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Mine was right around 3k...IIRC, I pulled the trigger when Tone had a sale price of $2800.00.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robbomaz
Easily spent another $200 on peripherals, tools, heater hose, anti freeze, this that & the other.
One of the best smiles per mile investments since I bought the truck...:yesgray:
Awwww c'mon! We were planning to be buying Steve Jobs out of Apple with the profits :smilewinkQuote:
Originally Posted by vt_maverick
I do know Alpine made no money on their kits - and our plan was always to cover costs while making a bunch of Isuzu drivers grin like idiots :bwgy: rather than apply retail margins.
We have sunk about $16K into this so far.......and Alpine still owe us intake pipes and fuel rails, which they have been promising for months.:uhohgray:
We will get there! Regarding shipping if a few guys in the US end up wanting them I reckon something could be worked out that wouldnt involve dropping the pants & bending over....
Ah, Alpine made you a promise.... give up. They made me promises for roughly 3 years. A promise that has never been fulfilled.
I was one of the few that bought it way back when first offered by Tone. I believe it was like $3200. Of course, it sat for many years in a box in my basement till I decided to go ahead and install it. All has been great.... though I can't find a decent boost gauge. Been through 2 already and just not happy with them.
What brand gauges? And not happy with the look or something? I ran Auto Meter for my last boosted vehicle with no issues. Had a GlowShift one in the VX that worked good but never saw boost before I got rid of it.
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The kits originally went for 3,000 and he had a sale at 2800 once and I waited and he had a "super sale" around Christmas and I couldn't resist... I picked it up for 2600 I think. Around 2850 total, shipped to AK.
I realllllly want to get a supercharger for my vx really bad
I bought mine directly from Alpine, back in September 2002 for $2600. Since then I've replaced the blower with a rebuilt one that John from Alpine just happened to have. I also went through 3 EGR blocks and am on my second tension pulley bearing. Good news is my VX has 180K miles on it, with 115K of that supercharged. I finally got tired of messing with stripped out threads on my EGR block and had a machinist friend of mine make a block out of ductile iron.
It looks like you guys are really close to getting this thing done.
Way to go!
I am up for one of those kits.
I haven't follow up lately this thread,but waiting to see when rob will have everything together.
Sorry for the thread jack but just had to say hello to Zu4two which I haven't seen around here for a very long time. Hope everything has turned around for you and all is going well. Z42 was along on a few of my very first wheeling VX get togethers!:yesy:
Alpine installed the SC kit on my 3.2V6 crew cab back in 2000. Price was around $2800 at that time. I have since done close to 120K miles without any problems with the kit. In 04, we changed the pulley and upped the boost to 0.4bar. I still have the M62 blower on mine and would love to upgrade to the new M90 kit you guys are busy with. :bwgy:
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Originally Posted by RamAirZ
All AutoMeter. I had tried 2 different ones which I can't recall the models (one had a C/F facing and the other very plain Jane white), but am now using a Cobalt. The previous 2 both decided to just slowly stop working. Not a fan of the Cobalt either so looking to try something different. I am considering trying an SPT gauge from the STi (not mine of course) just because I love the way it looks, heh. Pricey bastards though.
The Alpine S/C on my proton cost around $3200 back around 2004 and it's worked great sicne then.
Also, if anyone's INTERESTED? I do have the original Alpine Manual that came witih my S/C that I can copy for anyone and email to you :bgwo: just in case someone would like one.
I just rebuilt my engine, transmission and transfercase. Put it all back together with the super charger, original Tone/ Alpine $2850 I believe. It has been on for about 70k and worked great. Was wanting to change the super charger oil , any one know what to put in it?
Dan
I might have a manual, think it came on a CD. Do you think that you can upload yours, BeeVenom, it to the file section?
Just get GM Supercharger oil from a dealer. It's pretty cheap. Like $8-$9 a bottle. I think that is what Tone used to recommend.