Innovate (Sprintex) Supercharger Owners Topic

[jerseymike1966]

I have read most of this entire thread. I learned a lot and am ready to get my SC in a couple weeks. Does anyone have an open source base tune they can send me. I would like to use it to create a tune for my car. One with a BOOD cal ID would be ideal, but any cal ID would do, to use as a reference. Thanks. Mike

[brybot]

Originally Posted by Njjawn

Has anyone had issues with a JB performance catch can mod on their supercharger? The bottom of my hood has some residual oil shit on it above the catch can. It was installed by JB when the supercharger was undergoing a rebuild.

No issues with the oil catch can (dumb, but I'm assuming that's the cylinder sticking out and backwards on the left of the housing), but I've had some oil shit slowly build around my oil sight glass. My unit was with them basically all last Spring ('16) when it seemed like he was having personnel issues.

Think it's worth an email to JB or should we just see if we can seal them up?

[Njjawn]

Originally Posted by brybot

No issues with the oil catch can (dumb, but I'm assuming that's the cylinder sticking out and backwards on the left of the housing), but I've had some oil shit slowly build around my oil sight glass. My unit was with them basically all last Spring ('16) when it seemed like he was having personnel issues.

Think it's worth an email to JB or should we just see if we can seal them up?

Honestly, the car is going to moto east this week.... maybe I'll just leave that in their hands lol.

[walletsr]

If anyone is interested I took off my 335 kit and will be posting it for sale tomorrow.

[continuecrushing]

Originally Posted by walletsr

If anyone is interested I took off my 335 kit and will be posting it for sale tomorrow.

Alright 210 people, someone upgrade and join me!!!!

Although, I did get my new clutch in, so I'll dyno in the next month or two. Ideally, I'll go back to the same place that my 210 dyno'd at to give a good comparison.

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by walletsr

If anyone is interested I took off my 335 kit and will be posting it for sale tomorrow.

What madness you speak. Why are selling

[walletsr]

It's a great kit, my car was leased and it's ending. Moving on to a 5 series or gt350

[riboyster]

Originally Posted by walletsr

It's a great kit, my car was leased and it's ending. Moving on to a 5 series or gt350

[stockysnail]

Not taking over the lease and getting a BMW 5 series or Mustang gt350 reminds me of a movie quote.

"Those boards don't work on water!" "Unless you got power!"

[walletsr]

if you guys are interested here is my for sale post http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...31#post2908631

[ajcarson11]

Hey all -- Anyone have an older Innovate 210 without a 'sight glass' that shows the level of the SC oil? Mine just has a dipstick, and I find it to be darn-near-useless. The fluid isn't dark enough to see where on the dipstick that it lands, and by the time you screw it in all the way to get an accurate reading i'm concerned that the reading isn't accurate.

Am I somehow reading the dipstick wrong? I typically take it out, wipe it clear, place it into the SC, screw it in, take it back out and look for any sign of fluid. Should I be turning it some weird direction? It's not like an oil-reading where the fluid sticks nicely to the dipstick between 2 points.

My solution has been to completely drain and replace the oil every 2 oil changes. But I sure wish I had an easier way to read things.

[stockysnail]

Originally Posted by ajcarson11

Hey all -- Anyone have an older Innovate 210 without a 'sight glass' that shows the level of the SC oil? Mine just has a dipstick, and I find it to be darn-near-useless. The fluid isn't dark enough to see where on the dipstick that it lands, and by the time you screw it in all the way to get an accurate reading i'm concerned that the reading isn't accurate.

Am I somehow reading the dipstick wrong? I typically take it out, wipe it clear, place it into the SC, screw it in, take it back out and look for any sign of fluid. Should I be turning it some weird direction? It's not like an oil-reading where the fluid sticks nicely to the dipstick between 2 points.

My solution has been to completely drain and replace the oil every 2 oil changes. But I sure wish I had an easier way to read things.

What I do that seems to work is take the stick out, wipe it clean, put it back in and take it out placing it on a clean paper towl. You'll be able to see where the oil is in relation to the mark on the stick that way from the oil on the paper towl. Make sure when you do this you either jack up the rear of the car or something else to get the top of the supercharger level to the ground. If you don't you'll be overfilling it and possibly slowly damaging it from too much oil.

I'm lucky in that the entrance to my garage is perfect to have my front end sticking out and rear in the garage which sloaps up a little, making the supercharger level without the need to jack it up.

[CarzCarzCarz]

Originally Posted by stockysnail

What I do that seems to work is take the stick out, wipe it clean, put it back in and take it out placing it on a clean paper towl. You'll be able to see where the oil is in relation to the mark on the stick that way from the oil on the paper towl. Make sure when you do this you either jack up the rear of the car or something else to get the top of the supercharger level to the ground. If you don't you'll be overfilling it and possibly slowly damaging it from too much oil.

I'm lucky in that the entrance to my garage is perfect to have my front end sticking out and rear in the garage which sloaps up a little, making the supercharger level without the need to jack it up.

Yup, I used the same method of using the paper towel to see where the level of oil is on the dipstick. I was always surprised just how much I had to jack the rear end up to get my SC level. My tools for SC oil change/check - Jack, Level, & allen wrench + paper towel.

[ajcarson11]

Thanks Fellas --- I agree that jacking up the rear end is a pain. Adds 20 minutes to the project while I jack up each side individually.

The fluid that came out after 10,000 miles was darker.. so It didn't hurt to change, especially since it only takes 157ml.

The instructions are REALLY specific ('Only put in exactly 157ml'). I'm hoping you can over/undershoot by several ml. I can't imagine the tolerances are SO tight that having 162ml or something is a problem.