This is the way I looked at it. Chances are slim that they may fail, but there have been enough people that have broken them that it is a concern. Can I afford to replace the motor should it fail? Yes. Do I want to replace the engine because I did not replace a $300 set of gears? No. A day...
3.625 pulley on 93. It was an RPM belt which has less stretch so they need to be tensioned less. I spun in 2nd and it tickled the rev limiter which is when it broke.
I took a stethoscope to it and the noise was coming from what sounded like the inside of the blower. Whipple suspected...
So I thought I'd try a gates rpm belt on my 2.9 Whipple since I was getting some dust on the pulley. Put it on, had it tensioned around 50% and broke it pretty quick. Limped the car home, stuck a new belt on it and now it sounds like there's an angry gnome inside the blower beating it with a...
As someone who debated supercharger vs turbo very recently. I went whipple for a few reasons. One, I wanted instant power as my car is a street car, can't deny the instant torque of a twin screw. Two, I already had longtubes and did not want to mess around with removing them/changing them out...