Magnus

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Getting the car ready... always in a rush.

I plan to just run the crank, alternator and the idler pulley.. no tensioner setup.. Anyone out there running this setup as well? Remember the belt length off-hand?

I've run belts before with no tensioners and am aware of the struggle it takes to get the belt over the idler.. all part of racing.

BTL FED

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A little hint, here is what I am running. Take the Idler pulley off, get your tensioner pulley bracket and mount it on the back side of the idler pulley bracket. You will have to do a little grinding on the idler pulley bracket to make everything line up. There will only be one bolt holting the tensioner in place, but when the belt is on the tensioner is pushing against the alt bracket, so it holds just fine. This setup works like a charm, I am just running stock crank , alt, and tensioner and I am using a 39" belt

Magnus

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Hmm, thats a good idea however I don't have time by thursday to fab that up. I'm going to hae to go with a very tight belt for the time being but will look into that after the weekend is over.

Thanks for the advice.

Tom the roofer

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Wow thats a good idea

Tom the roofer

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Its going to take you longer to go to the auto parts to buy the new belt than it will take you to do this mod. I have a 37" belt. Depends on the crank pully you have. There is a pic on my web site.

Good luck
Tom

Magnus

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I have an ASP pulley, ... I assume most hard core people have a smaller pulley.

I'll post my findings. Thanks for the help guys.

AL SS590 M6

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I used a Katech Corvette manual tensioner and mounted it the same way as the guys did the spring tensioner. 10% underdrive crank = 37.5" belt.

Magnus

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BTL FED, thank you sir. I did this mod and its very easy to do! Had to grind the support fins down a little bit on the back of the idler bracket to support the tensioner pulley bracket flush and just used one of the tensioner bracket bolts through the back into the idler bracket (opposite way as stock)...

Works very well. Very clean too!

Thanks man, excellent find.

Now I just need to get my water pump to stop leaking on the middle outer bolts.

Magnus

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Another quesiton, did you guys have to buy a 1" cap for the other inlet on the EWP? Mine didn't come with a cap so it was hardware store for that..

Also, since mine is a V6 swap I had my old V6 radiator hoses lying around. I was able to use the long V6 radiator hose and cut off the one end to fit to length and it works very well. It has the larger end on one side to fit the inlet and does a good job lining up with the LS1 radiator (when cut to fit). fwiw.

BTL FED

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I wish I could take the full credit for it, but I got the mod from Tom the Roofer

BTL FED

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I belive I got that Idea from you sir

Tom the roofer

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Thanks man. I'm glad it worked out for everyone

Tom

Magnus

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fyi,

On my car with the ASP Underdrive pulley and the trade mark "Tom the Roofer" tensioner pulley mod, I need a 36" belt.

Very nice idea. Sure beats having to muscle a belt onto the pulleys without a tensioner pulley.

Project_SS

Anyone know the part number for the 36 inch belt

Dragaholic

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I did away with the tensioner and idler pulley. I made my alternator adjustable. All I did was simply put the belt on, pull the alternator out, tighten the nut just a tad, then tightened the screw that holds pressure outwards on the alternator, then tightened the bolt down. Kind of hard explaining, here's some pics. I'm using a 32 1/2" belt. 325K6 is the part number for the Kelly Springfield brand. Hence 32.5, 6 rib.

Project_SS

Thanks for the info. Dragaholic. I had already modified the alternator bracket and had the tensioner bolted to it. Only lacking was the belt. Might try a different method later on to help cleanup the engine compartment.
Anyway, went to the NAPA store and got the 36 inch belt part # 060355 in case anyone else does this mod. using the ASP pulley / stock alternator pulley and tensioner.

Dragaholic

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The belt you listed should measure 35.5", hence 060355.

Project_SS

Yea I know, that was the closest they had to 36 inch. Tried it and it fit perfect. I can now scratch this mod. off the list.

Dragaholic

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You should get rid of the tensioner all together. Less weight, 1 less pulley, and cleans up the engine bay that much more.

Loudmouth LS1

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Hey man, you think I could get a little better explanation of this? Kind of having a hard time figurin out what ur talkin about. Also, what crank pulley do you have? I have a 10% underdrive ATI damper, and i'm just tryin to figure out what size belt I need to go around the crank pulley and alternator, gonna get rid of everything else, like you did.