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Revamped the seats. Never was in love with the Race Stripe boat seats, although comfy enough. So ordered a less flashy version of boat seats and then made a set of "Bomber" style buckets out of them.











Now to figure out some sort of interior panels to cover up that fiberglass
 
After driving the project for a while the max boost I've gotten out of the supercharger has been 6psi. Chasing a potential belt slip problem I added a tensioner to the slack side of the belt.

Then I realized I never checked the pulley ratio using the BMW's crank pulley and Jaguar supercharger pulley. 5 1/8" crank pulley, 3" SC pulley = 1.7:1 pulley ratio. The factory application has a pulley ratio of 1.98:1 and makes 12-14psi

So I had a custom SC pulley made with a diameter of 2.5" for a pulley ratio of 2.05:1









We'll see how it does from here, I can go as small as 2.2" pulley on this hub. However, smaller the pulley more chance of belt slip over less belt contact surface area.
 

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