Got my new replacement supercharger in today and installed on my car. So I'm all fixed and ready to go. I put off some mods i wanted to do because I was able to be fixed so fast. Dyno-Comp hooked it up and banged out this swap no problem. Man these guys find ways to fit people in to the schedule and get things done fast. The car is running great and I wll have some fresh dyno numbers most likely Thursday.
Here are some pics of the blown bearings and gouged up rotors.




Here are some pics of the blown bearings and gouged up rotors.




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That thing looks like a meat grinder! impressive install time!
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Hard to think a month ago the SC was new. It sounded like a meat grinder to when it was on my car.Originally Posted by alumar
That thing looks like a meat grinder! impressive install time!
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Guess you didn't drive ur van for long lol.
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I didnt even have to drive it. So the Bang Bus was left to collect more tire dry rot. I was able to shut my supercharger down and pull out some timing and the car was completely derivable with out the supercharger, extremely slow but it beats the mini van. All is good in the hood now, or should I say under the hood.Originally Posted by EURO KNG
Guess you didn't drive ur van for long lol.
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Curious to know what caused those bearings to fail. Sure hoping it wasn’t FOD.
Should pull even harder now.
Should pull even harder now.

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look forward to your even more impressive times!
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car was completely derivable with out the supercharger, extremely slow
car was completely derivable with out the supercharger, extremely slow
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Exploreblown bearing huh..? glad to hear your good in the hood, all you need now is some steady *****es' n hoe's, sum candy for your noes sum diamond stones and roll with the chrome..
Hooley:
Just one question please:
Where did all of the shavings from the blower go?
I would bet they did not get stopped in the I/C, so you may want to take a borascope to your cylinders my friend. Just food for thought, as I would hate to see the next problem for you being an engine replacement.
Good luck my friend, and go POUND the track again
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Just one question please:
Where did all of the shavings from the blower go?
I would bet they did not get stopped in the I/C, so you may want to take a borascope to your cylinders my friend. Just food for thought, as I would hate to see the next problem for you being an engine replacement.
Good luck my friend, and go POUND the track again
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Congrats on the quick turn around time-covered under the warranty? (Cars, or S/C's?)-glad to see a C55K back on the streets!
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How does the new one sound? Better than the last one when you first installed it?
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Just one question please:
Where did all of the shavings from the blower go?
I would bet they did not get stopped in the I/C, so you may want to take a borascope to your cylinders my friend. Just food for thought, as I would hate to see the next problem for you being an engine replacement.
Good luck my friend, and go POUND the track again
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Very good question as I was wondering the same thing. I do think that some if not most of the debris would have been stopped by the intercooler though as tube and fin cores are pretty tight plus with all the fins that are cut into the tubes it should hold some amount of garbage from getting into the cylinders.Originally Posted by MRAMG1
Hooley:Just one question please:
Where did all of the shavings from the blower go?
I would bet they did not get stopped in the I/C, so you may want to take a borascope to your cylinders my friend. Just food for thought, as I would hate to see the next problem for you being an engine replacement.
Good luck my friend, and go POUND the track again
See yeah
great news I can't see the pics at work, but I'm interested to see what it looks like.
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not sure about the AMG piece, but on a centrifugal blower (vortech), running high boost levels with no bypasss valve will do that. when the valve sees high vacuum (throttle body closed) it dumps the boost through the valve, so it doesnt build up in the the intake tract and damage the impeller. pretty sure my whipple had one on it also, but that was a good 15 yrs ago...lol




