This fellow may have had a slipping fan belt....
but No Longer....:o:o
Very heavy chain and not even oiled......
Bad Move....
Lee
oooh ouch!
why???
It probably works OK....
but I don't like it......
Timing chains used to be used in many engines...
Now replaced by belts....
but the chains were running in oil.....
Sizes of [pulleys] sprockets are different too....
Lee
looks like an unusualy mod for sure, I'd hate to think of the bearing load from that chain once it wears a little. Maybe he's driving more than the
alt. and fan from that shaft?
How do you adjust it?
It looks like the alternator base is home made....
where does He put the oil in???
it looks like a type 1 engine....
Lee
Small bottom pully.... :duh
Could be a tuff mod for a tuff Ratt
Nice tinware!
a reliable mod? "Tell him he's dreaming!"
I wouldn't like to be near it when it eventually (& inevitably) decides it's had enough and takes a flying lesson!!!!
Matt.
WAIIITTT.
I read somewhere in some mechanical engineer's thesis about playing with vw and fans and cooling and belt slippage, that the fan only has a certain
Max threshold area of 'spin-age' handling before it starts busting apart. Tis y u want to preserve fan belt slippage to some degree.
I would imagine this mod will have a different fan, modified fan otherwise it will die pretty quickly from what i read. Surely would creat some
interesting pressure. a fan spinning around 1000 to 3000 revs. or greater :o
Clean out the heater channels Haha.
the new ba xr8's come with timing chains...although they are greased as mentioned above.
Anthony
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just don't go putting your finger in there
Oh dear, poor Wes would have a heart attached reading a quote like this!
Note the gearing, 1:1, it already spins much slow than stock, belt slip is to do with power being drawn by the fan being higher than what he belt can
transmit, I don't think it's "designed that way" as there are way to many variables in service to determine exactly when it will slip.
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