Supercharged C6 throwing ac belts
Thread Starter
1st Gear
Joined: Apr 2024
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
Supercharged C6 throwing ac belts
Has anyone figured out how to stop throwing ac belts on Supercharged C6? Getting tired of having some fun drives only to throw the belt. Ar is at 9psi and 560 rwhp on mainline. Has anyone come up with a fix yet? Pulleys are aligned and an anew tensioner put in. Any ideas because I live in the RGV and way too hot not to have AC. Thank you.
Administrator
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 368,339
Likes: 24,781
From: In a parallel universe. Currently own 2014 Stingray Coupe.
C7 of the Year - Modified Finalist 2021
MO Events Coordinator
St. Jude Co-Organizer
St. Jude Donor '03 thru '26
NCM Sinkhole Donor
CI 5, 8 & 11 Veteran
Moved to C6 Tech for comment.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Oct 2022
Posts: 3,340
Likes: 1,934
From: Ulta Vista, AZ
Be glad your ac doesn’t run off the main drive belt. It could be worse.
aren’t these like 6 rib setups too? IMHO, the only way I would ever do a blower again is if it was 10 rib and if separate belts for main drive. Throwing a belt sucks when it’s all 1 big belt and sitting on the side of the highway to avoid overheating.
aren’t these like 6 rib setups too? IMHO, the only way I would ever do a blower again is if it was 10 rib and if separate belts for main drive. Throwing a belt sucks when it’s all 1 big belt and sitting on the side of the highway to avoid overheating.
Race Director
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 12,502
Likes: 3,631
Lets back it up, and are your running a ATI HB?
On the HB, you have the pulley bolted to the crank hub so two are held solid in rotation,
While on the other types of HB's, you have the rubber layer between the inner and outer pulley, that can allow the torque to pulley to cause a lot of slop as the rubber section deflects.
same with the PB 1117N-SS, and although is does have the outer pulley retained to inner hub, still has the inner rubber layer, and can break it bond to allow the two to slip against each other from the increased blower tension on the belt.
Short of that, then its the back pressure from the A/C compressor to HB that the A/C belt tensioner can not keep up with that belt slap, and and what is causing the belt to be deflect off. Hence are you running the ecs updated A/C tensioner, that has more spring pressue?
https://eastcoastsupercharging.com/p...-ac-tensioner/
If yes, and still slinging belts off with AtI HB in play, then may be time to go to a mech A/C tensioner instead.
On the HB, you have the pulley bolted to the crank hub so two are held solid in rotation,
While on the other types of HB's, you have the rubber layer between the inner and outer pulley, that can allow the torque to pulley to cause a lot of slop as the rubber section deflects.
same with the PB 1117N-SS, and although is does have the outer pulley retained to inner hub, still has the inner rubber layer, and can break it bond to allow the two to slip against each other from the increased blower tension on the belt.
Short of that, then its the back pressure from the A/C compressor to HB that the A/C belt tensioner can not keep up with that belt slap, and and what is causing the belt to be deflect off. Hence are you running the ecs updated A/C tensioner, that has more spring pressue?
https://eastcoastsupercharging.com/p...-ac-tensioner/
If yes, and still slinging belts off with AtI HB in play, then may be time to go to a mech A/C tensioner instead.
