Just curious, how often do most of you change your S/C oil? I need to do mine here again soon. You'd be surprised how many stock high mileage GTPs out there that never had this done to them.
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Just curious, how often do most of you change your S/C oil? I need to do mine here again soon. You'd be surprised how many stock high mileage GTPs out there that never had this done to them.
I change mine, and the GF's yearly. I rev my engine higher than she does cause thats just how I drive it, and I go to the track and race, but she sees more miles on her car, yearly, and rarely does her's ever see boost. I want to take care of our superchargers for sure, especially hers, as I polished and rebuilt a brand new supercharger for her car.
Its cheap, and not worth the risk to let it go any longer IMO. I refill using only GM SC oil. I buy it by the case of 12 from the dealership and they give me a price break.
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Is that all thats involved in changing the sc oil? I need to do mine because I have no idea if it has ever been changed. How much oil is in there? do you just take out what you can then put the same amount back in? sorry for the noob questions but I am new to superchargers.
^ its easy. Smelly...but easy.
General rule, if you don't know...then it has never been changed most likely.
How much is in there?
There is only about 8oz. Two 4oz. bottles of the GM supercharger oil is all you need to fill it. Some times more, sometimes less. Any GM dealership should have this in stock most the time. Its usually about $7.00 or $8.00 a bottle.
You have the right idea, take out, or in your soon-to-be-caseSUCK out all you can, and refill to the bottom of the threads where the plug goes. Some times direct sun light or a flash light is a good aid in this to see down in there good. You cannot really over fill it, but you can under fill it. As long as its to the bottom of the threads of the fill hole, your good.
Comes out pretty smelly, so don't get it on you or your cloths. Normal color is dark ice tea looking color to black at times. But it goes in perfectly clear brand new from the bottle.
What I do is suck it out, and transfer it to another bottle that has a screw on seal able lid to store the oil in. I use old rubbing alcohol bottles myself. At any given time, i could have about 3 or 4 of them filled up.
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I use a 60 ml syringe and a 10 fr. suction catheter. Works like a charm.
Last edited by NickT'sGTP; 07-26-2008 at 04:18 PM.
Has anybody used the intense racing supercharger oil? I have been buying a few things from them and they seem to know their stuff. They have an 8 oz bottle for the same price as the 4 oz GM oil and they say its chemicly exact and they even get it from the same manufacturer.
Could not tell you honestly.
They probably do the same thing ZZP does and buy the oil by the 55 gallon barrel in bulk, and for some odd reason don't hike up the price cause they are getting a price break buying in bulk like that. Or calling it their "own special mixture" and charing more etc.
I personally use, run and install in all my blowers official GM SC oil. For now.The "for now" was a hint to everyone else that something is brewing here locally.
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