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Thanks incubus. I am still a little bit reluctant to spray water onto the engine What do you use to clean the engine bay safely by the way?
I am going to install the kit my self
I will be the first in South Australia and ???2nd in Australia with the kit. As you are aware the car is RHD too so I think I have to make a few modifications. I don't trust any mechanics doing this job as it will be their first time doing it as well. I am obsessive about doing this thing correctly. The last thing I want to have on my mind when I speed is what if the mechanic did not tight this or that.
Clean looking installation, good job. I like the look of the non-polished parts, looks more factory to me. Not a huge fan of the blue rubber couplings, I wonder if you can get black?
Originally posted by CMiS2K About a month ago 4 threads were started to get a Vortech Supercharger GB running at non-polished price of $3850 plus we also ended up with an additional $100 rebate = $3750.
Although the thread was closed 3 times and the 4th was volunterey due to the fact the myself and several other owners took the GB completely offline. We were able to strucuture the GB through the largest supercharger online supplier and that is all that I am going to say about the distributor.
This wasn't a grey market sell or a have ass put together KIT that one forum sponsor blurted out.
It is too bad that many people lost out on this deal for many reasons and motivations to stop this buy will remain unknown.
So here it is.... With a date stamp that is about an hour old. It took 3 days and 16 hours to install the kit.
btw, it is not 100% necessary to follow the installation manual in the steps that they outline. For example: You can start assembling the supercharger and pulleys to the brackets.When doing this make sure you put the oil feed and oil return lines on first!!!! Then start on the mounting plates. Make sure that all bolts are on the mounting plates. The manual specifies to leave certain bolts loose, do so, just don't forget to tighten them down once mounted to the car!!
The fuel pump can be done on its own. There is no real sequential order except when mounting the supercharger to the car and make sure you put the belt on. You will need a crank pulley holder, there is no other way that the 19mm nut can be removed with out it.
If you treat the install as one little project at a time, it won't seem to be so overwhelming.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by CMiS2K
[B]btw, it is not 100% necessary to follow the installation manual in the steps that they outline. For example: You can start assembling the supercharger and pulleys to the brackets.When doing this make sure you put the oil feed and oil return lines on first!!!! Then start on the mounting plates. Make sure that all bolts are on the mounting plates. The manual specifies to leave certain bolts loose, do so, just don't forget to tighten them down once mounted to the car!!
The fuel pump can be done on its own. There is no real sequential order except when mounting the supercharger to the car and make sure you put the belt on. You will need a crank pulley holder, there is no other way that the 19mm nut can be removed with out it.
That kit looks awsome...I can't believe that GB became such a fiasco...I guess that's what happens when you try to have GB with something that is more expensive than a couple hundred bucks...
07-31-2003 | 09:41 PM
What do you use to clean the engine bay safely by the way?
NOW I have $3600 burning a hole in my pocket with little overhead debt 
