Has anyone else polished their supercharger? I would like ot see pics of others. Here is a pic of mine. I got a ways to go till im finished.
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L67fiero
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Good looking blower...plan to do that to mine...and a few more others.
Eaton designed the blowers with a "krinkle" finish, the roughness that is part of the mold when the housings are made. Eaton claimes they help cool the supercharger, by allowing the air to get closer to the housing and help pull the heat away. Kinda like the heat fins that are already there on the housing. But think of it as a smaller fin.
FieroX, that guy polished his, and painted his snout orange, before he went to a turbo set up. From normal operating engine timp, and we both had 180* t-stats, he had an electric temp. guage, you know one of those hand held ones, both engine temps, exhaust temps, and SC housing temps were the same...as close as two combined could get, we started them up at the same time, and went for a short WOT run down the highway, and pulled into a parking lot, he opened his hood I opened mine, and took the temps again...his was cooler...by a larger difference.
Weiand, Holley, Vortech, Procharger, Powerdyne, Kenny Bell, all their superchargers come polished, or you can get them in a satin finish ofcorse. What do you have to say about theirs...and their choise of finish on their housings?
I myself am going to polish mine too. Its going to get hot no matter what...might as well make it look cool.
~Farnsworth~
Eaton designed the blowers with a "krinkle" finish, the roughness that is part of the mold when the housings are made. Eaton claimes they help cool the supercharger, by allowing the air to get closer to the housing and help pull the heat away. Kinda like the heat fins that are already there on the housing. But think of it as a smaller fin.
FieroX, that guy polished his, and painted his snout orange, before he went to a turbo set up. From normal operating engine timp, and we both had 180* t-stats, he had an electric temp. guage, you know one of those hand held ones, both engine temps, exhaust temps, and SC housing temps were the same...as close as two combined could get, we started them up at the same time, and went for a short WOT run down the highway, and pulled into a parking lot, he opened his hood I opened mine, and took the temps again...his was cooler...by a larger difference.
Weiand, Holley, Vortech, Procharger, Powerdyne, Kenny Bell, all their superchargers come polished, or you can get them in a satin finish ofcorse. What do you have to say about theirs...and their choise of finish on their housings?
I myself am going to polish mine too. Its going to get hot no matter what...might as well make it look cool.
~Farnsworth~
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A lot and I mean a lot of elbow grease.
I have 4 superchargers to polish, and while they are apart I am going to port and polish the inlet, and port the outlet. To do it correctly, you want to completely dissemble the supercharger, noting and I mean nothing can be in or on it before you start. The buffing compound that you use will eat bearings alive if those are not removed.
Pluss on the re-rebuild, its always a good idea to go ahead and rebuild the snout and replace the coupler and rotor bearings while everything is apart. I plan to do that on all of these blowers I have.
The snout has paint on it from Eaton, so you will have to have that removed = sand blasting, but you want them to use the finest sand possible so it doesnt make too ruff of a surface once the paint is removed. Remember, you will have to polish all of that out.
I would charge somebody once the blower was all taken apart completely $180.00 to polish the blower housing and the snout. It will take some additional work to get into all of the little corrners and creases of the blower and snout...lot of man hours involved.
If your not in a hurry...its something anybody can do. A good idea would be buy a used blower and start working on that, and rebuild it, and then all you would have to do is install it some afteroon and your car wouldnt have any down time.
I bought these 4 blowers to do this to, and resell as a ported and polished (inside and out) M90. One will go on my engine I'm building now, so I will have 3 left. I think one is even a '97 blower, so those guys can have an exact swap over.
~Farnsworth~
I have 4 superchargers to polish, and while they are apart I am going to port and polish the inlet, and port the outlet. To do it correctly, you want to completely dissemble the supercharger, noting and I mean nothing can be in or on it before you start. The buffing compound that you use will eat bearings alive if those are not removed.
Pluss on the re-rebuild, its always a good idea to go ahead and rebuild the snout and replace the coupler and rotor bearings while everything is apart. I plan to do that on all of these blowers I have.
The snout has paint on it from Eaton, so you will have to have that removed = sand blasting, but you want them to use the finest sand possible so it doesnt make too ruff of a surface once the paint is removed. Remember, you will have to polish all of that out.
I would charge somebody once the blower was all taken apart completely $180.00 to polish the blower housing and the snout. It will take some additional work to get into all of the little corrners and creases of the blower and snout...lot of man hours involved.
If your not in a hurry...its something anybody can do. A good idea would be buy a used blower and start working on that, and rebuild it, and then all you would have to do is install it some afteroon and your car wouldnt have any down time.
I bought these 4 blowers to do this to, and resell as a ported and polished (inside and out) M90. One will go on my engine I'm building now, so I will have 3 left. I think one is even a '97 blower, so those guys can have an exact swap over.
~Farnsworth~
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Naa I wouldnt paint them. The most I would do if you had to paint something is to paint the snout...or TB. As for the case...leave it be or in our case polish it just to raise hell.
I dont have any pictures of my polished blowers yet, but when I get one done I will post them to show them off, dont worry. You would think that to polish aluminum would be a little easier...ha! But once its done...and done right...gonna look bad ass!
~Farnsworth~
I dont have any pictures of my polished blowers yet, but when I get one done I will post them to show them off, dont worry. You would think that to polish aluminum would be a little easier...ha! But once its done...and done right...gonna look bad ass!
~Farnsworth~
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From Page 1:the driver said:
If you have the blower and YOU completely, and I mean completely take it apart, thats what I would charge to do the snout and case.GR8racingfool said:
As in completely taken apart I mean, the snout: bearings removed.
The case: EVERYthing removed from the inside to the outside, no rotors, no case bearings, no PCV system parts, it must be a nakid case and snout.
If you do not know how to remove any of these parts, email me and we will settle on a price if you want to send me the blower and have me remove parts. I would not recomend reusing any of the old, orignal parts again. Get you a snout rebuild kit, and coupler from ZZP, get you some housing bearings from WPI, if that guy is still doing that thing, I heard he was ill, and not active anymore.
Sounds like a plan to you...drop me a line. GR8racingfool@yahoo.com
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