Paxton Novi 1500SL
05-11-2015, 02:44 PM
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Paxton Novi 1500SL
Anyone have any issues with the Paxton Novi S/C head unit from ECS? First off ECS has been great! No problems there. They are getting me in touch with Paxton to return the unit today. I haven't found anything on these units where anyone was having problems. Mine blew a bunch of oil out the vent and now sounds like bearing failure. It's less than a year old and only has about 3000mi on it. I'm thinking it's just a fluke but would like to know if anyone else has had a similar problem. I changed the oil several times and it looked clean. When it pushed the oil out it is now dark black. Changed again and turned black right away. I hope this thing will be covered under warranty and it doesn't take to long. Anyone have any experience sending something back to Paxton?
05-11-2015, 03:04 PM
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Glad to help, I would say the failure rate is about 3% as a guess. Paxton is pretty good about getting the rebuilds out fast, but everyone gets busy now and then.
05-11-2015, 03:15 PM
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St. Jude Donor '15
(and I know that's a tough one because a year doesn't really define how far or hard it's driven)
05-11-2015, 03:38 PM
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It seems like they are either good or bad usually. We have plenty now that have been on cars for over ten years/over 100k, and some that failed on the dyno, but the percentage is very low. It just stinks when you are in the percentage..
We have never sent one in for a "check up", most of them we never see or hear of again.
05-11-2015, 03:40 PM
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It seems like they are either good or bad usually. We have plenty now that have been on cars for over ten years/over 100k, and some that failed on the dyno, but the percentage is very low. It just stinks when you are in the percentage..
We have never sent one in for a "check up", most of them we never see or hear of again.
We have never sent one in for a "check up", most of them we never see or hear of again.
05-11-2015, 04:15 PM
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Listen to this novi 1500SL at this thread by John Stuttle [ I This noise normal for a new A&A supercharger] and let us know if that is normal my ECS novi 1500SL sounds like that it is 8 months old and 3200 miles.Thanks
Listen to this novi 1500SL at this thread by John Stuttle [ I This noise normal for a new A&A supercharger] and let us know if that is normal my ECS novi 1500SL sounds like that it is 8 months old and 3200 miles.Thanks
05-11-2015, 04:19 PM
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I searched all over the web and couldn't find anything negative on these compressors. Thanks for the comments. I figured it was just a fluke. Thats a low failure rate and I'm glad it went now. I can have it off the car in about 15min with the ECS bracket so that's a positive note!
05-11-2015, 06:19 PM
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05-11-2015, 07:28 PM
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Have you installed the new one yet ?
05-11-2015, 07:36 PM
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No, I'm waiting to get a return authorization to send it back to Paxton from ECS. They are going to have it ship direct to save time. It just happened today.
05-10-2020, 10:23 AM
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I think iv got same problem, only 3,000 miles and noticed same noise? Its a bitch to take it off and iv had it on the car lil over 3 yrs so I guessing it wont be covered even though I can show 33,000 miles on my vett when I bought it and now 4 yrs later 36,700
05-10-2020, 08:54 PM
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Noise in my Paxton novi 1500
Put mine on my 08 vett a lil.over 3 yes ago. Only 3300 miles later it's making a grinding sound. Dropped all the oil added 4oz fresh oil, noise same. Cant see any obvious reason. Hopefully they will work with me due to so little miles on it.