85 Monte Carlo SS build

**firebird_1995** · 03-14-2013, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by shownomercy

Sorry to be late to the party here, but the way you have that front plate, all of the belt load and weight of the blower itself is supported by the 4 TB bolts?

Done any analysis on the bolts? I would worry they will not like that load much.

There is another bracket on the back of the head and helps support the weight. Also that plate coming off the front of the intake has an ear that will attach to a mounting point off the accessory bracket. You can see it a little better in some of the earlier pictures.

Originally Posted by ginoz28

Call me a dumbass but how does that work? The inlet to the SC is back how does it come out of the bottom and go to the intake?

Inlet of the blower is on the side, outlet is on the bottom. It will go through an intercooler and back into the front of the intake. The throttle body will be mounted on the inlet side of the blower.

***popo8*** · 03-14-2013, 09:12 AM

Im actually going to create an album on our fb page with a link to this thread. ive stolen many of ur pics already...and ill even quote some of ur descriptions ..IF...

thats all ok with u....

Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
LTXtech.com

**cholmes729** · 03-14-2013, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by firebird_1995

There is another bracket on the back of the head and helps support the weight. Also that plate coming off the front of the intake has an ear that will attach to a mounting point off the accessory bracket. You can see it a little better in some of the earlier pictures.

Inlet of the blower is on the side, outlet is on the bottom. It will go through an intercooler and back into the front of the intake. The throttle body will be mounted on the inlet side of the blower.

Can we get some pics of that?

**firebird_1995** · 03-14-2013, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by cholmes729

Can we get some pics of that?

Post 67,68, and 86 should give you a pretty good idea of what's going on with the brackets.

**firebird_1995** · 03-14-2013, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by popo8

Im actually going to create an album on our fb page with a link to this thread. ive stolen many of ur pics already...and ill even quote some of ur descriptions ..IF...

thats all ok with u....

Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
LTXtech.com

No problem. After I get everything done I will go back through the thread and clean everything up and explain better what I've done. I've got another set of brackets ready to fab up so I can do a little better on the next one with the step by step

**shownomercy** · 03-14-2013, 10:06 AM

Ok theres an additional bracket I just missed it I guess, my bad.

Other than that, just one more thing, the plates are both in parallel correct? IE no perpendicular piece to prevent any waviness in the plates from the blower moving axially front to back. Just thinking out loud, inner engineer of me, sorry lol

**firebird_1995** · 03-14-2013, 11:13 AM

There are some gussets on the bracket that bolts to the head. The plate that holds the sc will have a piece of box tube underneath it acting as a plenum for the outlet air, it may provide some additional support but not much. I know nothing about bolt loads or structural design so I'm open ears to any suggestions you may have!

**firebird_1995** · 03-14-2013, 09:28 PM

Here are some installed close ups of the brackets.
Rear bracket

Front bracket (I'll have a piece of round tube welded to it that will extend to the accessory bracket)

Sc mounting plate (the triangle is the outlet.)

***popo8*** · 03-14-2013, 11:13 PM

Omg... I am getting my arse hamded to me on fb....

"i dont understand how ur gonna get air from the blower to the intake..."

Lol... Like a million times!

Larry (Popo8) Co-owner
LTXtech.com

**NoMoneyZ** · 03-15-2013, 12:04 AM

Just read through this whole thing. Very impressed. I would love to have this for my skylark build. I have tons of space in there. If you build a new one put me in line for this bracket. Your doing an amazing job.