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About LinkBacksThe other day I had this thought.. Today talking to a fellow GP'er I bolted a spare bracket to the motor and went to work. 30 minutes total invested to this point.
The whole premise was.. the belt only catches a little under a 1/2 inch of the bracket. Why not remove some of the excess and slide the bracket over, seemed possible..I went to work.
Using a 4 1/2 cutoff wheel, then a carbide grinding bit to finish it off a little. Here's the pics.
Remove your coils, icm and pack mounting plate. May need to put the bracket in a vise. My motor was out already. Then cut in across the bottom to make the area flush with the old area that the pack mounted to and then cut down from directly above to complete the corner.
Bad angle, but I could see this cleared
Redrill at least two of the three holes and mount.
Like I said..this was a quick and dirty prototype to see if it was possbile. Dammit..it's going to work like a charm.
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How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost way
This is a discussion on How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost way within the How To Write-Ups/Tech Tips forums, part of the W Body Tech category; The other day I had this thought.. Today talking to a fellow GP'er I bolted a spare bracket to the ...
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How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost way Last edited by BillBoost37; 10-19-2012 at 08:16 AM.
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Re: How to clearnace your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost me So you grind out the inside of it and move everything over so the belt doesn't hit the coils?
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa Bingo. Seems too easy huh?
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa you just now are doing this? i thought you wold of worked teh voodoo earlier on lol
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa Why think it up.. all the GP geniuses supposedly already did. Cept..most of the time..I find it doesn't work out.. lol
Just happened to look at the bracket a little closer the other day. Annnnnd poof.
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa I think I have a spare bracket in a box of goodies that could use some modification. Nicely done Bill
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa Negative. Originally Posted by matt5112
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa thanks bill, this really was the quick and dirty way to make clearance for the belt, works great!
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa Nice to hear that. I haven't had a need to put one into use yet.
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa Send it my way I will put it to use lol should be picking a intercooler up this coming weekend
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Re: How to clearance your stock cast bracket for an intercooler and belt BillBoost wa How can you comment on this and knowing it is on it's way ...then say.. "I didn't look at the pics?"
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