12:05 Garage- ’70 Duster build

racerjoe said
I try not to do anything that will have it down for a long time.

The next project will be serpentine pulleys, which won't be a direct bolt on. (does anything ever bolt on?) Besides getting the alignment correct, I need to have a trigger wheel on the crank for the EFI. The pulleys are aluminum and the trigger wheel needs to be a ferrous metal. I designed a flange to weld to the pulley and had a new trigger wheel cut to bolt to that flange. Sendcutsend.com did the laser cutting for me. I'll arrange the spacing exactly the same as my current setup, that way I don't have to mess with the sensor bracket. I don't have a TIG welder, nor have I ever welded aluminum. I do have a friend that can help me out with that. I may actually try to weld it myself with his machine once I have some practice on aluminum. I'm probably more excited about these pulleys than I should be. I'm just tired of constantly checking belt tension. Those v-belts just don't seem to like too many 7,000 RPM pulls.

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Very cool!

I've been planning to swap the Magnum serpentine belt system onto my 360. Even added a tone ring to the OEM pulley similar to what you are doing (minus the bolt together part). But I have been putting it off until I put the Magnum EFI on the motor. I did get the Hughes RPM intake bolted on finally, but just with a carb for the summer.

I don't want to have my car down during the summer, so I tried to limit my winter project to just what I can get before the weather warms up. So only a cam swap and intake for this season, EFI will have to wait until next winter. And even then, I didn't even drive the car for the first time until last week.

But that might all go by the way side. Already decided that I am going to do a T56 swap on the car and I think I am going to G3 swap it as well. Time will tell though.