shakedown, and then it started raining, but I will say that the canned tune runs clean. It feels pretty fat (rich), but I haven't logged yet. It's definitely not rip-your-head-off-fast, but I've been keeping the rpm's pretty low. At this point, I'm just trying to make sure all my coolers are bled correctly and no air pockets are in anything. I'll update when I have some miles on her. Here's a pic of of erything installed just after pulling it out of my garage for the first time:

 

I swear I want one..... Nice Build

 

Looks great Radio!

 

Great looking build. Have fun, be safe! You might want to consider stiffer sway bars and a strut tower bar as well Stock suspension is a bit soft for this much power.

 

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Also for me too with the Stillen kit I would have to take my ARK R-Spec HFCs off and put the OE ones back on which sucks so that would be some money down the drain having to take a loss and sell my HFCs.
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WHAT??
Wait a minute....you can't use the ARK HFC with the Stillen SC??
Forget that BS, those are the best damn HFC's out there especially for the RASP free sound quality! There's no way in hell that I would ever get rid of my ARK HFC's!

 

Aye, with the Stillen Kit it OE cats are pretty much the only way to go to ensure the kit functions as expected. This was another reason I decided to go the turbo route in the end.

 

Actually I would say that the best sound and performance are from the MD ART pipes... which I had to give up to go to the Stillen SC. The car is a little too quiet for me now but is fast and I would not be willing to give up 20 or 30 HP just to have it sound cool.

 

can someone explain why you cant use aftermarket HFC for this kit..

nevermind.. found it on page 22 of this post...

 

There have been lots of posts on this. Bottom line is that SC unlike turbos require a certain amount of back pressure to develop full boost. Something to "push against".

 

safe to assume a header upgrade will yield little to no gains with a SC...

 

I am actually not sure about headers... I never went that route due to the cost and the PITA to install for a 14HP gain. The stock exhaust manifolds must be pretty damn good. I remember going to headers on an Acura CL and gained 40HP... that was worth it.

 

Is there a way to get a better oil filter? The stillen one blows *** and is a piece of ****.

 

I researched some alternatives because I agree that Fram is crap.
Napa 1381
Mobil M1-105
K&N HP-1005

I'm running the Mobil M1 but it is hard to find.

 

Alright, I'm coming up on the final stages of the E-Tune revisions with Stillen, and it's a useable tune. I'll reserve my final impressions of the tune and the whole tuning process for when it's finally done, but so far, I can say that the car is quite a bit faster now. It's still not rip-your-head-off fast, but I'd put it in the category of fast cars now, whereas before it just wasn't quite there. In my opinion, they put way too small a tire under there, and that masks how much power the car really puts down. Almost anything that weighs 3800 lbs can break a 245 loose in the rear. So when you actually get some meat in the back and it actually hooks up, you really see how much power the car makes. Just before I got the supercharger, I put 305's on there, so I had no problem hooking up. And with the rear end under control, it really wasn't that powerful. Now with the supercharger, it's pretty quick. It's not the fastest thing in the world, but it's fast.

I'll be doing a cross country trip with the car in a couple weeks, so I'll be able to give you guys a rundown of how it holds up, what the real gas mileage is, etc... But before then, I hope to have the tune wrapped up and I'll be able to give you guys a rundown of how my experience has been through the process so far.