No personal problem at all, I am just speaking from experience. As for your ride in both a TVS powered truck and an STS truck I am sure they were not apples to apples.

 

You're right the TVS was making 2 more pounds of boost and it still felt slower. The trucks were both single cab regular beds with 5.3l motors so there really wasn't any difference there. I realize the tuning might have been the deciding factor but either way the STS tuck just felt faster. I am not knocking the TVS, as it is a really nice kit, I am just stating the facts.

Your experience was just that, your experience. If you look at some of the other posts you will find that there are some people that are very happy with the STS system. I saw that you burned up a motor because of the oil return pump not working. Why didn't you turn the truck off when the alarm went off or when you saw the smoke coming out the tail pipe? Seems like you disregard any good points about the STS system just because you had a bad experience which was probably caused by a poor install.

 

LMAO poor install, now that is a good one. I have installed more engines, turbos, magna chargers, transmissions, and parts than most on this site and never had a failure until I put that pile of **** on my truck. That being said it was night time on an dark two lane highway and I had my radio on. Why in the **** would I want to worry about a cheez ball alarm going off if a pile of **** pump fails....I will stick to simplicity. A front mount does not require a return pump, therefore there is not one to fail.

Again, as I stated in the FIRST post I made in this thread. If you are going turbo go front mount and cut out all the bullshit.

 

So you are saying that since you have experience it's not possible that you made a mistake? Now I get to LMAO. Did you ever find out what exactly caused the pump to fail or did you just throw a fit, stomp your feet on the ground like a little kid and rip the system off?

You also act like the STS system is the only power adder that has problems. Every and I mean every power adder has it's short comings so singleing out the STS system just because you had a bad experience that could have easily been avoided is BS.

Did the low oil warning come on in the display under the speedo? Did the low oil pressure warning come on? You would have had to driven the truck for quite a while to empty all of the oil out of the engine.

 

As you stated every power adder has its ups and downs, some more than others. Again, I did not see the warning light until it was too late, I did not hear the alarm over my stereo....what more do you want, the pump failed and caused catastrophic engine damage. EVERYTHING was operational, everything was working....I have said it time and time again. Remember, I am not the only one that has had this problem.

That does not excuse the pump failing, in fact when I contacted Joe at STS (this just might be who I am talking to now) he told me that they have had failures in the past and were trying to source another pump supplier.

I will take the simplicity of a gravity fed return system (ala front mount turbo) over the complexity of the rear mount any day of the week. Trick and KB have STS (or you) licked in reliability, yes there are those that say they have had an rear mount system for 4 years, x amount of miles with no issues.....they are just ticking time bombs IMHO.

Never threw a fit, just removed the pile off of my truck as sold it for the equivalent of scrap right on this site.

 

I know some have had good luck with the return pump and all... But I personally wouldn't want my motor to have to rely on an electric pump for its oil... Mechanical only... Thus, front mount was MY way to go. The motor that's now in my truck was in BlownChevy's truck so.... It doesn't have to worry about being starved for oil as long as I have it, my turbo oil pump is ran off the crankshaft, and the return pump is gravity I hate it went like it did for Brian but I see his standpoint on the kit for sure....

 

Well......I did not expect to have this much info on the subject. lol.......
Like anything else,most products has their positives and negatives.Personal references I guess.

Thanks again

 

Yeah, it would definitely hurt anyones opinion of a mod that caused the loss of a motor. Ouch! I still think the sts has its place. It was my choice (just one of many I could have made at the time). I am pretty sure a front mount would have been faster AND more hardcore, I understood that going in. I just wanted something that would totally not affect my cold ac in the texas summer and underhood temps. Easy removal was also important. I live in my 4wd DD during the summer. It was still as comfortable as my living room and ran 7.64-no N2O-full weight-on 20's with what turned out to be a bad tune. I never expected it to be that fast. I have had my share of bad luck too, it just goes with going fast...gotta pay to play. If the TVS would have been available at the time, it would have been my choice though.

 

Its a very emotionally charged subject around here!