Does the Stillen Supercharger dramatically decrease reliability? Do alot of you guys use as daily driver and drive a lot of miles?

Just curious, weighing my options.

 

It's fine as long as you leave the kit stock, and don't add more boost or other things.

 

haha.. that is what most people say about the maxima..lol

 

I've had mine on for nearly 8 months now, V1, 3.00" pulley and almost 0 problems. The only problem I had was 6 ohms of resistance through the ground wiring, which sent my auto transmission into a shifting gobbledegook frenzy. I believe however that the SC kit had little affect on the ground wiring however, so as far as reliability goes, the cars been perfect.

*knocks on wood*

 

How many miles you you driven in 8 months? i do about 30k a year

 

This is my opinion about the kit, it is reliable as long as you change the plastic pullies to metal ones and you get the proper fitting stand off bolts which will keep the plate aligned. My experience with my V2 kit has been wonderful. I had no problems with my kit, I drove from Marietta to Camp Lejeune and back and had no problems what so ever. I also drove from Marietta to New Orleans and had no problems at all. If you install it correctly your fine.

 

I gotta agree with ereet and Jay25...

Change out the plastic pullies, be **** about the install (grinding and alignment when applicable with the smaller S/C pullies) and you should be fine. Oh yeah, don't drive like an idiot and your tranny will survive too even with an ACT clutch.

I've had ZERO problems even with the 3.12 pulley.

 

Absolutely zero problems since installing the V1 kit with the 3.25" pulley last February. Not even the hint of a shredded belt. The previous owner made the same claim. I've had a 3" pulley since Labor day, still no problems. Knock on wood, rub rabbit's foot, throw salt over left shoulder, pat head and rub tummy, etc.

 

I haven't been driving as many miles as I was driving previously. This was my first winter with my 18" rims and needless to say, I took the lazy way out and opted not to drive rather than change the tires.

All in all, I've put in a little over 10k miles on it since I've gotten it. The engine had a little over 100k miles when I originally installed it. So again, as far as reliability goes, even old engines can do well on a lot of boost

 

I had belt alignment problem before and it was fixed. So far, no major problem **knock on wood**


my max is daily driven and I will be celebrating the 1st anniversary of boosting on Oct 13...I put 14k of boost miles onto the car.

 

what a waste of salt youll be fine if it has not shredded it wont you have a good kit bottom line

 

In a couple of weeks it will be 3 years that I've had the supercharger on my Max. I've got 91,000 kms on the Max but I don't remember the mileage on the SC itself.

 

I am just about to put mine on....any tips or things to look into in the future? I got the 2.87 pulley and the aluminum pulleys instead of the plastic. oh yeah it is a used S/C.