Habitforming

And you're still being very helpful as usual, thanks for another valuable contribution.

This is the only failure of its kind. Enough said.

killerbee_vr6

Are we collecting failures like Pokemon cards now?


Full set coming soon

beechx1

Many motorcycles use cog belts as the final drive. Many cars use cog belts instead of timing chains.

Habitforming

gotta love the ignore function

s.hasan546

do your comments really help?

S2000ABQ

On your other thread you posted about the blower seizing when you were on the dyno, did you happen to reuse those bolts? You had obvious signs of wear implying the blower pulley was either not fully secured or improperly torqued. If so, this should not be that big of a surprise, the forces the blower is dealing with at high rpm is immense. The amount of stress on those bolts after a blower seizure would likely lead to some weakness, I don't care who manufactures the kit, I highly doubt anyone would recommend you to reuse those after the first failure.

killerbee_vr6

No better than denying the obvious

0bsolete

No better than denying the obvious
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The community is trying to help out another member here, as well as other members who have issues. If you don't have anything to contribute, best not post anything at all.

Bran916

After that incident, i received a new blower along with new bolts

s2000Junky

Not related. Clearly the accessory component/aka blower is providing more resistance/force then what its mounts were engineered for by KW. I guarantee that if the belt wasn’t cogged, it would slip just enough to take enough of the force to not cause breakage. No guarantee titanium replacement bolts will stand the test of time either. Also simply bouncing off the rpm limiter (as is often done on a supercharged equipped s2k) creates a lot of rapid forces/tugging on this system, which it can’t cope with because it’s cogged. This particular failure is one of many so far, not sure why this thread is surprising at this point.

Im just deducting from all the KW breakage threads to this point and concluding where the weaknesses are that im seeing. Poor instillation can always add to the variable, but im finding that alone to not be the sol cause of all the same issues this kit is having with broken blower and mounting bolts. When KW says not to hit the rev limiter with this kit - which is unrealistic... because its too fragile to deal with the stresses of that, it raises more red flags. No other standard belt supercharger kit has these issues. I would never recommend this kit to any of our local members, because its simply not proving to be reliable enough. But like anything there is always the exception, so you can take your chances if this kit offers something substantially better then say an SOS kit, where taking the risk is worth it. I don’t think so myself.