I finally have something to post! Special thanks goes out to my machinist for bumping me up on his list and making my new pulley!

Well, after close inspection I determined that I simply had to be experiencing belt slip due to the lack of belt wrap on my original setup. This was confirmed when I pulled everything off and found where the belt dust had been hiding

That said, I came to the point where it was down to fabbing up a bracket to add another idler pulley to get it to work correctly. However, that would very quickly drive up the level of complexity on top of where I already was with a custom pulley and special bearings.

So, I decided to go with my original plan of making a dual pulley for the alternator. This strategy is much less complicated overall and easier to reproduce. I did have to re-think my tensioner pulley location and the Rotrex bracket needed some additional trimming. Other then that it was fairly painless once I recieved the new pulley as shown below (compared to the stocker).



I went with a little larger diameter. The intent of this is to both increase the contact patch of the belt for the sake of grip and to underdrive the alternator. The latter is intended to help make up for turning the SC as well as to offset some of the overall load on the belt.

The bad news is that I am in Vegas this week. However, I did get her up and running before I left for a few quick drives around the block. I'll start tuning her up when I get back and see what she is going to do. I was disappointed that I couldn't put the pedal down and see what kind of boost she was going to make, but my SPD and the AEM were not in synch and I wasn't going to push it.

I ended up finding a short in one of the cables I had made due to a broken solder connection. I fixed it and confirmed that my logs were in synch and reporting the same data. However, I ran out of time before having to get ready to go out of town and couldn't take her out for another spin.

When I get back, it is time for two real tests. First, how much boost is she going to want to make now and will I have to tone it down with a restrictor? Second, will the AEM FI-6 make it into high rpms without a misfire?

I'm hoping I don't have to go to the FIC-8 as that will cause another delay, but the good news is that she is otherwise in the best shape that she can possibly be and getting even cleaner every day!