Kraftwerks Supercharger Owners Thread

[tahdizzle]

CARB is great. Congrats, but gonna have to wait to see what the e-force is gonna put out.

[kombatlion]

I am really looking at this kit, but I am a little worried about the broken belts issue, are the belts expencive? are they easy to install?

[brianhj]

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[brianhj]

Fuck I thought I was in innovate thread. Sorry guys

[Freeman]

Originally Posted by kombatlion

I am really looking at this kit, but I am a little worried about the broken belts issue, are the belts expencive? are they easy to install?

never had a broken belt. i've had the old style pulley combo, and the new style pulley combo, yet no broken belt. maybe i'm doing something wrong.

if i remember right, which i probably dont because i have never had to deal with a broken belt, the belts are 50 bucks or so.

[Model Citizen]

is the "new style" the cogged bits or is there a revision to them?

[SPCorBUST]

Originally Posted by tahdizzle

CARB is great. Congrats, but gonna have to wait to see what the e-force is gonna put out.

this kit isn't CARB approved.

they've been in the process for well over a year with no results. a lot of lies, though.

[SPCorBUST]

Originally Posted by kombatlion

I am really looking at this kit, but I am a little worried about the broken belts issue, are the belts expencive? are they easy to install?

if you read through the entirety of this thread, nearly all of the issues with this kit are belt related. personally i think its because of the dance owners have to play between whether the belt is too damn tight or too damn loose, having to settle for loose and loud, or tight and quiet but prone to snapping.

either way, you can look at the belt system with this kit as either the unique benefit or the critical flaw. this owner's thread has, unequivocally, more reports of snapped belts than any of the other kits. now is that representative of the entire body of customers? probably not, since we'll never know if the issues reported relative to the whole is more or less than average. however simply comparing this thread to other owner's kit threads, the frequency certainly says something, you can decide exactly what that is for yourself.

replacement belts are about $70 and are moderately easy to install, maybe a bit more difficult if you didn't install the kit yourself and/or aren't very handy. i'd look at belts as more of an ongoing maintenance cost for this kit considering how frequent they've been reported snapping. that being said, some folks haven't put too many miles on the kit so they haven't broken any belts, and some folks have put a lot of miles on the kit and still haven't broken any belts. conversely, some folks didn't put many miles at all on the kit and broke a belt, or put a lot of miles on the kit and then broke a belt. (or two or three)

the first owners have had this kit for just over a year now, so the vast majority of owners have less than one year of ownership under their belts. as a whole, owners are still in the learning/honeymoon phase of ownership - IMO there simply hasn't been enough time to expose any issues from long term ownership. to get the best picture of ownership so far and get an idea of the potential issues, start by reading the entire thread, and maybe asking about the experience from owners with the most miles and longest ownership. (you can find oldest from the first page)

i'd forego asking newer owners about their experiences in favor of those who have had the kit for longer and/or put more miles on their kit, and if you're cross-shopping kits, try to research or compare the kit's components as well.

[digital_assassin]

Hey guys. I've been mostly absent from this thread. If anyone wants me to add them to the owners list just PM me. Likewise, if there is any more recent and relevant information for the first post like new style gates belt #'s or #'s for the C38 system let me know so I can add to the first post.

[kombatlion]

Thanks Guys so far I like this kit better because of the fact that if something go wrong I stillcan drive my car. I read a lot of this tread but not all thwe 153 pages... Still working with some issues with my car being a Turbo first broke and now we have a new engine and need some power something more safe, like this kit.

[mit_peid]

I've never had a S/C belt snap, but I've had an OEM idler pulley seize on me with KW kit on. In my mind, I categorized it under "driver error" since I think it was a hard downshift into 3rd that was probably more of the root cause. Hopefully, it was a slightly defective OEM idler pulley too and replacing it resolved the issue long term for me. I thought the KW instructions on setting the tension to "21mm" wasn't too hard to follow-- never given me problems. I am curious as to whether an auto-tensioner along with a more traditional v-ribbed belt would have been a better design choice. If they do a "Rev2" of the C30 kit, these should be considerations (along with a CARB tune of course). The CARB thing has been frustrating and feels like a bait'n'switch business tactic. Hopefully they'll get the CARB settled before too long.


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[Jcl]

How can I get an extra belt @KraftWerks


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[D-VO]

Never had a belt snap on me. Had mine on since 6/17/14 and still running strong with no issues. The only problem I had was the initial chargepipe from the SC getting stretched out, but KW helped me out with it.