455 serpentine belt drive

[tstadel]

Anybody ever heard of a way to convert a 455 to serpentine belt drive? It would be pretty trick if I could come up with a way to do billet brackets for all the accesories also. Any ideas?

[stage-x]

Check out the frontrunner system made for the BBC ny Vintage Air. Billett Aluminum and very slick. Copy that for our cars.

[Robsbuick]

I am working an a serpentine system right now for the 455. It won't be a single belt system due to the water pump direction.
I do have available V groove billet pulleys.

Rob.

[leo455]

Copy a GN .I would go as far as saying it would bolt on.Well the crank drive might be different.

[Robsbuick]

Thanks for the tip.

[TimR]

When you get it sorted out, will be very cool....must be a way to use one belt..if the pump turns the other direction then run the belt around to the other side or does that cause other issues?? ....serpentine would be very cool....I have thought of it but because I would have to pay someone to machine them things would get real expensive, real fast...

later
Tim

[Robsbuick]

I am about 75% done with the set-up. I spent the weekend machining the pulleys, now I just need to machine a couple of brackets. When it is done i will post pics.

Rob

[Skyhawk]

Rob you are a man on a mission. Keep up the good work. See you at the Northeast GS/GN spring meeting on March 28th.

[TimR]

While we are on the topic, I heard a rumour that the 3.8 front accessory case was the same as the old 350, anyone verify this?? then could run all the puleys and belt....

later
Tim

[rpkzm]

Here's what I did for my 455, bought a ford crank pulley # 2008, drilled the buick bolt pattern into it, ford 5.0 water pump pulley (no mods), and a regular GM alt. pulley. Had a local machinist make a steel ring spacer for the middle opening of the ford crank pulley since it's a little larger than a buicks.
That's it, you might have to get a w/p pulley spacer kit ( $8 ) to help in linning up the crank and w/p pulleys.
Rick

[G-Body DAVE]

rpkzm what did you use for a tensioner pulley that sound like a idea I might put into use

[rpkzm]

The tensioner is used for my supercharger. Click on the link at the bottom and you'll see how it's used.

[G-Body DAVE]

super charger very NICE

[skymangs]

I wanna know everything!!! What supercharger did you use? Was that kit for a Chevy big block? what compression pistons did you use, and what kinda #'s will a thing like that pull?

[rpkzm]

Slow down Skyman, everything you need to know is right here at these links. The first one is where to get the supercharger and all the pricing info for your buick motor, the others are links that contan information from mine and Richs rides. Richs feed back on his is what got me interested. Enjoy, Rick


www.xsperformance.net

http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20860&perpage=25&pagenumber=1

http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26143

[Ttype455]

Yall should check out this link.

http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=61350

[BirdDog]

Any update on your setup Rob?? Did you ever get it done??

[Weekender]

Anybody ever heard of a way to convert a 455 to serpentine belt drive? It would be pretty trick if I could come up with a way to do billet brackets for all the accesories also. Any ideas?

Although these are not billet pieces as shown in this thread, the system has the advantage of using stock pieces from the salvage yard to achieve a late model look and has a high performance result.

The assembled system view was in the development and the parts were not painted or powder coated.

Weekender