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Hope to see you again on Power Tour. I am finishing up my 66 Stang. We too had some issues on last years tour and had to bail out after Memphis. Thanks again for the advice/help Good Luck
Thanks, I cannot wait to get it on tour again. Chris got my converter turned around in 3 days and its on its way back to me. In the down time I added a drain plug to the trans pan, not living through that mess again
Thanks, I cannot wait to get it on tour again. Chris got my converter turned around in 3 days and its on its way back to me. In the down time I added a drain plug to the trans pan, not living through that mess again
camaro is all back together. UPS dropped of the torque converter at 5:15, backed the car off the lift by 7. (good thing, because a buddy was waiting to work on his 2000 SS that had a broken exhaust stud) Real test drive is tonight.
Very nice to meet you at the power tour Matt, sorry didn't get to hang out more..I'm for sure bringing my car out to one of the next power tours.. You have an awesome car,here are some pics I took of your car..
Stan
Nice meeting you too stan, car behaved after i got the loose exhaust fixed for the rest of tour. I already have a to-do list for next year. These cars are never done..
Beautiful car. Which Maggie kit # did you use? Any clearance mods to the subframe required to clear the oil pan. We just test fitted a 5.3 into a buddy's '69 Camaro yesterday using similar adapter plates and mounts. After some struggling, we finally got it to bolt in, but I could see that the pan was contacting the subframe at 1 point.
Beautiful car. Which Maggie kit # did you use? Any clearance mods to the subframe required to clear the oil pan. We just test fitted a 5.3 into a buddy's '69 Camaro yesterday using similar adapter plates and mounts. After some struggling, we finally got it to bolt in, but I could see that the pan was contacting the subframe at 1 point.
I used the 2004 GTO Kit, but really any gto kit would of ended up working as I swapped to an aftermarket 90mm TB anyway.
Pulled the Trigger on an Innovators West 8 rib setup for the Camaro. I was doing it for the performance, but these look bad ***, turns out its an appearance mod too.. I cant wait to get it all together. No belt slip for this guy.
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8 rib goodness (with a six rib belt) I still need to install the damper and get an 8 rib a/c compressor and mount. I am going to use the Dirty Dingo Mount, as it uses a HD tensioner design like the maggie HD setup. [/QUOTE]
So adding the 8 rib and AC this year has caused the Magnuson HD tensioner setup to no longer fit. I had ordered the Kwik bracket to try and make it work with the maggie tensioner, but I would of just ended up re-engineering the Kwik bracket anyway. Looking online the Dirty dingo bracket appeared to come with the magnuson style HD tensioner already. I ordered it up along with the 8 rib sanden compressor and I am ready to go. One thing that bothered me is Dingo took the time to mill off the logo's and part numbers of the tensioner assembly. I did some digging and if you buy the dirty dingo a/c bracket kit, the tensioner is for an 07-2013 GT500 (8 rib blower belt one)I don't like being at the mercy of an aftermarket company if something happens on a Sunday and I need a part. It also means any of the upgraded tensioners for a GT500 are options if your belt slips with the dingo kit..
Tensioner on lower right of A/C compressor
stock gt500 tensioner on the right, look familiar?
It looks like you may already have it handled , sorry for the delay . Is there anything that we might be able to help out with C6Matt?
Wow, thats customer service! Actually I had no issues the Magnuson HD tensioner or setup, I just needed an equivalent tensioner that worked with the addition of a high mount A/C compressor. The Kwik bracket used a stock camaro tensioner, and the dirty dingo uses the GT500 supercharger tensioner, so I hope it will work with the A/C and TVS2300.
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