resurrected

My 177's were spinning about as fast as they would go and still be happy, multi vee belt and they screamed like banshees'

Snowflake

Absolutely good meeting you too dave, thank you for getting right on it and working your magic. You do excellent work!

glassdave

for those that are curious, that loose laminate sticking out with the red threads is peel ply. Its used to help balance that resin/fabric ratio, pull out excess and put a nice final working surface after the epoxy is cured.( giving away the glassdave secrets one at a time lol)

Snowflake

lol I dont think anyone is gonna second guess your tactics Dave.

Wildman_grafix

I may have missed it but why did you glass in the ballast tank pickup? Was the tank removed?

Snowflake

It was in the way for the left side intercooler pickup. I will eventually come up with a way to feed the ballast tank again.

glassdave

at this point i would hope not lol i do always like to try and educate the masses when i can though. The peel ply thing is actually a pretty nice trick to have in the bag, Sparky at Viscous Powerboats gave me that one years ago and its one of my most passed along tips. . . . now get that thing in the water!

bencini231

Not to derail this thread, but I'm just answering a question. The Whipple uses a rib pulley like the serpentine belt style pulley with a twin screw compressor. The new design of the twin screw is quieter and creates less heat as well as more power at a lower boost then the previous 3.3 supercharger.

Brad Christy

Bencini,

That's what I thought. I was just referencing your comment about "less noise" from the Whipples. I was of the opinion that blower whine was primarily from the cogbelts (and maybe some form the sync gears, especially if they were straight cut gears). We've seen a few builds where cogbelts were used with Whipples, and my thought was that the whine would still be there. I was curious if the blowers themselves were quieter, or if it was just the lack of cogbelts you were referring to. Just trying to pack knowledge into this (hopefully decreasingly) vapid space between my ears.

Thanks. Brad.

offshorexcursion

Ours is fed with the water after it leaves the tail pipe.