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STILLEN manufacturers the best air intake available for your Nissan 370Z. Developing the intake to make significant power, be 50 state legal, and not require tune was no easy task. STILLEN prototyped over 56 different designs that were meticulously tested on STILLEN’s in-house Dyno.
The end result of STILLEN’s rigorous testing is an intake that gained 17.5 rear-wheel horsepower and 13 foot pounds of torque without the need for tune. The STILLEN Gen 3 intake has received the California Air resource board exemption order also known as a CARB exempt E.O. number.
Being carb exempt means the intake ships with a carb exempt E.O. number that indicates the intake is legal in California and all 50 states. To receive an exemption order STILLEN Gen 3 intakes have gone through rigorous testing to prove they do not negatively affect your vehicle emission systems. No one will mistake your Gen 3 intake as being stock. It has polished mandrel bent intake tubes and a unique routing design to pull truly cold air from the front of your 370Z. Increased performance appearance and efficiency of your 370Z with STILLEN’s Gen 3 cold air intake.
A turbocharger uses hot exhaust gases to spin a ­turbine wheel at high speeds that is connected by a short shaft to an impeller wheel inside the compressor housing. The impeller sucks air into the turbo housing, compresses it and pushes it into the engine to create boost pressure. As it is compressed, the air gets hot, so the air exiting the turbo is usually routed through an air-to-air or air-to-water heat exchanger called an “intercooler.”
Boost pressure is controlled by a “waste gate” that opens to vent pressure once a certain level of boost has been achieved.
Turbo kits are available for many popular ­applications and greatly simplify installation issues by providing all of the hardware and plumbing that is needed to fit a particular vehicle, including higher flow fuel injectors, a higher flow fuel pump in some cases and a special tuner tool for recalibrating the ECM.
Supercharging, by comparison, typically provides more instant throttle response depending on the type of supercharger that is used. A supercharger is a belt-driven blower so it is somewhat less efficient than a turbo because it saps power from the engine to drive the blower. A turbo gets its drive energy for free from the exhaust but also creates a small amount of power-reducing backpressure that has to be overcome before it develops boost and starts to make power.
A “positive displacement” supercharger (also called a “Roots” style blower) - like that on the ZR1 Corvette, GT 500 Shelby Mustangs, Roush Mustangs and many street rods - has counter-rotating lobed rotors that force air into the engine. The boost pressure developed depends on engine speed and the underdrive ratio of the pulley on the supercharger.
By comparison, a “centrifugal” supercharger does not have counter-rotating rotors, but uses a compressor design similar to the impeller wheel on a turbocharger. Boost builds with rpm more like a turbo, but throttle response is better because of the belt-drive setup.
Supercharger kits are available for many popular street engines and typically offer a boost in performance of 150 to 200 or more horsepower - which most stock blocks can handle. But additional modifications become necessary to maintain engine reliability with higher levels of boost.