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Old Mar 11, 2017 | 08:17 AM
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There already is a manually adjustable idler with every whipple and maggie kit, its the idler on the slack side of the blower (left side if you are standing at the bumper looking at the engine).
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Old Mar 11, 2017 | 10:27 AM
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yes. but i always try to get the smallest belt possible so that tensioner doesn't whip back as far during belt stretch
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Old Mar 11, 2017 | 11:00 PM
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Yea you generally want the shortest belt you can make work, but in the absence of an adequate belt selection there is some adjustablity in the system by moving the idler around. Since I thrive on making everything difficult, when I put a HD tensioner on my whipple I had to make a custom spacer to get the belt alignment correct, and while I did that I put a bunch of holes so I could adjust the tensioner however I wanted it instead of a fixed position, so this allows me to get the best possible use of the range of motion of the tensioner.

Yours is probably set fine how it is, I just wanted to share.

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Old Mar 11, 2017 | 11:10 PM
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thank you. thats a great idea. I've always felt the tensioner could be improved on
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Old Feb 17, 2018 | 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Atomic
I posted it on the forum a few months ago but no one ever messes with the spreadsheets I make

I attached it to this post so anyone curious can play with it. Ignore the last tab, I never got to a point that I was happy with with all that so its not finished.
thanks again. i saved this a while back & have referenced it a number of times over the years.
made all my hand-calculating a LOT easier/quicker
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