Koru_Kinshi

Now before things get messy, I am contacting EC tonight via email and phone tomorrow about this issue. I called earlier today, but now that I got a better look, this is a much more serious problem. But as of now, I have *NO* problems with EC, heh.


I turned my car on today and was about to drive out. As soon as I put the car in gear, I hear a god awful grinding noise. It sounded a lot like a bad bearing, so I shut the car off and checked it out. It initially looked like it was a bad bearing and I informed EC as such.

I was incredibly wrong.

The arms that hold the SC plate cracked! One is complete cracked apart, and the other is on it's way out. The plate had slapped onto the clutch on a small spot and apparently was grinding for those 15-20 seconds the car was on. I turned it off quick like I said, so I think the SC is fine. But the pulley definitely failed.

Bought the pulley brand new back in November. I do like to do pulls on my car, but I definitely take care of my car. Either way, this should be something manageable on EC's side, right? Obviously, I'm not driving the car at all until this is fixed.

Sir-Boost-a-Lot

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Looks like an easy enough fix, glad you caught it in time. How was the engagement on it when it was right? What I mean is, how did you have it shimmed?

urbamworm

To be fair this is not a "Eurocharged" supercharger pulley, they sell the Shardul pulley and I could be wrong here but think it is made by ASP. Either way, I am sure it will be swapped no problem. Many of these out there running well, hopefully just an isolated case.

Koru_Kinshi

I checked and made sure it was spaced to factory specs if that's your question. .5 mm or something like that. I needed all the shims.

When it was first done, it worked absolutely fine. No problems what so ever. Engaged great. Today was the first day it goofed up. And from what it sounded like, it cracked just today.

03'55AMG

Maybe just a one out of a million flaw. I am sure they will step up and replace it without a problem. They wouldn't be where they are today without the great track record for customer service they have.
Unless of course the install was flawed or something else caused it to happen.

Koru_Kinshi

Then I guess it'll be cool. Nothing else on the car is wrong or anything. Just is irritating I can't drive my car. :/

03'55AMG

I can understand that.. I hate when I can't drive the E55 due to weather, maintenance, etc.

edmond1129

Sadly, I am doing my oil change just now and found out the same problem too. Now I am changing my original factory one back and will try to find some one to make that spring

BBBSS

Do either of you also have larger crank pulleys? Other power mods?

03'55AMG

Wow 2 pulleys within 24 hours? When did you both purchase them? Maybe there's a flawed batch?

berti_00

I never really made a big deal about it but mine happened too... it was the first batch, when they were peoduced but got new one replaced within a day

edmond1129

I don't have larger crank pulley, all I have just headers, tune, with some exhaust mod and cooling

03'55AMG

Koru_Kinshi, and Edmond1129, when did you both get your pullies? If its around when Berti did, it must just be a flawed first batch. I would NEVER expect EC or Shardul selling things they didn't think would last forever

shardul

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Sometimes the springs crack. Contact your vendor and they should replace it at NC

forcefed4door

ain't that some bs... hopefully this doesn't eventually happen to the majority.

Forrest Gump 9

Shardul will take care of it

novae500

Hope these are isolated occurrences and last at least what the OEM s/c pulley did for me,69,000 miles before i switched over to the new smaller s/c pulley.

djrabbi

This isn't Shardul's problem lol.

Even if EC buys from Shardul, the customer should always go back to the vendor.

desant89

I just had a 168 pulley, and this SC pulley installed....So it sounds like one failure was obvious to the driver, and the other just happened to stumble across it during an oil change. Guess I better check it every once in a while.

bnzuovr

ohhh boy i hope mine will be okay so far so good. Modding is becoming a scary thing to do these days but in all honesty i rather have a s/c pulley go bad vs a damaged crank shaft.

GregMB

To any of the guys who saw failures.... How many miles were on the new pulley when the failure occurred?

1000 miles? 5000 miles?.... More?

It would be interesting to see if there was any correlation to mileage or not.


-G

novae500

mileage and how many hard runs on a daily/weekly basis as well.

RedBullJnky

Eurocharged will take care of you!

desant89

If I knew what I know now, I would have went with 180 crank and left the stock SC pulley on. There seems to be no advantage to doing it with a SC pulley and smaller crank. I actually seen another 55 car get dyno'd ad the same exact time. Bpth were done by the same installer. Difference was he had a 180 and stock SC pulley vs my 168 and SC pulley. HP was 2 les than me. I'm at 503.69, and he was at 501. My HP jumped up faster, but also dropped off faster where his was more linear. Later in the RPM range he had a huge torque advantage on me (like 40) although we both had roughly the same peak torque (537+539).

So given this, and that there have been some other failures (aside from these), I just think it's better to simply go with a larger crank pulley and leave the SC pulley alone. Just my .02

Again, I am no mechanic, but just not seeing the advantage here. The fastest cars, and even vendor cars seem to not even be running the SC pulley.

Sir-Boost-a-Lot

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The advantage is not having to screw with the crank pulley at all, since it seems like one out of three falls off.