How long have you had your charger on your car (miles).. and haw has the car been (as a daily driver?

 

A N Y B O D Y

 

Most of the guys that had superchargers got rid of them and were trying to sell their cars (or sold them). I'm pretty sure Smitty had his on for at least 8k miles and he said it was great as a daily driver, the charger didn't really effect his gas mileage either, unless he was really on it. I thought about getting one, but I'm still debating and I need to start looking at houses, etc with my fiancee. Overall, i think the supercharger is nice if you can afford it, but i'm happy with my current mods.

 

hey,hey,hey let me tell you it has been the best mod yet. i had mine for 2years and only put maybe 5k on it( not my daily driver). but i am currently starting a new project which will be taking alot of time so the car will be imobile for some time. but overall it has been great

 

I had my car w/ the Comptech unit for about 10k miles. The car itself had about 65-70k miles. I still keep in contact with the kid that bought it from me and he's probably only put another 2-3k miles on it. I bought the blower used with about 5-6k miles....so that's about 17-19k miles total. All of my miles had the high boost pulley too! It's a very solidly developed unit. Comptech is expensive, but never disappoints. My CLS was a daily driver. MPG went down 2-3, but that's probably b/c my right foot got heavier.

 

10K miles on the first one when I bought it. Sold it after I put on another 20K miles.

6-speed had a blower on it for nearly 30K miles as well.

Both daily drivers.

 

steve is a veteran booster he should know best

 

I believe types1967 probably had the most miles on his blower of anyone on the board that I know of with close to 70k miles on it if I remember correctly. He had an 03 6 Speed and it was his daily driver. He never had any problems with it.

 

I believe you are correct.

 

would you theink that after that long there would be problems with the blower at all?

 

The blower needs to be pulled at 70k miles and serviced by Comptech, but it should still run fine.

You may want to change the oil in the blower before than though.

 

That's what I told him via PM just a few minutes ago.

 

about 9k miles

 

You had a supercharger??

Or are you reffering to the turbo?

 

bought it certified from acura with 16k put the charger on at 20 and im just about to hit 50 running f'in great just put in gauges to monitor and everything is lookin good.....oh i average about 10k a year or so but when i drive it i beat the balls off of it !!!

 

how do you change the oil in the blower????

 

so a blower with around 65k miles prob shouldnt be dropped into the car unless its oil has been changed???

 

Good question, how do you change the oil without having to rip the whole kit out?

 

I've got around 28K on mine and for the most part, it's a daily driver.

 

Blower isn't too difficult to pull. You can return to Comptech to service for you or you can call them for instruction on how to swap out the oil. I'm not even sure what oil is in the unit to start with.

 

There is most definitely oil within the blower. Lubricates the jack shaft and the two internal rotors.

 

You have to send it in for CT to honor any service/work.

But if you want to DIY, just seperate the shaft from the blower (the hex/allen head screws) and you will see oil pour out.

 

would anyone advise on doing this yourself?? i mean it cant be that hard..

 

Thats what She said, last night......hahahaha

 

ok thats how you get it out but how do you get fresh oil back in and what oil should you use!?!?!?

 

 

ok I just called comptech today and thay told me that the oil never actually needs to be changed.. and the charger should outlast the motor of the car. good to hear.

 

Sounds good.