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Quote from westcoastsc on July 3, 2012, 08:28
Good job on finding all of your leaks. Sounds like you will need to weld repair your intercooler. Those are welds, not solder. If you know someone who can tig weld aluminum (GTAW, AC polarity, argon gas, or GTAW, DC straight polarity, Argon-helium mix), they can fix it for you. If its visible, they may be able to repair this with the intercooler installed in the car. This type of defect is very rare, as I'm assuming Procharger leak tests all of their intercoolers. They will fix it for you. See if you can get them to exchange it, so your car won't be down too long.

At least you found the problem. As I always say, "you get what you inspect, not what you expect"

Well today was another day of back and forth with American muscle and Procharger since Procharger says AM is the one that needs to resolve the issue and AM says Procharger needs to resolve the issue well I'm going to give them till Friday to call me before I bitch them both out. Like you say west Procharger SHOULD check for leaks wich aperently they did not this hole was on the part wen it arrived I noticed it but did not pay much attention as I'm ignorant to welds and making metal parts but now that is proven to actually cause a problem then I need it replaced I'm not spending a dime on repairing something that's supposed to be brand new...

YuP but I don't want to loose warranty so I will leave it alone for now

Yes Procharger does warranty the tuner kit. But you have to have your tuner kit installed by an authorized installer and then send the paperwork to Procharger. Then you can also get the extended warranty.

Also, the other reason why the tuner kit has an advantage over the complete kit is if you install larger injectors to begin with, like you can with the tuner kit, as it does not come with any, you only need to purchase one set of injectors. Also if you already have the SCT tuner, you don't need to pay for another one.

Its a matter of liability. Their canned tune is set up without headers, which will change their tune. This is why they wanted you to sign the letter. With the tuner kit, they warranty the head unit. If you get the extended warranty, you also get several bottles of SC oi for changes. I had the X3 tuner and an automatic, but even if I had had a manual trans, I still would have gotten the tuner kit.

If you look on their website, and in the back of the installation guide, the information on the extended warranty is there. Most of the time, the stock injectors with the complete kit are less than adequate for any further performance mods, and a dyno tune is always a good thing to do, so you are paying for an X3 SCT tuner. Also with the tuner kit, you can specify the pulley, and even go to a D1SC head unit. I could not figure out why I didn't go for the D1SC in the first place, as it is only $250.00 extra. Now it will cost me $1500.00 to upgrade.

Where do you guys get the smaller pulley from?

Nice !! well the unthinkable happened again... now while i was datalogging again... the clamp further down close to the intercooler broke loose.... now tomorrow i take off the entire bumper off and Replace all the clamps with T-Bolts