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If you are going with the A2A upgrade from a stock Stillen kit and go the 9psi route you will need my kit to prevent belt slippage. You will be

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Old 06-25-2018, 08:50 AM   #10 (permalink)
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If you are going with the A2A upgrade from a stock Stillen kit and go the 9psi route you will need my kit to prevent belt slippage. You will be driving the supercharger with about 60 hp and the belt will slip. Some have been slipping at 8 psi.

The stock Nissan belt tensioner will take up the slack of going to a smaller jackshaft pulley (Stillen 9psi) but the contact area of the drive belt goes down and that will cause slip, Add in the extra load on the belt to drive the SC faster and more slip.

To try and keep things simple, the serpentine belt is the main drive belt and is a long 7 rib belt that connects the crankshaft pulley to all of the other main drive pulleys (including the supercharger jackshaft).

The other belt is the supercharger drive belt (small 8 rib belt) that connects the jackshaft to the supercharger. You can get to 9psi by replacing the SC pulley with a 2.95 inch pulley from Vortech (part number 2A038-295). If you go that route the drive belt tensioner will not have enough adjustment range to take up the belt slack due to the SC having a smaller diameter pulley. To fix that you will need to replace the idler pulley on the SC drive with a 76mm (Gates 36225).

I'm running the 2.95 Vortech pulley along with my extra idler pulley setup and am getting close to 9.5 psi. YMMV
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