Im just curious cause I know that there are a lot of S/C'd Maximas out there and if, one day, I get myself a Maxima, Ill probably want to do this. I didn't see anything in the FAQ about this so I figured Id just ask Thanks

 

yes reliable to an extent. If you abuse it like gunning it to redline over and over again, it's probably gonna be less reliable than normal driving.

 

more reliable on manual tranny.

 

Hehe of course, Id never drive an automatic unless it was a Syclone/Typhoon or Grand National

 

then you have a good start....

now issues that people ran into besides blown auto tranny :
-melting puellys
-blower leaking oil/loud noise
-belt alignment/shredding
-poor customer srevices from BOTH vortech and stillen

 

Nice SHO you got there... Too bad our 93 looks like utter **** (beater) and is not the SHO...

LEMAR

 

Don't forget axles.

My SC ate 2 axles in 3 months!

But it's worth it!



IanS

 

Call me dumb, but I'm auto, do I need to worry about axles too?

-Ben

 

The issue you have would not be axles, I have say your tranny if your auto.


The vortech supercharger is like all things that are man made. They can fail at a moments notice and then there are others that are just fine. From reading many threads I seen 3 very serious SCer incidents. To me thats not that many. There are guys out there that dog the **** out of their cars and to this day still running. I dont dog out my car but when the opportunity is there and the highway is open I punch it. So my opinion the blower itself is reliable. Just replace the plastic pullies with alloy or metal ones.

 

I don't consider my axles a big problem - they only xost $285, a small price to pay for the way I drive.

IanS

 

I've had my SC installed in Oct/2000 and I've had blower bearing problems 2 years to the week. I probably contributed to its failure due to overtightening because of belt slippage during the winters. The auto tranny is still going fine. I forgot to record my mileage at the time of the install.
As for the Stillen pullies I replaced them with DanNY's aluminum ones. At first I thought my Stillen pullies were starting to melt when all it was was a small melted bit of rubber belt stuck on. I just have only the Stillen tensioner pulley and DanNY's aluminum idler pulley on.