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Joined: Sep 2011
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From: Central Oklahoma
Welcome to the site. I personally prefer the supercharged motors myself. Main additional maintenance is just changing out the supercharger oil from time to time (manual calls for every 25k miles I think). But to each their own. Hope you get the one you want.
"L67 swap makes the panties drop"
Go with the one in the best condition... a supercharger is always a plus though... There is really no additional maintenance, just the blower oil
Go with the one in the best condition... a supercharger is always a plus though... There is really no additional maintenance, just the blower oil
I don't really understand how a supercharger is a plus, unless it's like a Corvette ZR-1 or something, GMs lower end cars with superchargers usually suck.
Yeah, but my family is determined that if someone is selling their car, it's becuase something is wrong with it, even though I'm trying to trade my blazer, and there is nothing wrong with it mechanically.
I'll give up on this point I think before I make too many enemies.. :P
But I will say one thing..
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Originally Posted by zabolots 
Now that cars are moving from larger naturally-aspirated engines to smaller forced-induction (turbo, supercharged) engines, will this have any impact on engine durability? FI obviously has much higher cylinder pressures. Won't this reduce reliability over the long haul?
You bring up a legitimate point. As others have said the hard parts that never fail on a NA engine are usually upgraded and also do not typically fail in the FI model. However if you look at reliability ratings of two otherwise identical cars (GP GT vs GP GTP) you will see much higher maintenance costs with the FI car.
As the happy owner of many previous FI cars just take a look under the hood of a 5 year old turbo car and compare it to any NA car. The turbos put a tremendous amount of extra heat under the hood and there is no question it prematurely kills belts, hoses and other plastic bits."
This is a post from BigSwede on..
Link: Engine reliability: NA vs FI
But I will say one thing..
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Originally Posted by zabolots Now that cars are moving from larger naturally-aspirated engines to smaller forced-induction (turbo, supercharged) engines, will this have any impact on engine durability? FI obviously has much higher cylinder pressures. Won't this reduce reliability over the long haul?
You bring up a legitimate point. As others have said the hard parts that never fail on a NA engine are usually upgraded and also do not typically fail in the FI model. However if you look at reliability ratings of two otherwise identical cars (GP GT vs GP GTP) you will see much higher maintenance costs with the FI car.
As the happy owner of many previous FI cars just take a look under the hood of a 5 year old turbo car and compare it to any NA car. The turbos put a tremendous amount of extra heat under the hood and there is no question it prematurely kills belts, hoses and other plastic bits."
This is a post from BigSwede on..
Link: Engine reliability: NA vs FI
Last edited by brendan127; Jan 22, 2012 at 11:54 AM.
