Hey guys!
Thank you for all of your support, it helps so much!
So the issue with the supercharger v3 SCi, 928 fully upgraded internals blower head unit was that it was spouting oil from just the vent plug and the vent plug only.
We took the following steps to diagnose this issue:
(1) Swap brass plugs to see if it spouts from the right side as it did from the left side -- Check. The vent plug indeed spouted oil no matter which side it was on.
(2) Drained the entire supercharger oil volume from the blower (Thankfully did not even have to lift the car up at all -- just turn the wheel to the left all the way to access the drain plug below lol. The purpose of this was to find out how much oil was left (to see how much was sprayed out over time). We got about 1 oz or 1.5 oz at max.
(3) Before filling up the supercharger with a full bottle of oil again as we thought the case was an overfill which is common as to why supercharger blower head units will spout oil --> We decided to take into the account the total volume of internal pieces in the blower from the 928 upgrade took up [vs] the total volume of the internal pieces the stock pieces took up before the 928 upgrade on the V3 SCi blower.
We came to conclusion that because the 928 impeller was slightly taking up more volume than the original impeller, the blower would naturally need less oil for it to run properly without spouting oil.
(4) To test (3), we poured in about 3oz - 3.5 oz. max of supercharger oil into the blower, then closed it up, started the engine in static placement, revved it to 3 RPMs and held it there for about 10 seconds, while my buddy looked at the engine bay specifically the supercharger and the vent plug / seals area watching for any oil to spill, leak, spout, spray out.
(5) Test Results: None. No oil came out whatsoever. We checked the dipstick and it was odd because we would take it out, clean it, put it in, and it would read some oil to the top of the diamond pattern. Wipe it, put it in, take it out, and it's completely dry. Wipe the dry one, put it in, take it out and oil would appear, lol so weird and this was all while the car was completely off!
(6) We decided to take it for a test drive around town and when we parked after about 7 min of driving, we found no oil to be spouted out or leaked out from the blower. We checked below and still dry, no leaks below either! (Mind you the undercover of my car is remaining off for some days to detect any immediate leaks of any kind).
(7) We drove the car again around town back to the shop and found no leaks again, no bottom leaks, nothing -- still the engine bay was dry! Yay!
(8) I decided it was safe for me to now drive it back home and to work as a real time testing to see how it goes.
(9) I drive it home, then to work which is 1800 feet up in the mountains so there are some crazy slopes going up and down -- and check the engine bay and see no oil spill, spout, or anything of the sort. Great!
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TLDR; We fixed the SC oil leak problem
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