V belts vs. Serpentine
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V belts vs. Serpentine
torkair March 28th 2011, 1:44 am
I know quite a few of you guys ditch the stock accessory setups, but given limited funds and a rather large engine bay which setup would be preferable? The reason I ask is because both of the builder 460 short blocks I have didn't come with ANY accessory brackets, or pulleys, or anything like that and need to find them either in the junkyard or perhaps someone here happens to have a set of brackets and pulleys taking up space in the back of their garage. The vehicle in question is a 73 Ranchero so I MUST have an alternator AND power steering and I would also like to have A/C if possible since I live in the middle of Arizona.
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Re: V belts vs. Serpentine
dfree383 March 28th 2011, 7:04 am
Either works fine for most applications.
Look for a late model Truck set-up, should be able to fine one in the JY.
Look for a late model Truck set-up, should be able to fine one in the JY.
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njstang87 April 7th 2011, 2:10 am
Do you know what year they started using the serpentine setup on the 460?
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njstang87 April 7th 2011, 1:19 pm
Thank you sir. I know what to look for the next time I am in the junk yard.
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7.5 April 29th 2011, 7:28 pm
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Are the serpentine systems any deeper than the v-belt systems? I won't have a lot of room to work with up front.
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Are the serpentine systems any deeper than the v-belt systems? I won't have a lot of room to work with up front.
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rmcomprandy April 29th 2011, 9:14 pm
torkair wrote:I know quite a few of you guys ditch the stock accessory setups, but given limited funds and a rather large engine bay which setup would be preferable? The reason I ask is because both of the builder 460 short blocks I have didn't come with ANY accessory brackets, or pulleys, or anything like that and need to find them either in the junkyard or perhaps someone here happens to have a set of brackets and pulleys taking up space in the back of their garage. The vehicle in question is a 73 Ranchero so I MUST have an alternator AND power steering and I would also like to have A/C if possible since I live in the middle of Arizona.
Vs. a Poly-Vee; the factory never made a true "serpentine" belt drive for a big block Ford.
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peganit2 May 1st 2011, 10:27 am
If I had a choice I would always go with the polyv.
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466cj May 1st 2011, 1:20 pm
Another option is to adapt the serpintine setup from a Mustang with a 5.0L. A few guys have done it by using an adapter plate to bolt the 5.0L brackets to the heads. Other problem is this setup will turn the waterpump backwards. Never was a reverse rotation pump for BBF, but seems if you open up the cavity around the impeller on a BBF pump it works fine. Main advantage of this setup is saves some room at front of engine and is more compact. Steve
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jasonf May 1st 2011, 9:27 pm
466cj wrote:Another option is to adapt the serpintine setup from a Mustang with a 5.0L. A few guys have done it by using an adapter plate to bolt the 5.0L brackets to the heads. Other problem is this setup will turn the waterpump backwards. Never was a reverse rotation pump for BBF, but seems if you open up the cavity around the impeller on a BBF pump it works fine. Main advantage of this setup is saves some room at front of engine and is more compact. Steve
There used to be a site called bigblockfox.com that had all this info. Not sure if it is still around or not.
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peganit2 May 1st 2011, 9:31 pm
There has to be a way to keep the water pump standard rotation and make it a true serpentine system, with three accessories. It would take quite a few idlers but I think it could be done.
Something like this could work with quite a bit of fabrication. Any arrangement of the accessories would work.
Something like this could work with quite a bit of fabrication. Any arrangement of the accessories would work.
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Re: V belts vs. Serpentine
Hangman May 2nd 2011, 1:36 am
Not sure how in depth you want to get but here's what I ended up doing. Had to order a few small items at this point, but real happy with it. Don't have a completed pic yet.
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