[Joe's_cool_1le]

Originally Posted by Want1

Hi Ted,

Thanks again for sharing all this info!

Any superchargers offering warranties that you know of?

I found an old article about the Whipple no longer offering it?

Thanks in advance!

There website still shows they do. quoted below.
"1 year limited warranty
Optional 3 year/36,000 mile warranty"

But in all honesty I wouldn't base my decision off of warranty alone even though I must say that any issues I've had with my Whipple (questions, issues with a tensioner that needed replacement, etc ... they helped me directly (even not being the vendor that did the install) with no questions asked. Granted I haven't had any catastrophic failures because of my SC but I have seen one member that may have and they took care of them if my memory serves me correctly. I'm sure they would chime in if they see this. I also believe that all of manufactures would have done the same. The major issue isn't so much the risk of the the SC but whether or not you push past the the canned tune and take the LT1 to it's limits.

In full disclosure I did have 2 ring land failures and I'm going forged but I was running a custom tune and doing long pulls which may have caused this failure. There are safe guards to help to insure your engine can handle it such as meth, better tuning, and other safe guards but truly once you start to push the limits of the stock internals you run the risk of failures. Then again you can beat up a stock system and have the same problems and dealerships can see that you tracked your car (different methods to determine that) and deny repairs based off of that under certain circumstances. i've recently seen that from someone that i know.

My advice for anyone wanting to add additional power is be prepared to pay out of pocket if something was to go wrong. My 42k OTD car is now probably X2. Lots of plusses with that and I love it.