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 Buger Gary
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| posted on March 10th, 2004 at 10:00 PM |
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Belt drives
A freind of mine asked me to ask about a drive belt kit to fit a glimmer type of belt to his type 1 motor.He is after a whining type of noise when
it's running(stuffed if I know why!) Does anyone know where he could get one of these kits?
Gary
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HotRodMatt
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| posted on March 11th, 2004 at 07:32 AM |
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Straight cutcam gears will give the sound he wants along with strength and probably an adjustable cam too!
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Buger Gary
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| posted on March 11th, 2004 at 08:48 AM |
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I have already told him that but he doesn't want to dismantal his motor.
Gary
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Doug Sweetman
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| posted on March 11th, 2004 at 09:31 AM |
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I've seen a gilmer belt drive on a beetle before - it was a show car from the early 90's (W.A), red / orange / yellow baja - engine sounded
wicked, but was worked with dellorto's also.
I would suggest he find a contact for Gilmer themselves and ask them. It didnt look like a custom made kit, so maybe they are off the shelf ?
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| posted on March 11th, 2004 at 09:55 AM |
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Hi
I used a tensioning pulley on my motor from an air conditioning setup, bought it from Bearing Services, it does give a bit of wine, maybe not as loud
as a Gilmer drive.
Click here to see http://www.clubvw.org.au/images/sc_motor.jpg
1302Steve
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Baja Wes
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| posted on March 11th, 2004 at 10:34 AM |
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a gilmer drive by itself whines a little, but not that much. Normal timing belts are gilmer style drives and they don't whine.
Most of the cars with gilmer drives have straight cut cam gears, so whine
and the gears in the supercharger itself also whine, the higher the boost the harder the supercharger internal gears work, the louder the whine.
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