jaw dropping mate, just amazing work. cant wait to see more

Well I guess it must be time for an update sorry about being rather slack in getting this thing finished, but it's amazing how long it takes to make up all the little bits and pieces..

I've decided to go with an 8 rib belt to run around the main pulleys so the first one to do was for the alternator.



The next one I had to do was the main pulley and as you can see here:



One big lump of Al that just fitted over the bed on the lathe.

With a few more thousand revolutions I managed to have it start to look like something that might work..





As you can see an 8 rib for the S/C Alt and P/S and a 6 rib for the A/C.
Now I've never really liked the design of the P/S pump in the fords so unfortunately I went to the other side and picked up a vn pump.
It makes it easy to mount down where the idle pulley lives on the stock setup.



I also needed to make up a couple of idle pulleys to route the belt and also one for the tensioner, I took the stock ford one and machined off the stud that holds the stock one and tapped a hole to mount my own larger pulley for the fatter 8 rib.



As I think I mentioned in an earlier post that the CVR water pump just wasn't going to work out so I got a mech one with an electric drive.
Well I didn't like the looks of the s**t plastic pump pulley so I made a new one of those as well.



And after I bolt it all together it all it's going to end up looking a little like this..



And thats basically where I'm up to at the moment.
With any luck the posting shouldn't be quite as far apart from now on.

That is one really nice bit of work. Cant wait to see more!

Awesome Pete - if you need any belts, let us know...may also be able to help with custom lengths / widths too

wow, you really know your way around thoes machines, wish i had thoes skills. lots of math involved. keep up the good work, looks great.

Nice mate.

excellent work!! i cant wait to see it sitting in the engine bay!!!

I swear, I'm barring up looking at the front of that motor..

wish I had a lathe and miller here... would be sooo handy.

nice work mate

i will be all worth it in the end

any updates mate? bloody great thread
Cheers

mmm yummy

Just read the thread.....absolutely fantastic work!

Can't wait to see the next update

wit runner lenght that short that beasts gona be a sreamer

wow, this is fantastic,

iv been weighing the turbo/SC options for ages and i think ill supercharge mine in the future,

this has been a big help,
your custom manifold looks identical to the one i used to dream about making haha!