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Supercharger Jack Shaft continued

Still working on the front jackshaft bracket. The bracket that attaches to the head has been machined and a paper template is printed out for test fitting. The bracket will still have nose piece to support the outer bearing.

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Test fitting the bearing part of the upper jackshaft bracket.It still needs to have the bolts holes machined for attaching it to the lower bracket. The round pocket is for a bearing.

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A small bracket will be added between the supercharger and front jackshaft bracket to add some forward and back rigidity.

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By |July 2nd, 2012|Supercharger|Comments Off
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Supercharger Jack Shaft

The pulleys finally arrived and the supercharger housing for the jackshaft has be started. It is made from a 1” thick piece of aluminum, with a pocket for the sealed bearing. The housing clamps onto the nose that I machined into the neck of the supercharger. I ended up making a new supercharger shaft to fit the 20mm opening of the 8mm 32 tooth cog pulleys.Sup-Jack-pulley

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Test fitting the shaft and belts. A belt tensioner will fit in to the back of the jackshaft adapter.

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I am working on the serpentine belt design. A separate belt will be used for the water pump-alternator and the supercharger this will allow the engine to still run if I have a supercharger failure.

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Starting to design the brackets for the serpentine end of the jackshaft. I print out the design on paper to make sure it fits before machining piece out of aluminum. The bracket will be designed to allow the installation […]

By |July 1st, 2012|Supercharger|Comments Off
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Exhaust Nearly Complete

Work on the 2 1/2” stainless exhaust is nearly complete, still need to install some exhaust hangers. The mufflers are very small and I will look into installing some baffles if it’s too loud Smile

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the X pipe fits nicely between the frame rails.

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Fitting around the R200 Diff

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Once everything is mocked up I will pull everything apart and finish welding and cleaning the frame.

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By |June 2nd, 2012|Exhaust|0 Comments
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Exhaust

Did a little work on the exhaust pipes today.

 

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The area around the transmission needed to adjusted.

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Next I will need to get the exhaust pipes snaked around the R200 differential.

 

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By |May 30th, 2012|Exhaust|0 Comments
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Clutch and Flywheel

The pilot needle bearing that was supplied with the clutch was not going to work so I located a bushing that fits perfectly at NAPA auto parts. I don’t like needle bearings if they are not installed perfectly they will mess up the input shaft on the transmission.

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Bushing installed

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The flywheel was balanced to match the flex plate off the L67

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The new torque to yield bolts  next to the old flex plat bolts that I picked up at the GM dealer. Expensive little buggers!

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Once you torque the bolts you need to rotate them another 50 degrees. I don’t have a proper wrench so I used my level to measure the correct angle.

By |May 30th, 2012|Power Train, Transmission|0 Comments
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Supercharger Nose Modifications

 

 

Started working on shorting the nose of the Gen V supercharger .

 

I turned down a new shaft  that is about 4” shorter then the originalnew-supercharger-shaft

Pressed on the bearing. The knurling on the shaft holds the drive flange

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I cut down the housing on the mill and machined the new bearing pocket.

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Finished machining the parts.

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Test fitting the shortened supercharger.

By |May 19th, 2012|Supercharger|0 Comments
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T5 shifter relocation housing

Today I machined out the housing for the relocation shifter. It was machined out of a piece of 2 1/2” x 3 1/2” 6061.

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It will be welded to the housing once everything is fitted properly. The shaft will be cut once I have it set up and dowel pins will be used along with the set screws.

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showing the new leveled housing.

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Showing the completed coupling with the shaft cut out to allow the shifter ball to fit into the socket.

 

Finished the housing and welded it into place and installed the shifter.

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By |May 3rd, 2012|Transmission|0 Comments
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T5 Transmission shifter relocation.

I am in the process of modifying the tail housing of my T5 Transmission to allow the shifter to be located in the TR6 factory location.

I am making a coupling and housing that will allow any standard factory or aftermarket  shifter to be used.

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I first have to cut out part of the shifter selector shaft tunnel.

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Test fitting the shaft.

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I am designing the coupling so that it will drive the original shifter selector so  I will not need to modify with the selector gate.

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The Camaro T5 transmission is tilted 18 degrees and I want the new shifter to sit level.

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I will post more later…

By |May 1st, 2012|Transmission|0 Comments
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Flipping the new Gen V Supercharger

Started work on turning the supercharger 180 degrees today. The idea for turning the supercharger around is so that the throttle body is facing the front of the car and allowing for a more practical placement of the air cleaner. It will also allow the heater hose and thermostat to be on the front of the engine.

The lower intake manifold is also flipped so I will need to make a couple modifications to make it fit. I first needed to modify the lower intake manifold so that it would clear the water pump. The area was milled open was filled with 1/4” aluminum plate.

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You can see the welded plate just above the water pump

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This is the rear of the motor showing the gears for the Gen V supercharger. The motor originally came with a gen 3 supercharger but in order to turn the supercharger around I would need to change the direction of the rotors. Unlike the Gen 3 the Gen V supercharger bolt pattern is symmetrical and I was able to flip the rotors over and thus moving the drive pins over from the right to the left hand side. I will be making a jack shaft to connect to the front of the engine.

By |October 27th, 2011|Power Train, Supercharger|0 Comments
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Header Tubes

I started on the tubes for the headers using six pieces of mandrel bent 1 1/2” mild steel tubing. The drivers side has to clear the starter so that it can be removed without having to disturb the headers. I used a piece of sheet metal at the bottom of the frame rails as a base to aid in the layout.

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The tubes also have to keep away from the frame and the firewall that is marked with the blue paint.

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Drivers side mocked up I will weld the tubes to the header flange once I have the collector tube made up. I will make the motor mounts once the headers are completed.

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Pieces of pipe insulation is used to hold the tubing on place for mock up.

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By |October 30th, 2010|Exhaust|0 Comments
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