Damaged Impeller ??? I wouldn't chance trying to fix it with a dremel.

I agree. The impeller balance is critical. Arbitrarily grinding it to smooth it will throw it out of balance. Send it Vortech for repair.

I thought you ditched the sc coupler and went with a 3" intake in front of the wheel well.

I do have the intake in the wheel well, I reused that stillen 90 degree to rec back into intake pipe.

Im kinda f'd, my dyno tune is on the 24th. and I wont see speciality z back until next year...

Vortech said 4 week turn around.

I don't trust anyone besides vortech touching this thing.

I might just leave it, maybe it will be ok.. ill post pics in a few hours.

if not, my car is down for a whole year.. again.

So here it is, let me know what you guys think :(

http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...pslwhmpz12.jpg

That's not OK.

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Pull it and send it for professional repair. Sorry man...:icon14:

I wondering how it will boost. if I could get through my tune on the 24th, with out it blowing up lol.. then I should be good to go.

Ill send it out after the tune and have it rebuilt.

Funny thing is last year, right before I put her away, I got a knock out of her, im pretty sure it was this hitting my impeller.

It boosted fine 3 weeks ago, tuned great beside my haltech sensor **** out.

im kinda stumped here..

I have a friggen impeller sitting beside me, SI trim impeller that I never got around to getting installed. problem is I cant find a single machineshop/ shop that will touch it with a ten foot pole. vortech was 4 weeks, I might just split this baby today, see if I can do this myself.

If this doesn't go good, ill buy a new head unit.. have this one rebuilt, sell it or maybe keep it?

I wouldn't run it. What happens if a chunk of that comes loose when you're tuning and the motor gets a lungful of metal shavings?

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Not worth the risk IMO.

How long would it take to get a complete replacement? I'd go the new unit just so I could meet the tune date, then send this one for rebuild and either sell it with all the rebuild paperwork or keep it as a backup. :twocents:

Do NOT spin the SC up with that broken impeller. If it comes apart you will have much more problems.

Seriously, the impeller balance is critical and if reaches max operating rpm it could come apart. I would remove the drive belt NOW!

As Ghostvette said, if the tune date is this critical you would be better off with a new SC which you should be able to get very quick.

Good luck and sorry that this happened.

Also, did you find the part that broke and the missing piece of the impeller blade? you don't want those parts ingested by the engine!.

yeah I found the piece,


good news is.... the impeller is already changed. Super easy to do.

took my 15 minutes, the SCI trim was already marked for me so I lined up the marks and she went right in.

Now with the SCI trim my fuel wont hold up, but ill get sebz to set my limiter so I wont go lean and ill upgrade fuel this winter

Isn't sci a step down? You will run rich not lean.

I screwed that up lol, theres an SI in there now.