Charger
I had originally purchased the blower for my funny car back in the 70's. The person I bought it from ran tractor pullers. Before we were going to use it we decided to have it freshened up. We had a hell of a time finding a machine shop experienced in supercharger clearancing. The closest place we could find was in Iowa. A guy there (Mark Kinser) that used to run alcohol funny cars did the work for us. It wasn't cheap. We damn near could have bought a new blower for what it cost us.
These are just some of the pictures we took of it before we had the work done.
Originally we were told it would only take a few weeks to get it back. It ended up taking almost a year.
The front blower snout had to be machined to accept the idler pulley bracket we got from BDS. The Weiand snout had a taper to it and we needed it cut straight.
I had picked up one of those Weiand reinforced rear bearing covers for the blower years ago. The two pockets on the inside are where the rotor bearings ride. It had to be machined for proper bearing location to give the right rotor to case clearance.
After sitting 30 some years on the shelf, a lot of the parts showed their age. Everything looks shiny and new after getting it back.
I had originally purchased the blower for my funny car back in the 70's. The person I bought it from ran tractor pullers. Before we were going to use it we decided to have it freshened up. We had a hell of a time finding a machine shop experienced in supercharger clearancing. The closest place we could find was in Iowa. A guy there (Mark Kinser) that used to run alcohol funny cars did the work for us. It wasn't cheap. We damn near could have bought a new blower for what it cost us.
These are just some of the pictures we took of it before we had the work done.
Originally we were told it would only take a few weeks to get it back. It ended up taking almost a year.
The front blower snout had to be machined to accept the idler pulley bracket we got from BDS. The Weiand snout had a taper to it and we needed it cut straight.
I had picked up one of those Weiand reinforced rear bearing covers for the blower years ago. The two pockets on the inside are where the rotor bearings ride. It had to be machined for proper bearing location to give the right rotor to case clearance.
After sitting 30 some years on the shelf, a lot of the parts showed their age. Everything looks shiny and new after getting it back.