Sweet man, it sounds amazing in that video.

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Watch your words; they become actions
Watch your actions; they become habits
Watch your habits; they become character
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny

You all wanted a video with a few engine revs in it, so here ya go. A under the hood camera shot up close and personal just for you all. I made this a while back before I removed the supercharger, just finally got it out of my camera and uploaded.

Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91mt9g0VxM

Next video, I'll be out side of the garage, and maybe do a little driving, and maybe a big smoking burn out since my tires are about done anyway...why not ya know.

enjoy.

~F~

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*drool*

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2008 GPONA Members Choice Car of the Year
40th Anniversary Daytona Pace Car #1077

12.538 @ 109.89 1.877 60' 10.18.08

did my pants ever get tight

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05 Bonne GXP, click for cardomain


somethings just cant be replaced ... good times...

Damn Farns, if you're looking for people that are definitely interested, well I'm one of them!!

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Click HERE for updates and pic of the car!

Any progress??

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Click HERE for updates and pic of the car!

When will they be for sale?

*dear lord, please have this wonderful man mis ship a prototype to my door for i am to poor to buy this, and let me open it and cry tears of ever loving joy. Amen


WOW...this is sick.....



(patiently waiting for my prayers to be answered)

hearing that sound on video makes me feel that Ive died and gone to heaven. My money is in the bank waiting patiently...jk, very impatiently, waiting on the day this goes up for sale. When ideas like this come about I have to wonder how stupid I am not to have thought of this. Incredible work.

Sickness...simply the sickest GP mod I've ever seen. Very good job...and that sound...OMFG...no ricer will run the family car that noise comes from, I don't care how big his turbo is.

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Vtec...All the lag and none the turbo...it's like waiting for bad sex...

2005 GT2...with a really nasty Gen V blown headered L26 in it...

Wow, very impressive Jason. Amazing what you've done to that car, very clean.

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99 GT (Stock - DD) & 04 Comp G (A Few Mods)
New 1/4 mi. PB @ Pontiac Nationals 2009: 12.79

that is awesome!!

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2001 Black GTX 2 door mods: E85 , 2.8mps , 1.9s , headers , SSIC and other supporting mods and ZZP tranny with 3.29s , ZZP 2500 stall , ect , SOLD

Guess you guys wanted updates...

I finished up the drawings and measurements during the week for the new belt tensioner set up.

I am adding in a pulley, cause some comments were along the lines of the belt being "loose" when it is not. Its called belt deflection, but what the hell, whats another pulley anyway. This pulley will be kinda special too.

I took my entire spare engine to the machine shop, so I could make on the fly measurements and adjustments to my design. Beats driving back and forth when something does not work out.

Aside this...if there is time, I will re adapt my nitrous spacer plate for the use with a GenV, cause when it was made, I made it for my GenIII, and remaching my LIM cause it will have to be specially modified because it will be direct port, what it will look like INSIDE, I will not share pictures, but will show a little "bench test" video later before it goes on to show ya how much N20 this will flow evenly.

lets see...what else...Oh ya, a little something extra special, truly unique to my car, for my GenV, and this set up. Probably wont see this till the Branson Meet.

~F~

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Well I started production/work on my new belt tensioner design/set up.

I decided to, of course, once again change my first idea, and use one pulley as it is now, and NOT use an additional pulley to take care of the "belt flop" or belt deflection. Instead, I am changing the belt routing some, and kinda inter designed one of my previous designs of the belt wrap kit that I made about 7 years ago for more belt wrap around the supercharger pulley into this design for the cog belt tensioner.

The mock up is done, and looks awesome, and looks like it will work MUCH better, and plus, looks pretty bad ass compared to the ugly stock spring tensioner that was on there before. I'm pretty excited to get it finished and installed, and if it works...I'll polish it up for some good looks too. All that's left is to fabricate the pulley mount, and machine me a groove into the plate for the adjustment.

Only two or three other hush-hush mods to do after this one is done, and I should be sitting good, and my car will be back running the bottle at times this summer too for one hint.


~F~

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Pics or it didn't happen!

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Oh, don't worry, it happened. I held the finished parts in my hands as they came off the lathe yesterday.

All I can say is, they are very unique. As I said before, many will think one part I made extra is stupid, but I don't care, I made it for myself, built around my modified GenV I did years ago.

~F~

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Anyone even want to see the updated parts and pictures?

Can I get a "yes please" ?

LOL

~F~

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Uh...yeah.

Like, duh, man.

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One Big Ass Mistake America

yes please

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Aragorn

Ok, give me a few.

~F~

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so you tease to have us wait more .....

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June 4th 2009,

Been a while...have some new developments. ;D

The old, modified stock spring tensioner.

Modified, because the cheap aluminum casting where the pulley bolts to, was actually cone shaped, so it would come out of the mold easier we believe. Because of this, there was some excessive play in the pulley, on top of the standard internal play of the Timkin bearing in the pulley its self.

So, what we did was machine the stud down, and installed a bronze bushing to stiffen the pulley up, problem solved.

Till I dug up my little black book of ideas, and brought to life a new belt tensioner design I created/drew up like 7 years ago.

The purpose of this new design is to eliminate the need to carry two or three different supercharger belts depending on what sizes of pulleys many run on the street and at the track. You simply adjust according to the size of the belt.

Also, changes the belt routing, creating even more belt wrap around the supercharger pulley.


I adapted it, for this particular set up at hand, and this is my prototype creation. More or less I needed to totally LOOSE the spring tensioner all together for this cogged set up, as it was allowing too much belt deflection, and under a heavy load, the teeth of the belt would skip just enough to miss the teeth of the first pulley. They would mesh eventually, but only after slightly chewing up the belt first. Do this for a few weeks, and months...and ya...problem becomes obvious when you look at things.

So...my creation.. my solution for the total loss of the spring tensioner and the installment of a fixed belt tensioner.





Back side:


back side with pulley assembly removed:


The assembly removed close up:


exploded view:


this is the billet aluminum 6061 spacer:


this is the keyed nut so to say, also billet, but machined out of heat treated 4340 steel.

It is 40 to 44 hardened steel, (not sure if any of you know of the Rockwell scale "c-scale" or not) so it should be more that strong enough for this application.

The main base, is billet aluminum. Nothing too special about it. Just machined in the right spots so it will fit past the cast iron coil bracket/motor mount bracket. To space it out correctly, I have some billet aluminum round spacers.


Mock up:






As with anything...I always find some flaws in my designs but I am learning. The main problem I discovered when I got home to install this on my engine in my car, is the spare engine I have at the machine shop does not have the alternator, AC compressor, or the power steering pump, so there is was no serpentine belt. So, as you can see, if this was ran, the belt would be rubbing on the plate.

Oops. :-[

So, planning to just run a end mill across the edge of that, and either make me a groove, or just cut the whole end of it off so the belt will have enough room to move. Only bad thing is...if there is enough belt deflection, it will rub regardless...so I will see if this does happen or not once its fired up and cross that bridge when it comes.

Instead of using the factory Torx studs as seen in the picture, three of them cause I added one where there WAS a short stud for the ICM ground in my mock up, I am going to use some socket head bolts, and counter sink into the plate so its nice and flush mounted. I still can do this, though there are holes drilled through the plate already.

Then...might show you the "other" cool thing I made specifically designed for my supercharger. Its kinda a cool thing I think, but others may think its stupid or not necessary.

~F~

June 8, 2009

Well, remachined the plate a little more, now its about where I want it. Did away with using the knuckle busting Torx Studs, and went with some recessed allen head bolts.

I will try out the belt groove, and see how well that works out, I have a feeling I will want to, and need to make it a little wider, and deeper to prevent any belt rubbing.



The tensioner assembly as a whole:




Installed:







Alright...Just because I am in a giving mood, I guess I will show you the other special thing I created.

It does serves a purpose, cause when the last belt let go, the underside of the hood was taking a beating as it rotated.



Got to protect that fiberglass of the F1 hood ya know.

So...

Building it around my little goof up years ago, when I machined my snout I was told how much to remove and spin it down to, but not how much to machine in as far as the depth went, so went a little too far compared to others.

Now that goof, turned into something useful. ;D







All billet, spun on a lathe from a solid piece of aluminum. It was quite simple to make really. Maybe in the future, it will be polished all bling like. (along with the plate, and other pulleys)

Installed:













Next project at hand...the fabrication of my custom, direct port, N20 plate for under the supercharger. Been designing this for some time, but ideas conflict with new ideas, and then I run into limitations of what the machines are capable of doing, so redesign after redesign...I have the design down to two very plausible designs.

Going to have a conference call with Holly in a few days, to get some more insight, and get suggestions or get answers to some lingering questions I have. Pretty much I have a general idea that it will work, just want some reassurance before we put the mill to the metal.

~F~

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Dood...that is just so wicked awesome.

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Thanks!

Good news is, the belt is VERY tight, and I do not have to count on the spring to keep tension. Set it once, and forget about it with this new one.

Kinda figured when I started this that I would have to end up making a tensioner like this, but I thought I would give the stock, modified tension a fair chance. It failed. I think I will just polish it, and put it on the girl friends car for some more bling for her. LOL



~F~

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Looking good man! I wish you could hav quad parts made.

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