Blower wait times for delivery?

[Endokendal]

Not really, the kits are the same, just minus the flash tool and fueling, which we made sure whipple got out right away.



This was on our end. You swapped the kits and we swapped the order in the system, removed the custom tuning, and changed it to whipples complete kit. The gals in the office made all the changes, but omitted whipple in the email. So it was our job to change it.

100% our end. Not whipples fault, and i know they took care of getting the extra parts out right away! I've never had an issue they didn't take care of really fast!

Thanks Beefcake... you guys have been great and you immediately jumped on my replacement oil pump gears for the first set that I was sure I broke... which Boundary shipped off to me and are due to arrive Tuesday... but I’ll be sending them right back unused... more to come on that later...

Installed my kit all this past week along with the OPG and sprocket... missed one connector/wire for the throttle body and could get it to start up and keep running obviously. Connector is on the underside of the throttle body so I didn’t notice it, the connector wire was underneath my air box, and the Whipple instructions never call out that particular one to hook up (though they are pretty thorough otherwise). Finally figured it out the next morning and everything was beautiful...

until on one of my test runs I hard shifted and had a sudden loss of oil pressure and heard metallic clinking... had to get towed 5 miles back home... figured I’d broken the new unbreakable Boundary oil pump gears because what else can it be? Tore it all back apart yesterday, got the oil pump out, and the gears were in perfect shape. What had happened is there is a rubber grommet/seal that secures the oil pick up tube into the oil pump... when I reinstalled the oil pump the first time I didn’t take care to make sure that seal was solidly up inside the pump tube... I guess it was on good enough for a few runs, but the hard shift caused a spike in oil pressure and blew that seal down on the tube... so suddenly no oil pressure and the metal clanking was just the gears going around with no oil going through them. Put it all back together today and she’s running beautifully now.

Quite a week of work... 9 solid days of working on it pretty much all day... of course 2 of those were redoing work previously done. I ordered And broke two separate harmonic balancer removal tools before getting a third to work, but not the way it was designed to. I found getting to all the bolts and dropping the oil pan very hard, and ended up with a leak after the first install. So at least the second install gave me the opportunity to do a better job scraping the old RCV away and replacing the oil pan gasket, as well as tightening the bolts in the proper order, so that I’m pretty sure I won’t have a leak again. I also had a hell of a time putting on the Whipple serpentine belt, which I ended up doing three separate times. I could not pull the tensioner pulley with enough force to get the belt on myself. I ended up buying the smallest little jack I could find and figuring out a way to rig it in there between the cross frame and the pulley arm to be able to fully tension the pulley to the stop, and it was still damn hard to work the belt onto the final pulley prying with a screw driver and turning the harmonic balancer at the same time to work it on. Hope I don’t have to ever do that again.

In the end I’m super happy. The Whipple wait time was way too long, but I blame the pandemic for disrupting supply chains. The kit wasn’t complete, but they shipped the missing parts and I got them before I needed them. The install took longer and was harder than I expected in many respects, primarily related to the OPG and not the blower, even after reading all the posts herein and watching videos. But the Whipple kit is really quality and well engineered... all the seemingly thousand pieces are there, hoses are the right length, instructions fairly clear (though some of the pictures could be better). I am so happy I did it all myself and I got a bunch of cool new tools (except for two broken harmonic balancer kits from Amazon that both went in the trash). And I learned a ton! Gots lots of bruises on my hands and arms, my fingers are swollen, but I have a huge smile on my face stepping on the go pedal!

Thanks Beefcake and Whipple!

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Thanks Beefcake... you guys have been great and you immediately jumped on my replacement oil pump gears for the first set that I was sure I broke... which Boundary shipped off to me and are due to arrive Tuesday... but I’ll be sending them right back unused... more to come on that later...

Installed my kit all this past week along with the OPG and sprocket... missed one connector/wire for the throttle body and could get it to start up and keep running obviously. Connector is on the underside of the throttle body so I didn’t notice it, the connector wire was underneath my air box, and the Whipple instructions never call out that particular one to hook up (though they are pretty thorough otherwise). Finally figured it out the next morning and everything was beautiful...

until on one of my test runs I hard shifted and had a sudden loss of oil pressure and heard metallic clinking... had to get towed 5 miles back home... figured I’d broken the new unbreakable Boundary oil pump gears because what else can it be? Tore it all back apart yesterday, got the oil pump out, and the gears were in perfect shape. What had happened is there is a rubber grommet/seal that secures the oil pick up tube into the oil pump... when I reinstalled the oil pump the first time I didn’t take care to make sure that seal was solidly up inside the pump tube... I guess it was on good enough for a few runs, but the hard shift caused a spike in oil pressure and blew that seal down on the tube... so suddenly no oil pressure and the metal clanking was just the gears going around with no oil going through them. Put it all back together today and she’s running beautifully now.

Quite a week of work... 9 solid days of working on it pretty much all day... of course 2 of those were redoing work previously done. I ordered And broke two separate harmonic balancer removal tools before getting a third to work, but not the way it was designed to. I found getting to all the bolts and dropping the oil pan very hard, and ended up with a leak after the first install. So at least the second install gave me the opportunity to do a better job scraping the old RCV away and replacing the oil pan gasket, as well as tightening the bolts in the proper order, so that I’m pretty sure I won’t have a leak again. I also had a hell of a time putting on the Whipple serpentine belt, which I ended up doing three separate times. I could not pull the tensioner pulley with enough force to get the belt on myself. I ended up buying the smallest little jack I could find and figuring out a way to rig it in there between the cross frame and the pulley arm to be able to fully tension the pulley to the stop, and it was still damn hard to work the belt onto the final pulley prying with a screw driver and turning the harmonic balancer at the same time to work it on. Hope I don’t have to ever do that again.

In the end I’m super happy. The Whipple wait time was way too long, but I blame the pandemic for disrupting supply chains. The kit wasn’t complete, but they shipped the missing parts and I got them before I needed them. The install took longer and was harder than I expected in many respects, primarily related to the OPG and not the blower, even after reading all the posts herein and watching videos. But the Whipple kit is really quality and well engineered... all the seemingly thousand pieces are there, hoses are the right length, instructions fairly clear (though some of the pictures could be better). I am so happy I did it all myself and I got a bunch of cool new tools (except for two broken harmonic balancer kits from Amazon that both went in the trash). And I learned a ton! Gots lots of bruises on my hands and arms, my fingers are swollen, but I have a huge smile on my face stepping on the go pedal!

Thanks Beefcake and Whipple!

Appreciate the honest on the OPG install, alot of customers that have problems that end up being user error never actually bring that to light, so we appreciate it!.

The kit is def high quality, we probably install 2 a month for the last few years, so we have gotten pretty good at them at this point. First time is always the toughest!!

As far as wait times, in general, yes, the pandemic has played hell with EVERYBODY, not just whipple and not just the blower industry. I'll be glad when the election is over and everything getes back to "Normal"

Now, Time go get out there and enjoy it!!!