Supercharger

[Ldub]

A couple of questions for Those That Went Before:
Anyone remember what the original Alpine kit sold for?

And did anyone end up buying one of those $250 SCs Magnusson sold on eBay? (we bought four)

Mine was right around 3k...IIRC, I pulled the trigger when Tone had a sale price of $2800.00.

Easily spent another $200 on peripherals, tools, heater hose, anti freeze, this that & the other.

One of the best smiles per mile investments since I bought the truck...

[Robbomaz]

I think the Alpine kit was like $500 or something.

J/k, I think it was at least $2500 or possibly as high as $3500. But please please please try to keep it lower if you can, especially for those of us in the States who will get absolutely RAPED on the shipping.

Awwww c'mon! We were planning to be buying Steve Jobs out of Apple with the profits

I do know Alpine made no money on their kits - and our plan was always to cover costs while making a bunch of Isuzu drivers grin like idiots rather than apply retail margins.

We have sunk about $16K into this so far.......and Alpine still owe us intake pipes and fuel rails, which they have been promising for months.

We will get there! Regarding shipping if a few guys in the US end up wanting them I reckon something could be worked out that wouldnt involve dropping the pants & bending over....

[WormGod]

Ah, Alpine made you a promise.... give up. They made me promises for roughly 3 years. A promise that has never been fulfilled.

I was one of the few that bought it way back when first offered by Tone. I believe it was like $3200. Of course, it sat for many years in a box in my basement till I decided to go ahead and install it. All has been great.... though I can't find a decent boost gauge. Been through 2 already and just not happy with them.

[RamAirZ]

What brand gauges? And not happy with the look or something? I ran Auto Meter for my last boosted vehicle with no issues. Had a GlowShift one in the VX that worked good but never saw boost before I got rid of it.

[AlaskaVX]

The kits originally went for 3,000 and he had a sale at 2800 once and I waited and he had a "super sale" around Christmas and I couldn't resist... I picked it up for 2600 I think. Around 2850 total, shipped to AK.

[SouthJ1]

I realllllly want to get a supercharger for my vx really bad

[Zu4two]

I bought mine directly from Alpine, back in September 2002 for $2600. Since then I've replaced the blower with a rebuilt one that John from Alpine just happened to have. I also went through 3 EGR blocks and am on my second tension pulley bearing. Good news is my VX has 180K miles on it, with 115K of that supercharged. I finally got tired of messing with stripped out threads on my EGR block and had a machinist friend of mine make a block out of ductile iron.

It looks like you guys are really close to getting this thing done.

Way to go!

[Gussie2000]

I am up for one of those kits.
I haven't follow up lately this thread,but waiting to see when rob will have everything together.

[Triathlete]

Sorry for the thread jack but just had to say hello to Zu4two which I haven't seen around here for a very long time. Hope everything has turned around for you and all is going well. Z42 was along on a few of my very first wheeling VX get togethers!

[Impi]

Alpine installed the SC kit on my 3.2V6 crew cab back in 2000. Price was around $2800 at that time. I have since done close to 120K miles without any problems with the kit. In 04, we changed the pulley and upped the boost to 0.4bar. I still have the M62 blower on mine and would love to upgrade to the new M90 kit you guys are busy with.

[WormGod]

What brand gauges? And not happy with the look or something? I ran Auto Meter for my last boosted vehicle with no issues. Had a GlowShift one in the VX that worked good but never saw boost before I got rid of it.

All AutoMeter. I had tried 2 different ones which I can't recall the models (one had a C/F facing and the other very plain Jane white), but am now using a Cobalt. The previous 2 both decided to just slowly stop working. Not a fan of the Cobalt either so looking to try something different. I am considering trying an SPT gauge from the STi (not mine of course) just because I love the way it looks, heh. Pricey bastards though.

[BeeVenom]

The Alpine S/C on my proton cost around $3200 back around 2004 and it's worked great sicne then.
Also, if anyone's INTERESTED? I do have the original Alpine Manual that came witih my S/C that I can copy for anyone and email to you just in case someone would like one.

[hughesdt]

I just rebuilt my engine, transmission and transfercase. Put it all back together with the super charger, original Tone/ Alpine $2850 I believe. It has been on for about 70k and worked great. Was wanting to change the super charger oil , any one know what to put in it?

Dan

[hughesdt]

I might have a manual, think it came on a CD. Do you think that you can upload yours, BeeVenom, it to the file section?

[WormGod]

Just get GM Supercharger oil from a dealer. It's pretty cheap. Like $8-$9 a bottle. I think that is what Tone used to recommend.