I purchased the m62 kit from pace performance a while back. I got installed correctly, took me about a day, I go to start it up to see if it works and after 2 mins the locks up. I know what you are thinking, that a bolt got in there and messed it up but that is not the case, there was a hard spot on the bearing and it wouldn't turn freely any longer, seemed to be fine when I put it on in the first place called pace and 3 weeks later they got me a new one. I put that one on and ran fine, I took it to the dealer got the reflash, took it for a test drive with no problems, not driving it hard at all just normal. My dad wanted to drive it to see what is like and at a stop light the charger locked up and stalled the engine. towed it back to my house at took the charger off the the charger was completely locked up and the fins were grind ed all the way down taking the teflon coating off, no evidence of anything entering the engine, nothing in manifold, I think the bearings went bad and the fins started hit each other. I have never heard of these these chargers being bad like this, I have seen 3.8 superchargers going bad in the nose piece but that is another story, has anybody have any ideas on what is going on? I noticed both had "RM" on the bottom of them does that mean re manufactured?

check and see if theres any oil in it



swapped, supercharged, intercooled, 2.9, fun

well, I just did that very thing I opened up the plug held it upside down and not a drop came out, now I was under the impression that it had oil from the factory and messing with the plug would kinda void the warranty, so that's the cause of it, and I am so pissed mainly because I wasn't smart enough to check in the first place, I returned in to stock now, cause now I just don't trust the reliability of any of their chargers, I got to go back to the dealer and get in re re flashed back to stock, it won't even hardly run now because it's running so rich, oh well, but thanks for the idea

Kyle Nunnally wrote:well, I just did that very thing I opened up the plug held it upside down and not a drop came out, now I was under the impression that it had oil from the factory and messing with the plug would kinda void the warranty, so that's the cause of it, and I am so pissed mainly because I wasn't smart enough to check in the first place, I returned in to stock now, cause now I just don't trust the reliability of any of their chargers, I got to go back to the dealer and get in re re flashed back to stock, it won't even hardly run now because it's running so rich, oh well, but thanks for the idea

Reliability of their chargers????????????


You run something WITHOUT oil and it is the RELIABILITY that is at FAULT???


Your kidding, right?

your right they work good with oil, but isn't supposed to have oil in it from the factory?

get another one check it for oil slap it on there and call it done.

I never thought to check for oil when I had the GM SC, it's supposed to be in their from GM.

its always a good idea to double check for oil even if it comes from factory, we had a guy put a new motor in a Dts at work didnt check for oil and blow the motor during a road test

the thing is about the supercharger is that it is assumed that it has oil in it GM doesn't like it if you open the plug because it shows that it has been tampered with it,possibly voided a warranty. a whole engine is different, matter of fact I've never had a long block or salvage engine with oil in it, it's typically assumed that there is no fluid in it and easy to check

on second thought, if I had the weird thought to check it. I would've put oil in it and been happy and not have to post this crap

did the instructions say to put oil in the charger. Should be able to get a new one again based on that fact alone. Worse case you can pickup the chargers for under $500.00 on e-bay.


-Chris