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Yes I have that weird chemical/oil like smell as well was hoping it was the belt breaking in perhaps?! Who knows not gonna touch it until Spring because we’re gettign dumped on in Michigan right now 😒...this is pure torture lol
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The oil smell is most likely coming from the crankcase ventilation. When under boost, you're gonna get blow by past the rings and it has nowhere to go except "out" while the intake manifold is under pressure. And it's gonna stink for awhile even after the manifold is back under vacuum while cruising. Relatively normal, something you'll need to get used to. Or just quit boosting. 
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Isnt that kind of a bandaid? Just doesnt pull outside fresh air. I wonder if that has any drawbacks.
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The reason why the smell is there is because the line coming from your drysump goes to the intake pipe which acts like a breather when not on the throttle. The oil/gas vapors escape through the cone filter, now if you have the factory setup on your Supercharger setup then it escapes into the fender well but away from the engine compartment, so really you should only get the smell when you have the Race inlet (cone filter) as Procharger calls it
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Just noticed you're close to where I grew up. We terrorized that KOA back in the day...
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Essential oils made me laugh
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well I didn't really have as strong of a smell when outside of the car with the hood up. Couldnt really pinpoint exactly where the smell was coming from. I do have the cone filter but maybe I need to make sure that I didn't just put a bandaid on a real problem. I have not installed a catch can (yet) so that might help
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We have the same car "Z51 M7 2016"
I never checked for the cooler. I think vertical will be just fine. The intercooler on these is pretty beefy either way, so drag-racing, autox, daily driving and road racing are all going to be fine either way I hear. (Other than there is a level of road racing that will get HOT, I doubt the horizontal is what is going to save you at that point though...)
I never checked for the cooler. I think vertical will be just fine. The intercooler on these is pretty beefy either way, so drag-racing, autox, daily driving and road racing are all going to be fine either way I hear. (Other than there is a level of road racing that will get HOT, I doubt the horizontal is what is going to save you at that point though...)
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The oil smell is most likely coming from the crankcase ventilation. When under boost, you're gonna get blow by past the rings and it has nowhere to go except "out" while the intake manifold is under pressure. And it's gonna stink for awhile even after the manifold is back under vacuum while cruising. Relatively normal, something you'll need to get used to. Or just quit boosting.
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The reason why the smell is there is because the line coming from your drysump goes to the intake pipe which acts like a breather when not on the throttle. The oil/gas vapors escape through the cone filter, now if you have the factory setup on your Supercharger setup then it escapes into the fender well but away from the engine compartment, so really you should only get the smell when you have the Race inlet (cone filter) as Procharger calls it
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what did you end up doing as far as the intake goes ?
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Apparently the IAT thing doesn’t matter because I picked up about 13 HP which isn’t significant but the race inlet saved me 195 bucks over the standard inlet Procharger provides, no brainer for me..