Bought a Supercharger... Now I'm in a Mess

[Iceaxe]

Chalk this up to pure 100% Grade A Noob.

Bought a rebuilt gen 4 M90 Eaton SC for my Land Cruiser from a solid company who posted it on eBay. Unfortunately what I bought was just the head unit. No manifold, pulleys, etc. it was there in the fine print, but I newbed hard and failed to notice it.

So, what are my options?

A) totally screwed.
B) better call Saul.... er, I mean CDan
C) not even CDan can help you
D) why you SUCH a newb?!

 

[ranma21]

I saw that on Ebay while ago as well, about to buy one but not able to source other parts to make it work. Dan, Beno or Sam Stewart may be able to source them for you. Good luck man

 

[Iceaxe]

I'm the sucka that bought it.

 

[iwashmycar]

Relist it on eBay and make the fine print even finer?

 

[cruiserdan]

C

 

[Iceaxe]

Now I feel like crying

 

[2fpower]

Turn lemons into lemonaide. Fab up all the parts and sell it to all us suckers as this is unobtainium now.

 

[subzali]

Find another application that uses the M90 and sell it, marketed for that application and hope you don't lose too much money on the deal.

 

[NLXTACY]

Or hold on to it and wait for one of us to destroy ours and need a replacement. It'll get sold if it's the identical unit.

 

[DARKNESS]

Jon Bond performance, and other supercharger rebuild shops, buy supercharger cores. You could try to sell it to one of them, though I doubt you'd get what you bought it for.

 

[Finnyfam60]

Try Jason at cruiser yard for misc parts maybe... Idk...

 

[Iceaxe]

Anyone know of specific coordinates for getting ahold of Beno or someone else here who might have access to the parts?

 

[OGBeno]

CDan and I went over the parts for an SC one by one the other day and all of them are barely available so you can technically "build" an SC. But the main part missing that will not allow the SC to even be driven is the tensioner and bracket.

Someone should reverse engineer it and make a few dozen to correspond with the parts remaining in the Toyota system that Dan and I were able to see.

Oh and the worst part about it is piecing everything together is more expensive than the SC kit was from the dealer at full list price.

 

[Delancy]

C

Is for cookie, and cookie is for me....


"You get what you gets and you pays your money."

 

[Delancy]

Someone should reverse engineer it and make a few dozen to correspond with the parts remaining in the Toyota system

Wonder where one would find this rare, elusive part to reverse engineer???

 

[DARKNESS]

CDan and I went over the parts for an SC one by one the other day and all of them are barely available so you can technically "build" an SC. But the main part missing that will not allow the SC to even be driven is the tensioner and bracket.

Someone should reverse engineer it and make a few dozen to correspond with the parts remaining in the Toyota system that Dan and I were able to see.

Oh and the worst part about it is piecing everything together is more expensive than the SC kit was from the dealer at full list price.

I have one out. I'll look at it tomorrow. I think we know the model numbers of the gates pulleys. The arm is unknown but maybe it's a generic part as well. The rest is just a stamped piece of steel from what I remember.

 

[Iceaxe]

Beno and crew,
Jon Bond suggested someone could fab it up... Is that a rational thought?
Side note- what happens to wrecked FJ80s with SCs onboard?

 

[Iceaxe]

What I'm implying is I will pay to have this run to the end zone...

 

[NLXTACY]

To be honest, because of the low production numbers, the cost per unit would be pretty outrageous. The stamped steel is no biggie. The pulleys themselves are available along with the bolt. But the custom cam would be expensive to machine and the custom spring would be an issue as well. Not sure of the additional hardware inside. If I could get my hands on one, not my own, I could break it down and figure out what it would cost and if I could do it.

 

[Photoman]

I made one. It was a long time ago. Bottom in photo is original.