I moved my car this AM, to get ready for pickup scheduled in 10 hrs to head to Vegas. I heard a weird sound from the supercharger and had a good friend, who is a great race mechanic, look at it early this am. Car drove fine about 2 weeks ago, and sounded normal, albeit a pesky supercharger belt squeak which I thought nothing of. Only first noticed sounds today.
He said he is positive it is an internal problem in the Whipple (it’s a Gen 2). In his words, either ‘ a gear to gear problem ‘ or perhaps the ‘rotors are hitting each other because of a bad bearing’. He was confidant it was not the idler / tensioner pulley or belt.
His advice was not to take the car to Vegas, as if the Whipple went out completely during hard driving, ‘it would be really bad if it chewed up metal parts and spit them in the engine…’ Yikes.
Any thoughts appreciated as at this point, as will probably not transport car.
Bummer on my end.
He said he is positive it is an internal problem in the Whipple (it’s a Gen 2). In his words, either ‘ a gear to gear problem ‘ or perhaps the ‘rotors are hitting each other because of a bad bearing’. He was confidant it was not the idler / tensioner pulley or belt.
His advice was not to take the car to Vegas, as if the Whipple went out completely during hard driving, ‘it would be really bad if it chewed up metal parts and spit them in the engine…’ Yikes.
Any thoughts appreciated as at this point, as will probably not transport car.
Bummer on my end.
Crisis averted!