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Old 05-13-2005, 08:00 PM
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OK, so for the past two days, my car would make a whistle sound from the supercharger whenever I gave it gas, and was different than the supercharger whine, I mean it was a high pitched whistle. Now today, drove fine to my brothers ball game, and after, started it up and went to hit to get on the highway, and no power! I can't stand not having my SC! Somebody please help me! Any ideas on what I should do? Thanks in advance! ~Brad
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i think there is more to this than a bad SC.. is the check engine light on??? im thinking there is another problem causing the computer to dump the boost.
Old 05-13-2005, 08:09 PM
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No lights came on or anything, no warning lights, nothing. Just quit working. I can get it to 0 boost though when accelerating.
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id remove the belt and see how the charger turns...
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if the charger is locked up wouldnt it not get air at all and not run??? i could be wrong.. im not sure how they are sey up...
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U can run with out the */C.....But i'* real doggy though for the */C'd cars are of a lower compression. I'm thinking maybe a bad BCS? As Harofreak stated.....Pop the belt off and see how it turns. And then we shall go from there.
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i would think that with the low compression and lack of boost it would run like complete ***
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Yup, it does....I've seen it before on a GTP that limped to a friends house one day with a fragged */C belt. Just like to point out too, I forgot to in my first post, */C'* don't just "stop" working. Normally something else going on to affect the performance of the */C.

Do you know where that whistle is coming from?
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I can only hear it when I am driving under hard acceleration, and it sounds like the */C. I will have to take the belt off tomorrow night after work and take a look at it. Thanks
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Sounds very much like a vacuum leak. Always check for the simple things first. Good luck!


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