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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Ellingson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Miatapower <[email protected]>
Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:55 pm
Subject: Question about a supercharger pulley issue....



Fellow powerlisters,

I could use some advice on a recurring problem.

The car:

Ubercharger kit, turned up rather high (66mm pulley @ the s/c; bumped
rev limit to 7900, various other bits 'n pieces) on my XP autocross
car.

The problem:

The s/c driving pulley and crank pulley are not remaining attached to
each other & the crank pulley boss. The four little bolts holding the
pulleys on the car are working their way out or shearing. The bolts
have worked themselves loose before and I retightened them, but then 2
events ago 1 bolt worked loose & the other 3 sheared off.

So I pulled everything off, attached the two pulleys to a new pulley
boss using longer bolts (the stock bolts don't engage very far into
the boss with the added thickness of the s/c pulley), reassembled the
car, and after ~20 minutes of running (6 minutes of hard use doing
autocross runs & the rest just rolling around grid) the pulley was
again loose. I havn't disaassembled it yet, but I think 1 bolt sheared
& the others loosened up. The pulleys were attached to the boss on a
bench; the bolt lengths were good, I used permatex/loctite, and I
think I torqued them appropriately (which is pretty light; they are
small bolts).

Any suggestions for what I might do differently to keep the car
together? My current ideas are to replace the crank pulley & machine a
new s/c driving pulley in case one or the other has bent/gone out of
round. But other suggestions are very welcome.

Thanks all,
-- Glenn
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