Quote Originally Posted by johnnyapollo View Post
The SC that shipped from Alpine was an MP92. I'm not sure about the differences but I can tell from the photo in the eBay ad that the drive (*nose) is considerably longer. I have one of the earlier cast drives (later units shipped with a billet aluminum drive) and the bearings are shot - I'm looking to get it rebuilt now. I know from some threads on here that the Alpine configuration on the drive is less than ideal - you might want to research it a bit as several have had their units rebuilt.

I'm thinking about porting the manifold before putting it back on - the whole kit has been sitting in a box since the middle of last year - fortunatly I had an extra complete manifold (from a Trooper) that I used to swap out so I didn't have to deal with the o-rings and fuel rails - just left them on the kit manifold.

-- John
Thanks for that John. Good to hear of problems with the Alpine system. Keep the complaints coming folks

Agreed good snout support is vital for longevity of the drive
We are looking at how the V8 boys support the snout on the big blowers, and the sort of maintenance they get, and I am talking to a firm here in OZ that uses MP90 on Isuzu 3.5's in aircraft. Can't just pull over if you have a failure.....
The vehicles we are doing here are taking us to very remote locations on so very rough roads so reliability is paramount - last year one guy made an 1100 mile round trip to civilisation & back when a wheel bearing on a vehicle failed on the Canning Stock Route The driver of the broken car got to camp in Nowhere, AUS for a week - possible to get a VERY long way from anything at all in this place!
Rob