Methanol pre-blower in a TVS setup?

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Apr 12, 2013 | 10:55 AM

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Methanol pre-blower in a TVS setup?

I tried doing a search, and people only seemed to talk about other blowers except the TVS. I'm curious if the meth will strip the coating on it. Eaton made a gen V SC and I know a decent amount of owners spraying meth pre blower with seemingly no ill effect on the coatings(one of them used meth for over 20k). Do the TVS units share the same coating as the Gen V? I forget if it's the Teflon coating or not.

And please, I don't want this thread to turn into a debate About if meth is or is not good power provider, but strictly to find out if it damages/flakes/etc. the coating. Thanks

Apr 12, 2013 | 11:19 AM

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wont strip the coating, but it will eat up the grease in the needle bearings and cause failure..... don't ask me how I know this

Apr 12, 2013 | 12:30 PM

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Yeah that sounds even worse, sorry to hear about that.

Apr 12, 2013 | 12:50 PM

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wont strip the coating, but it will eat up the grease in the needle bearings and cause failure..... don't ask me how I know this

Never heard that before and never had an issue. What kind of blower was that.

Apr 12, 2013 | 01:11 PM

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i had water/meth on my tvs1900 on my g8 and never had a problem

i know someone else running strait methanol into a TVS blown ls1 GTO for years and years making 10lbs and 530rwhp

Apr 12, 2013 | 09:49 PM

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If that's the case, I'll plan to spray meth pre blower then. Thanks guys.

Apr 13, 2013 | 06:09 AM

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killed a few m62's (needle bearing basically fell out after a few months, granted we were over spinning the hell out of them) and a couple of my buddies chewed up the tvs1320 on the cobalts pre blower spraying. MAybe they changed the type of grease they use now, but the blowers needle bearings would be dry after a few weeks to months. Maybe there was some other issues going on, but it seemed to be mostly the people spraying meth through the blower.