Magnuson 2300 sucks...
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Magnuson 2300 sucks... ...Literally 
We had been having problems with the belt slapping from the tensioner down to the crank pulley on BMillers 408 2300 GTO, so I came up and made a dual tensioner setup with an additional idler on another Katech tensioner. We wanted to give the setup a little beating and were free reving the car. These were the results...we found it a tad intertaining it sucked that much air free reving the car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVD2i_zTIPo
And here is the tensioner setup I came up with.
Zach
We had been having problems with the belt slapping from the tensioner down to the crank pulley on BMillers 408 2300 GTO, so I came up and made a dual tensioner setup with an additional idler on another Katech tensioner. We wanted to give the setup a little beating and were free reving the car. These were the results...we found it a tad intertaining it sucked that much air free reving the car.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVD2i_zTIPo
And here is the tensioner setup I came up with.
Zach
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Yeah, we found a little humor in it at 12:30 this morning...We have 6 cars to get ready for a IRS race this weekend and this was one of them. Long hours for us this week. There was still a tightned T Bolt clamp on the TB side of the coupler. Bob got a little excited when he saw it happen too...haha.
Zach
God I had a little heart attack when that thing folded in and I was just watching it on video...
Last edited by Frost; Nov 11, 2010 at 10:28 AM. Reason: coffee was still setting in at first typing
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Zach
That is awesome in a way but at the same time not so much lol. Did magnuson not encounter this problem when they were designing it?
Same thing happened to my friend with a D1SC. He took the air filter off but left the rubber coupler attached to the head unit. Needless to say this shredded the end of the coupler and bent the fins. Car still ran hard with bent fins 
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Reason for making this setup is we have not found a spring tensioner that will hold 16 pounds of boost on an overdriven setup without slip.
We have proven time and time again with this setup if done properly that it will hold boost.
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