Supercharger

Challenging your comfort zone

Replacing A Miller Cycle Supercharger

Déjà vu all over again. A few decades later  years later my brother passed his Mazda Millenia S to my mother who then passed it down to me while I waited for the Toyota Sienna I ordered to arrive.

But as before, being the 3rd owner came with problems. This time it was blown seals on a supercharger that was the heart and lungs of the engine. The whole car was scrap without a working supercharger and a new one’s MRSP from the dealer was somewhere around $7K. A horseshoe was hiding somewhere when I found a used one that was in good condition from an engine where the bottom end was damaged.

If again I can quote a familiar expression, ” the operation was a success but the patient died”.

I was able to successfully transplant the super charger with the exception of a homeless vacuum hose that even the dealership couldn’t find a home for.

My wife drove it for just a month or so when on a bleak winters day she asked to switch cars with me due to the bad weather and that’s when the patient died. I ran a red light where I didn’t even see that there was a traffic light until there was a car in the intersection (that I also didn’t know I was about to enter) and in that moment two cars met their final end. Neither driver was injured beyond a minor knock to the head of the other driver.