How donu tell if a superchager is bad I bought a used one.... Thanks to anybody that can answer this

 

Is this the Jackson Racing M45 you were talking about a few weeks ago? What makes you think it's bad?

Typically it's the bearings that go bad, which would make it hard to turn (and very noisy). You should be also be able to flip over and see the fins on the internal rotor lobes. It's also possible the internal bypass is broken, but I think that's vacuum operated. Anything else would probably be a leak in the intake tubing.

Cvcrcr knows the Honda ones pretty well, so I'm sure he'll be along shortly with better info.

 

It would probably make a grinding type noise as Christian said. The bearings are the things that go out on them. However, there will be some noise to the system if you are just manually spinning by hand. Mine did when I had one.

 

Yeah it's out of the car and yes it's a jrc turns nice but wanted to know how can u tell I've had it just sitting in my garage now for a few weeks lol....I guess my next move is to put it on

 

whats it for? Just curious. I'd really like to put one on a d16z6. Good gas mileage and almost 200 hp with no turbo lag! awesome!

 

Better have a **** ton of bolt ons and work done for 200 whp on a JRSC D series.

 

I rounded up lol

 

It's going on a Honda civic 1996 ex

 

you're not putting it on a stock engine, are you? Superchargers build boost differently than turbo's do... I don't know if I'd wanna supercharge a stock D series, especially a y8 (known for oiling issues)

I mean, has it at least been rebuilt? (I'm gonna go look through your other threads to make sure I'm not making an *** of myself...)

EDIT - ah, my bad, it seems that CVCRCR has already schooled you on the ways of supercharging.

 

Shandles what do u mean oil issues it's a Jdm engine..don't have any oil problems now?