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The current project I am attempting to tackle. It began with a sweet trade deal for a vortech supercharger. The bracket mounting kit for the third gen camaros has been discontinued for over a decade. I have a hobby machine shop in my garage so I'm documenting my attempt to mount it up. I turned down a crankshaft pulley spacer on my lathe and drilled it on my Bridgeport. I made several cardboard templates for the mounting bracket before getting it right. Once done i sent it to a buddy with a cnc plasma cutter to burn it out. Due to space constraints i decided to model it after the procharger kits. I turned stand offs from 3/4 aluminum stock and spaced the bracket out so it straddles the serpentine belt. Finally got it mounted up and looked like it's going to work
The current project I am attempting to tackle. It began with a sweet trade deal for a vortech supercharger. The bracket mounting kit for the third gen camaros has been discontinued for over a decade. I have a hobby machine shop in my garage so I'm documenting my attempt to mount it up. I turned down a crankshaft pulley spacer on my lathe and drilled it on my Bridgeport. I made several cardboard templates for the mounting bracket before getting it right. Once done i sent it to a buddy with a cnc plasma cutter to burn it out. Due to space constraints i decided to model it after the procharger kits. I turned stand offs from 3/4 aluminum stock and spaced the bracket out so it straddles the serpentine belt. Finally got it mounted up and looked like it's going to work
Looking good! I ran mine on the passenger side. Brackets out of aluminum, spacers, etc. Pretty straightforward. Fun project.
That looks like a heafty backet. FWIW, if you go about this again, aluminum sheet/plate can be cut quite well using woodworking tools. I've "rough" cut quite a few supercharger brackets and similar items on a table saw, and done fine details with a router. If you wanted to make a copy of your bracket in aluminum, probably the easiest way would be to cut the aluminum to close to the right size using a table saw, circular saw or jigsaw and then bolt the 2 together and use a pattern cutting router bit in a router to make an exact copy.
That looks like a heafty backet. FWIW, if you go about this again, aluminum sheet/plate can be cut quite well using woodworking tools. I've "rough" cut quite a few supercharger brackets and similar items on a table saw, and done fine details with a router. If you wanted to make a copy of your bracket in aluminum, probably the easiest way would be to cut the aluminum to close to the right size using a table saw, circular saw or jigsaw and then bolt the 2 together and use a pattern cutting router bit in a router to make an exact copy.
That is what I did. Chop saw and table saw for straight cuts. Hole saw, etc.
Yeah there's a few things I'm worried about I am currently running a 355 as well I have a trick flow 465 horsepower top end kit with hyper Pistons the blower was kind of an afterthought currently I have 24 lb injectors I know I'm going to have to upgrade I'm not happy that I'm going to probably have to put a new fuel pump in the tank right now is the stock one also will be running a methane injection kit
I use 50lbs injectors, I think I need to upgrade my fuel lines to a bigger size at some point. I use a O2 gauge, and a data logger to monitor fuel issues. I am also running a Accel DFI system.
