Hey guys I am currently looking into designing a new SC kit for 95-03 maximas. The kit will fit all years the same and I am aiming the price to be $2800 or less. I am going to hold off on the details until I have one on my car and have the kit copyrighted. The kit will be easy to put on and much more tuner frinedly, the belt and pulley will be easy to remove. I also plan to offer several choices for fuel pumps.

Well if your intersted let me know, the better the responce is the quicker I am going to get the ball rolling on this.

Ohh and does EPTuning sound like a decent company name to you?

 

do it and they will come

 

I am BLOWN away!!hehe....I cant find the pic of the guy with that, anyways cant wait to see the sc Ethan

 

very interested, and i know many others will be also

 

Honestly.. I like the price.. but HP numbers need to be at LEAST as high, if not higher than stillin.

I am not knocking you... I am VERY happy that someone is trying to compete in this market...

But, when push comes to shove , I would spend the extra $400 or so dollars for a stillin kit for 20 or so more HP..

BUT if your offering a more tuner friendly system.. the money maybe less import

Hopefully this makes sense and it does not seem as if I am bashing you. I am not.. just trying to offer constructive critism

I think IT'S A GREAT IDEA.. BTW

 

That sounds good!!!

 

OOOhhhhh gimme!!!! I want to make my own kit, but I don't have the money right now, especially with fixing my car... but a ready made kit... hmmmm, I'd buy one!

 

A couple things:

EPT? Pregnancy test? j/k

Would it be a Vortech or an Eaton? Personally, I wouldn't mind giving up maximum power potential for reliability and a clean bay, with minimal relocation, if possible. I like the Comptech setup or the TRD Solara setup more, especially if you could integrate a VI into the manifold (but I may be getting ahead of myself).

The price sounds good.

Did I mention I like reliability?

Good luck!

 

I am currently looking at using either a whipple SC or a vortech SC. I am leaning towards the whipple at the momnet for the ease of installation. Relaibility will be much better then the "other kit"


And for people out there looking for a more powerful kit I am going to try to offer a choice of pulleys so you can decide just how much power you want.

 

Make it fit an automatic w/o much of a hassle and you got yourself a bunch of followers

 

Very interested!

 

Praise God!!! A S/C not made by $tealin!! I'm in!!

 

If I can get one to work on a manual equipped max it will definatly work on the auto too

 

I think a lot of people are interested, but if it is not a lot cheaper than the stillen kit it you might have trouble selling it. Once a product holds a large market share it is difficult to sucessfully market a similar product even if it is better and cheaper.

But I would be interested if the price was better than Stillen and more reliable.

 

So where do I put the down payment??? I have auto sooo... Yes... make SC work with Auto... Remember, The poll says over half of the people here drive auto's... Muahahaha. Soon will my car not be made fun of...

 

How about START WITH 2K2/2K3 and work your way down? The earlier years already have options... we don't! I doubt the same kit will work on all those years so if you have to pick, start where you'll be the only one in the market.

Ohhh, I've been waiting for this...

 

For me, choosing between Stillen or other brand is not an issue. Chances are, the OTHER SC wil have lower price than Stillen. The choice is obvious.

What stillen sells is basically a Vortech turbine with Stillen's own piping. Is stillen's piping reliable? of course. Plumbings dont break down.

Thus, ethan's kit is going to be reliable too. The question is if he really comes out with a kit, how many people are going to be buying it? And is his SC kit REALLY coming out or not.. I hope it does. Soon..

What I hope the kit offers is this: In order of importance.

1. Ease of install.

2. Price !!! Ethan, anyway you could bring this down to $2500?? pretty please???

3. Reliabilit is not a concern to me. SC is not a super duper complex space ship or something. If a car can't handle the SC, then something is wrong with the car, not the SC unit.

 

Oh man I better start saving up now huh. Ethan just keep us posted. Thanks for taking your time getting all this info.

Chris

 

Almost finished saving up to buy S/C for next spring...ne thing but STEALIN would be nice. Definitley INTERESTED.

 

Hmmmmm.... Very interested and will be watching for updates on your progress .......good luck.

 

but you should lower the price first so more people can afford it, and then when u get a bigger customer base, then you could start marketing more, and gain more business that way. and earn more word-of-mouth sales.

glad you are taking the time to work on a SC, please keep us posted.

 

Business typically works the other way around.

 

roots or centrifugal?

 

$600 less than Stillen, hmmm. Leaves room for VIM or Level 10 recalibration. I'm listening...

Zam

 

There is a guy over at Bimmerforums that did the same thing. He used a Vortech blower and fitted it to a E36 BMW. He sure didnt get the power he had hoped for. Also, he wanted to sell @ 2800 but he ended up coming in around $3200.. I think he went for reliability over HP and he ended getting less that good results for 3K.

 

check this thread out..

http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/sh...t=supercharger

 

just because its cheaper than stillen doesn't mean that its better.. lets see how this pans out before we jump to conclusions and get overly excited.. expensive or not.. stillen sucks or not.. its a decently made kit and though it has it quirks .. it does perform and do a good job..

cheaper doesn't always mean better option for you..

 

For the 2k2+ not only is it the cheaper but it's also the only option for now

 

well all i am saying is.. get some miles and proof under your belt.. you can't just jump at the first thing.. last thing you need is an unproven kit blowing something in your car.. remember.. an SC is more complicated than a turbo.. the belts have to line up properly.. and so on and so on.. but if your thrive for power is as great as being the test subject.. then be my guest..

Personally.. i would let Ethan abuse that kit for a little before i jumped on it.. at least we know that Ethan knows how to put performance parts to their limits.. if he can't break it.. then its good to go

i am not knocking ethan or the company makign the SC.. but i see alot of people talking **** about stillen.. even though i don't have any stillen products on my car.. you guys need to know that lots of Research and Development went into that stillen kit.. they didn't just slap parts together and boom .. it was done..

 

The big bang theory...

 

Here ya go!

 

Hey emax95, keep me posted since I want to add some kind of boost on my max for the next spring, I'm looking at making one myself but if you can make my life easier and have a thrue bolt on S/C kit, I' m all ear, feel free to email me at: dblea@videotron.ca

Good luck

Cheers

AA

 

its sounds like a good idea.... but if we were to look at the number of times that people post a thread asking people if they want a turbo or supercharger and then look at what happens - well lets just not get our hopes up too soon.

 

Very good point. Making a SC is not a easy task but I am doing my best to make it happen, I just wanted to let everyone know I'm worken on it .


Sprintmax, it looks like I am going to use a centrifugal SC, probably a V1 or V2 Vortech unit (whipple is not gonna fit). And before I release anything I will put it threw a grewling test

 

its just that i know how these people are. .they always want a product and then when they get it.. anything goes wrong they start crying and b!tching.. and then that messes you up..

 

frankencar..cough cough

 

aww, everyone was so excited about the whipple

 

Congrats on the good idea!!!

Just ensure you give the members and others good customer service. Good customer service goes a long waaaayyyy!!!! I myself had my issue with stillen and I have manners to speak to people over the phone!!!

Prepare yourself to get some customers!!

 

more interested in v1 than v2. what does anybody know about eatens? I haven't heard about the brand before this thread started.

 

Eaton Superchargers is a roots-type S/C. IIRC Mercedez Benz's uses them in their Kompressor models

Eaton.com