Who said it would be easy?



So HOW will it be mounted in the Impala SS? Well let's begin
with some cardboard - God's gift to the Hot Rodder.


When engine in place it's time to locate WHERE the supercharger should sit. With a help of a pair of
folding rulers taped to the crank pulley I found out the maximum sector space needed for the belt.












"The Laser Man" made a first test of the mounting bracket in 3 mm steel. Then it was made in Mechal.


1891 gram (1,891 kg) is very light for that much Dural and Mechal 7075 aluminium...just 4.16 lb


In order to make clearance for the new 4" IC-tubing (instead of the 3" I started with) I need to work
the driver's side frame even more.


BAAAH!
Note that artistic clearance grinding in the frame!


From under and from above. Yes, I will box it good with a 3 mm supreme steal. it will look like it's
made by Chevrolet. No, much better actually.



Cardboard from a customizer from hell!


Steel from a blacksmith and welder from hell!


Zink from a ground painter from hell!


Black from a painter from hell! (seen from above)






Part of report from this test:

Glad and Sad. Our mission this evening was mainly to find out two things: 1. Have the changes of
the headers this winter stopped the burning of the spark plug wires? 2. Have the rebuilt of the 4L80E
(last winter) resulted in that 3rd gear is back in again. Gladly we found that the answers on
both questions was YES!
Sadly I found oil drops on the asphalt underneath the ProCharger! This has never happened before! And
we also thought that the "bad sound" of the blower when turning off the engine now was REALLY bad!
And when the belt was off and I could rotate the blower by hand I felt it wasn't at all smooth inside...




No doubt when opening the magnetic oil plug! I'm lucky that the supercharger didn't blew up!


Broken supercharger packed and on its way to ProCharger for repair. Via Birgitta at Autoshop.
Bye bye, come home soon!


June 28 - 2010

On its way back today!


My ProCharger F1R is factory repaired and on its way back to us!
It was indeed an intenal wear of the 6 gear drive wheels so a whole
overhaul was needed. In that process it also has been updated
with today's internal gear drive which ratio actually make this
model spin 4000 RPM more! That together with a new external
pulley and some more new accessories from ProCharger
points towards even more power delivery!

...thanks to Queen Birgitta


It was Birgitta Bergqvist at Autoshop Racing Engines - my high
performance supplier - who again pulled some of her strings within
the American Automotive Industry! This time she managed to speed
up this deal with ProCharger so it went through in no time! She has
been well attached within the industry since when she and Bagarn
opened Autoshop in Orlando in the mid 80's and made a lot of friends
like Top Fuel driver Joe Amato (left) and late NASCAR-driver Neil
Bonnet (right). I don't remember who the guy in the middle was?
Anyway, thanks Birgitta for your awesome string-pulling!
(Photo above is on the wall at Autoshop)



June 30 - 2010

My weapon is back


Back from repair and overhaul at ProCharger with some new updated
things. It's now like a completely new supercharger with all the new
modern items, like the hub which goes on the output shaft to mount
the pulley wheel on. Back in 2003 when I bought my F1R the pulley
went on directly on the shaft.


A change from my old 38 tooth pulley to the new 40 tooth pulley is
absolutely necessary to take down the spin / boost pressure of the
supercharger a bit, since the new internal drive have a ratio of 5.40
(instead of 5.00 before) And we want to avoid to spin the ProCharger
above 70,000 RPM, right? =)



July 1 - 2010

ProCharger mounted


Went to Kenneth Feldthusen at his work Nilfisk ALTO to have a cup of coffee and his help to heat the
hub so it could be slipped onto the shaft. This hub is something new from ProCharger since I bought
my F1R-model in 2003. Before the pulley sat directly on the shaft.


My own bracket was of course cleaned and polished before it was mounted to the supercharger with
a new set of flat hex 12.9 screws (which were secured with "Normal" Loctite 242)


Gulpa gulpa...burrp! Also bought more ProCharger oil which comes in 4 oz bottles.
One bottle for each change. Well, we're ready to go again!



July 5 - 2010


Woff! Woff!


Jeezus engine is started with the ProCharger F1R V.2. It sounded
terrific! Click on above picture to see a short clip of it!


New internal gear drive makes the ProCharger sound smoother, with
less rattle than before.Click on above picture to see a short clip of it!



Much much more...