Raptor V ownership in the longer term.

[Raptorsc]

Some information for those thinking about Raptor V and long term maintainence/rebuild costs etc.

Should you ever have to have your Raptor rebuilt the cost will never exceed $300 for a full rebuild (2 x ceramic, 2 x standard ball bearing and 1 high speed belt and labour included), this is important to know and worth comparing to other systems that could be considered for your V6.

Raptor V is the lowest cost to refurbish to new specifications of any SC in Australia, definitely the lowest cost SC in terms of total life cost. Turn around time is overnight when possible.

How often would this need doing? We don't know, have never recieved a unit back from a Holden yet, these actually spin slower than the Vs on 4 cyl cars. Some of the Mitsubishi units have been out there for many years now, a couple of those had warranty work on them being very early units but that is what warranty is for, no charge to customer. How often the rebuild need to happen will depend on how brutally the unit is treated, but rest assured each time you get a rebuild you will have charger as good as the day you bought it.

Use this thread for questions about the Supercharger itself

[keza87]

Hi,

My supercharger has managed to eat the internal belt.
It is possible to get another belt and change it myself or will it need to go back to Raptor?

Regards,
Kieran

[vr_owner]

do you have a bov that is designed for a turbo?

[radarak47]

Call Tim mate,

This would be a warranty issue as they are covered for 12 months.

[Raptorsc]

Kieran emailed me today, it will be renewed, possible faulty belt won't know until it gets here.

Otherwise will be back up an running again real soon, no charge to Kieran of course.

A note to every person who ever reads this thread, in the event of warranted repair all Raptor V units must come back to Raptor for warranty work, the service is free therefore there is no benefit touching something you WILL stuff up.

[radarak47]

That is very reasurring Tim

Gotta love the cost even if it is out of Warranty, I have spent more than that on most things I have done to the car.

[burnz]

very cheap indeed.
$300 for a full rebuild (2 x ceramic, 2 x standard ball bearing and 1 high speed belt and labour included),

do you service other brand's or just your own??___(i understand different belt's, bearings, tollerances)
cheer's chris.

[TVS]

Well ours is going in for Tim to rebuild, but not because of any probs, just because its changing cars and may as well have a freshen up while its off. We have had it on our VN for about 3 years now and it was daily driven every day by my wife, drag raced and toured in and never, ever missed a beat.
Damo

[tanner892]

hey wanting to know the price on a raptor V for an SV6, ive looked on your site which sais $2200, so is this all that is required or are there other things that are needed? the site doesnt mention what power boost im likely to get from this system, it sais upto 10psi but KW and NM wise what am i looking at from 190kw and 340nm?

[Raptorsc]

Tanner

The kit price is $7350 for intercooled Alloytec kit. Will give you around 220 - 235rwkw and around 700Nm at the tyres.

[NVE_069]

^^^^^^^ Which is about what a LS1 gets with a tune :P, But isnt bad for a 6 IMHO

Still looking at getting 1 for my 5.7 tho Will know soon

[Raptorsc]

NVE

The LS1 is steadily coming together in Bris I believe

[STL17]

Tim i would also like to know the price of a belt and can i intall myself

Hi,

My supercharger has managed to eat the internal belt.
It is possible to get another belt and change it myself or will it need to go back to Raptor?

Regards,
Kieran

[Raptorsc]

STL

email me at: raptorsc@westnet.com.au and request the servicing document.

You can check it out and see if you are up the to task and then decide if you want to do it or not

[STL17]

Thanks tim will do ill also be coming to see you in the next few weeks to pic your brain

[Raptorsc]

Ok dok

Didnt realise you were only Tville away