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Well at least for a little while. My blower is leaking oil from the input shaft behind the pulley so it needs a rebuild. The V1 has ~70k on it now so it is ready for a rebuild, not to mention I spin it over its recomended limit

So, I took the blower and bracket off the car and removed the blower from the bracket. I had to put the bare bracket back on to to hold the alternator in place. I then put the factory belt back on, put my SC CAI filter on the crossover pipe, plugged the oil feed line, capped the oil return line, pinched shut the BOV vacume line and it runs just fine NA. Talk about quiet too, WOW!!! It is slow though So this is a plus for the SC-vs-Turbo debate. The switch back took me 1.5hrs and the car runs just fine.

I wonder if I will get any more boost out of a refreshend blower?

 

i wonder if you will sell the blower when it comes back and go to the dark side

 

Nope, But "there is no replacement for displacement" keeps poping up in my head

 

Somehow I think this is a inside joke on me.

 

Not at all, but you said it

 

What did you use to plug the oil feed line? I found some brass plugs but they weren't the right size.

My blower is finally in UPS's hands, a week after they tell me its going out the door.

 

Ive got allot of misc fittings laying around, I ghetto'd some together.

 

Could the upcoming colder weather give you a bit more boost and make it hard to tell? Just curious...?

SuDZ

 

Its already cold here in DC.

 

I thought you were more down south.

SuDZ

 

I moved here only a few months ago, yes the colder weather is MUCH better for the boost.

 

he moved

 

Almost a tie on that one

SuDZ

 

Don't get a Slowmaro 5.7L or a Mustang 5.0....you don't want that trash.





































and most importantly becuase I will be very jealous if you get an F-body becuase I know it would be sweet.

 

I'm thinking 3.5L

 

Nice.

SuDZ

 

ahh...very nice. are you gonna swap engine blocks? [anti-jeffrey]in my quest for a throatier sound this may be in my future[/anti-jeffrey]

 

You upgrading the blower? or just getting the $340 rebuild?

 

Rebuild, I dont think the stock motor can reliably take more then 13.5psi. I hope some one proves me wrong A 3.5L will make more power than a blower upgrade will give me, and I will probably be ok runing less boost.

 

check your pm's.

 

the RB26DETT has 2568cc, 156.70 cu. in.

 

THEIR IS NO REPLACEMENT FOR DISPLACEMENT!

DETT my large displacment butt!

 

YOU try cramming a straight six AND tranny into that engine bay

 

So have you been looking into what might be needed for the 3.5 to drop in? Do things match up somewhat well?

SuDZ

 

Yes & Yes

I dont want to type it out again so search please.

 

RB is a straight six??

 

yes...and not to mention it is an iron block, closed-deck motor that was designed to handle lots of boost.

 

don't know why I wa thinking 4 cyl. I was confusing it with SR20DET or maybe it was the crack..

 

DUDE THIS WAS POSTED 3 YEARS AGO

 

So, just why exactly did you recussitate a 2.5 year old thread?

 

Well maybe that's what you get for searching and reading so many post,and not looking at the date of the post.

 

hmmm.........