I was driving down the highway when all the sudden my car started bogging down and my tcs/slip/SES lights came on. When I pulled over the sound at idle was horrible it was so loud I couldn't even tell where it was coming from. It had a feeling it was the S/c but it was dark and I had no tools. I had it towed into town and the next morning I pulled the s/c cog tensioner and belt and the sound went immediately away. Today I pulled the S/c to find this......

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Any ideas on what could have caused it?

 

ouch!! that sucks, did you have the filter on there??

 

holy ****!

did you have a filter on it?
still covered under warranty?

thats alot of metal that went in the intake. Does the motor sound like its ok.

 

ya, thats the first thing i checked. I didn't see any holes or cracks in the filter or couplings.

 

its been running fine now for about a week except my SES light is still on.

 

No warranty, it was on the car when I bought it and vortech said its non transferable. I sent it in once already back in april or so to have new seals and bearings installed.

 

Also, that nut holding the turbine in has a good amount of wiggle to it. Not that the nut itself is loose though but the whole piece moves.

 

oh damn, that sucks, it looks like a problem that has been happening for a while.


give me a call at the shop if you have to buy a new blower. i will take care of ya...

 

None of the metal should be able to make it through the IC. It looks like some metal was sucked into the blower . The edges of the fins are all chewed up . Did any thing drop out when you took off the filter ?

 

Nothing.....I couldn't find any bits of anything.

 

can the turbine and w/e other internals that may be messed up be replaced?

 

what mileage on the sc?

think maybe one of the blades got fatigued and let go and thats why te others are chewed up so bad?

yes the internals can be replaced, vortech will probably charge nearly 600 bucks. I dont know how much a new blower cost but it may be best to get a new one thatll carry a 1 yr warranty.

 

The s/c was already on the car when I got it and I have 21k on the car.

 

The only other odd thing i saw was there was some fine oil sprayed around the area where the oil feed line is. The connection was good and I didnt see any breaks in the line......

I'll try to snap a pic but it may be to dark.

 

There is a decent amount of oil around there, I replaced the filter when I sent it into vortech back in april and it still looks clean. where else should I check for a leak?

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even if there wasn't adequate oil going into the blower the blades still wouldn't have gotten so messed up...right?

 

Was the filter extra oily ? Even if the oil feed line was leaking a little , which probably was the case . You still would be getting enough oil to the blower .

 

no the filter is looking ok

 

I can't be w/o a car so i need to rig up an intake but what should i do about the oil feed and oil drain? Anything else i need to do b4 I can drive?

 

disconnect the IC pipe before the MAF and put some type of filter on it . I just cut up a furnace filter and clamped it on . The oil feed line can be shoved into the drain line and clamped on . Reset the ECU or disconnect the battery for 12 hours . You should be good to go .