David P

T.T. head, manifolds and ECU, sorted cheap as chips.

If you fit a T.T. head to your N/A engine it's doable.

That'll be handy because the new supercharger hub turned up today and is the next job on my list. Windows 98.

It fits like it was made for the job and looks the Mutts Nutleys. The Super Chargespeed bonnet is born. Da-daaaa.........

If it was a 'little-bit' of slip then I would have tried it. After I have maximised the wrap it should be fine, but if it has a 'little-bit' of slip left in it, I'll give it a squib of that stuff.

Bulging the bonnet has been at the bottom of the list for so long, I've had plenty of time to work out how I wanted it to look. Getting it right will make it, getting it wrong would break it. I've never attempted a job like this before, but thought it through and all went remarkably well, thank you. Some day, I plan to design and make my own skirts too, because I think all available look pants. The loose ends of the Project are coming together now, thank you. Don't just look at it, I'll Ziiip you up to Warp Factor 4.

It matches my dead man's lungs. Cheers

P.m. me your address and I'll drop it into Royal Snail. I can get away with leaning over for a day, but two day's was asking for trouble, it'll soon get over it. Thank you, I'm keen to fit it and admire it.

I decided I could do without criticism, so my screaming back lost the argument and have spent the day titivating the bulge to perfection whilst sat on a chair. Will fit and photograph it tomorrow.

Thank you for the compliments, I'm keen to see what it looks like on the car. My lungs survived but my bad back is screaming. It could do with a little more tinkering around the bulge but my back say's STOP, so that will get done when the car is resprayed. If either the bonnet/mould or the vent is of use to anyone, ask and it's yours, collection only for the bonnet please.

I was going to bin it, but if you want it, it's your's. Pre-paint snap of the under-side, with hole for charge-cooler swirl-pot cap and lid for cold-air box Pre paint pic The second rattle-can was a dud, but you get the idea

The mould worked a treat Pruned to fit The carnage begins The blue paint is as thick as the fibreglass Located and ready to glass in The wood burner is fired up again and after my Chinese take-away breakfast/dinner I will do some more.

Ben, They're perfect, the only problem is; Noz'll never speak to me again. Thank you, I'll give you a call. The bonnet I spent 3 days stripping the outside, I have now opened up the inside to become a mould. Stripped to the etching primer, flatted down with 1200 grade, polished with Brasso then given 10 layers of Carnauba wax polish Two layers of gel-coat One layer of 450gm mat and another of 600gm then left to cure at regulo .5 until tomorrow

Thank you for the stud offers, they're greatly appreciated. The ones used previously were from Bob's stash but I have used up all four there were in that size, I realise I could buy a die and make them yet thought it would be cheaper and simpler to simply buy a couple. I use new each time, because one is so awkward to get at, it's essential that the nuts can be wound up to contact with one finger, then it only takes two nips with 'The only Spanner in the World' that will reach. The new charger is still with the Engineer and the pulley-hub is still winging it's way from the U.S.A, yet most of the fibreglass materials are here and expect the last of it to arrive today. I'll post some pics of bonnet bulging progress when there are some results to be seen.

I ordered 2 x M10 1.25 - 38 mm long studs for the new charger rear mounts. However, delivered were; 2 x M12 1.5 studs. Complained. Subsequently, delivered were; 2 x M10 1.5 studs. Complained again. Subsequently, delivered were; 2 x M10 1.25 studs, however, one hasn't been threaded all the way so wouldn't work with the 6mm thick bracket and the threads are poor and damaged on both of them. It looks like I've stumbled into another nest of numpties and for the benefit of my sanity may well end up re-using the old studs.

It would be convenient if I could simply blame it on the Yanks, yet it's apparent that the U.K. also has more than it's fair share of folks who are incapable of doing what they're paid for and whatever the origin, it must still run the Carriers Gauntlet of Hell.

Thank you for the encouragement, it tears up tarmac now, when it's not raining. I am meen as kustard to get the final odds and sods sorted, yet I'm being mucked about by all and sundry for the components I need. The constituent pieces for the latest idler bracket are prepared, but can't finish the job until I have a supercharger with a straight hub to work from, so that's grounded for a week or two because it has taken 7 emails over 5 weeks to get one into the post from the U.S. I want to sort out the Suprastick programming yet it has taken 4 weeks for a laptop to arrive and now on the third new wrong charger sent to allow it to function. The fibreglass required to sort the bonnet took 5 weeks to arrive to find the wrong materials had mostly been sent so have had to re-order. I need a reworked valve body to speed up the gear-changes but the chap in the U.S. who modify's them, appears to be incapable of answering to emails for the past three weeks. And so it goes on, there's only a couple of day's work to do to be finished, yet first must endure Global incompetences.

When it's ready. The charger is at the Engineers and the hub is on it's way from the U.S. That gives me time to tinker with a t.b. and prepare component parts for the bracket in between tinkering with the bonnet and other things.

I've just measured up, it's possible to get around 5mm more, but if sufficient gap is left between them to change a belt without dismantling the pair, then they're loosing. Twins would require a stronger bracket than can be mounted there, it would interfere with the centre-idler operation and make belt changes more complicated. Using a 4.2" pulley and a single idler gains around 38% wrap contact and the 1.5% more with twins is not worth the work and whatever I do will have to be done in an outdoor pit-stop session. When the charger comes off I will fit a modified throttle-body to make space to fabricate the bracket and then rebuild with the new supercharger. I'll get the component parts and pieces as ready as they can be and then wait for a day of workshop access when it's an outside welding kind of day.

There's almost no difference in the maximum attainable wrap and a single will be easier to fabricate and to maintain.

I have tracked down a bearing that will do the job nicely and at £15 this Peugeot 306 cam-belt idler-bearing is a readily-available service item. Now I just need a bracket to hold it here somewhere.

Here's a pic of a T.T. water-pump (Meziere Electric) and an N/A gasket, 4 of the holes don't line up.