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NYCSRT had his blower rebuilt by Jon Bond Performance. Rebuild included upgraded bearings and teflon rotors. The cost is around $ 1,800.00 and the rebuild should increase performance. I say should because the blower has not been tested on a dyno or at track so we do not know for sure. Bottom line: Jon has the parts to service the blower that you cannot obtain from FCA :):):):):):):):)
 
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He can replace all the bearings in the case, not just the snout. Apparently some of the bearings are not made of metal and can have wear issues. In NYSRT case, the timing or phasing between the rotors jumped and were slightly out of phase. I am posting this because NYCSRT has a timeout here so I am posting it for him.

Regarding the performance increase, if you take the hat off the blower and inspect the rotors, they have a gun metal color and you notice chips in the coating (every blower I have inspected has chips in the coating but I have only checked out 4 or 5 so it is not like I am expect on this). It is opined that that the applied coating on the rotors will reduce the amount of heat built up of the air passing through the blower. NYCSRT has not dyno or ran his cat at the track to see if this is true. The exciting thing to us is that the blower is now not a throw away item since FCA does not supply rebuild parts for it.

Once we have some real data on how the rebuilt blower is performing I will post it. We are both hard on our blowers as they are turning just about as fast as you can do (maybe too fast, but that is another story).
 
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Bearings in a blower will amount to nearly nothing. A coating in place of the stock coating will amount to nearly nothing. It's a sales pitch.

It IS good to see that they are now able to be rebuilt; hopefully this will be the end of supercharger failures for folks that have the OE unit fail.
 
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We do not know whether there will be a measuragle increase in performance. The point of this post was to let the forum know that the blower can be rebuilt a lot less costly than purchasing a new blower from FCA. I should of not said anything about efficiency or performance of the rebuilt blower as it really is not the point the thread.
 
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I spoke with Jon and I think it is important to get 'both sides' of the story before making a judgement. I believe one of the people who complained about Jon's work had never actually sent his supercharger to him for work to be completed. In speaking with Jon all I can say is this does not represent his quality of work and commitment to customers that I believe his reputation is based upon.
Allan Jack
Edmonton
 
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#26 ·
Speak to Jon and get his side of the story. If you are old enough to own a Hellcat you have had enough life experiences to know that judging a situation by only hearing one side of the story is going to give you the wrong information and opinion. Jon is working hard to replace any parts in the supercharger of the Hellcat he can make stronger and more reliable. This process of rebuilding them will begin in May and he has several customers with their superchargers there. Let's hear from someone at our site that has dealt with Jon and does not have an axe to grind with him...

Allan Jack
Edmonton
 
#28 ·
Since, Im in the business , my life experience says this guy sent a much better blower than he received back. End of story. Jon owes this guy something to make it right. One side of the story may be true, but its hard to discredit pictures of before and after. This guy plain and simple didnt take the care of someone elses parts, and because he didnt get a sale of work to be performed, treated his items like shit. As someone who makes sure each and every one of his cars are built how it was contracted, I myself think Jon needs to stand up and own up to it. Make it right, and move on. I have made things right SEVERAL times with things that were my fault, and some were not. At end of day , my reputation overseas was far more important than a few bucks or even a few hundred. I deal almost exclusively sight unseen and overseas builds. This stuff cant happen or I have no business. I hate when car dudes treat people like this.
 
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Man dude, you really are trying to sell this guy and defend him. I think there is no question just looking at his evidence on a few sites that he was dealing with him, and he seemed to anger quite a few people over it. I dont care if its over mustang parts, camaro parts or hellcats, a vendor who treats peoples parts like this without owning up to it, would never have my support. Read through quite a bit of it, and he certainly didnt deny it. He ends up having KB fix the blower that he didnt want to fix. This guy Jon tried to upsell him on services after the fact. Bottom line is they treated him like shit when he wasnt going to be a customer. Says VOLUMES to me about this guy when shit goes wrong. Sure he may fix 100 hellcat superchargers and 4 may have issues.....but heres the point. Its what he does for those 4 guys who have issues with his rebuild. When you read about how a guy treats someone when there is an issue , it makes me stay way away . Life is to short to pinch money for a big headache and MF'ing a guy over the phone. Defend him all you want. I realize that post was 2014 but where did he ever stand up and say, you know what , Im sorry and let me take care of some of the costs since we damaged your case. BTW his polished blower looked great after KB did him right. All you members can do as you please, but I dont deal with fellow car people who screw other car people. I've dealt with 100s of customers over the years who continue to come back or have a friend sent my way because right or wrong, I do what I say. If something happens, we take care of it, and they never have to worry about any misdealings. PERIOD. When you deal in distance, your reputation will make or break you. So far as Im concerned Jon can kick rocks. Id pay double for him not to touch it. Or he is welcome to come in here himself and plead his case or be stand up about it. He doesnt need Allan Jack representing him
 
#30 ·
Whatever way this goes. Social media/forums are king now when it comes to someone doing a good or bad job. You will hear about it. I hope this guy is doing good work, he would have a sizable customer base with the modded/no-warranty group. It might not be a bad idea for him to chime in personally if he wants the business. Most people in this situation will have a sitting/non-operable car, so they want their product in the right hands.
 
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