Innovate (Sprintex) Supercharger Owners Topic

[Ryan86]

Originally Posted by sw20kosh

Impressive! What pulley are you running? What sort of max timing are you seeing during WOT pulls? Should be something like 25 deg towards redline?

I do love my torco. Keep a bottle in the trunk with me. I always use it at the track.

I'm on 75mm pulley, I asked Bill to give me map 1 on pumpgas and Map 2 with Torco.

[xxscaxx]

Originally Posted by sw20kosh

My tensioner has wobble/play too when the motor is spinning. I just assumed that is what a tensioner does when the motor is spinning... How much wobble is standard?

P.S. Anyone know how much a new tensioner costs? Never had any problems with my belts luckily. I did shim my idler pulley so the belt sits in the middle of the pulley.

I just checked my pulley and while its not directly in the center and close to the edge, its still fully on the pulley. But I wonder if this is the reason why a few have had to rebuild the pulley - maybe its putting tension on the bearings with the belt not being directly in the center of the pulley.

I started hearing a noise the past few days, it comes and goes, but I'm wondering if its the pulley.

[DarrenDriven]

Originally Posted by Touge_ninja

@DarrenDriven might wanna take me off the list.... could not wait any longer and went with a different kit.

Not surprised haha.

[wrxgoose]

so is anyone else having issues with their tensioner and the belt?

[Ryan86]

Originally Posted by wrxgoose

so is anyone else having issues with their tensioner and the belt?

Give the Blue Gates RC belt a go, it's slightly smaller, than the kit belt, which after a weeks worth of driving runs perfect.
Got me eye on the Raceseng tensioner pulley, they look hardcore compared to the plastic pulleys.

[wrxgoose]

Originally Posted by Ryan86

Give the Blue Gates RC belt a go, it's slightly smaller, than the kit belt, which after a weeks worth of driving runs perfect.
Got me eye on the Raceseng tensioner pulley, they look hardcore compared to the plastic pulleys.

is it a manual, or automatic tensioner?

[Ryan86]

Originally Posted by wrxgoose

is it a manual, or automatic tensioner?

Sorry I was meant to say idle pulleys. Our cars are self tensioning??

[wrxgoose]

Originally Posted by Ryan86

Sorry I was meant to say idle pulleys. Our cars are self tensioning??

that's what it seems to be, but when i get on it, it slacks, and that seems to be why my belt is comin off and eating stuff

[Ryan86]

Originally Posted by wrxgoose

that's what it seems to be, but when i get on it, it slacks, and that seems to be why my belt is comin off and eating stuff

Try the Blue Gates, tension is far better and I'm sure it reduces drag. I've done almost 2000km now no issue and the belt running super smooth now that it worn in.

[wrxgoose]

even with driving as hard as you can? that's the only times i seem to be having problems

[xxscaxx]

my blue gates belt is working problem free with my 70mm pulley. Then again, I never had issues with the belt, stock or not.

goose, did you check your supercharger pulley to make sure it was rotating correctly? I remember someone having an issue when turning the pulley by hand with the belt off and it had a "wobble." Maybe this is cause it to come off?

I don't beat on my car but I have done a lot of logging so a lot of WOT pulls and i've never had issues. I have been "stomping" it lately (low rpm, just WOT) with the blue gates belt and putting some more strain on things and still no issues.

[sw20kosh]

I've tracked this kit maybe 5 times and had no problems with the belt. 75 mm and 70 mm pulleys.

@whataboutbob, what about you and all your autoX?

[whataboutbob]

@sw20kosh I had the idler pulley go out on me and tried to space the replacement unit Innovate sent me out so that the belt was more centered on it. The next AutoX event I took a very nasty spin and came back into grid to find that it had thrown the belt completely off, but the belt was not damaged. I immediately removed my spacing modification and put a new belt on and did the rest of my runs. I've probably put about 2K miles and a couple of AutoX days on the setup since and have had no belt or idler pulley issues since. FYI I am still using the 75mm pulley and plan to continue to do so.

[DriftEm]

http://www.delicioustuning.com/node/247