front dress/ water pump pulley

[bob peckham]

Hi trying to get the shortest water pump for a sbf motor , i found one in the ford motorsports book that is and 1+1/2" shorter than the reg. one but they no longer sell the pulleys that go with that pump . The ford hotline gave me a # to a street rod vender who makes billet pulleys but he is a little pricey. Plain steel ones would be great, any ideas thanks Bob

 

[Neal]

Bob,

Try calling Max at Five Star. I sourced the elusive short pump and pulleys from him some time ago. Home Five Star Ford 480-946-3900 SCOTTSDALE AZ

 

[Rob]

I'm with you Bob. Been trying to figure that one out myself. I like to vintage look of the stamped pulley too.

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/gt40-tech-engines-induction-exhaust/26666-name-pulley.html

 

[Jonathan Strain]

I believe the absolute shortest is the Explorer front dress. It uses a special cam cover, water pump, and harmonic balancer. Most of it can be found used on eBay. There were a lot of crate motors delivered in this trim and many of these were cast off parts. This is a serpentine set up, and it is what I am running on my GT40.

 

[Al Jones]

There is only one issue with the [V8]Explorer serpentine set-up and that's the lower bracket idler pulley bearing(NOT the tensioner pulley bearing).This is a small bearing and due to pulley size,runs fast even in the normal vehicle(maybe 5200 engine rpm max).Not long-lived at high r's.Ask me how I know.Other than that,it's fine.This configuration uses an upper right side alternator,an upper left/middle power steering pump and lower left a/c comp. A.J.

 

[Al Jones]

The previous post was for those interested in how the Explorer drive is configured in the oringinal vehicle.If none of the vendors/builders who support the forum have what you need,there's a shop called Performance Engineering,LLC who supplies their own drive set-up with their GT40 specials.I have not looked at it or priced it,just know they have it so it's up to you to check it out.
Jen Hinderberger
Performance Engineering,LLC
Ph# 513-738-5001
Fax# 513-738-5006
[email protected]

 

[Al Jones]

Some older pulleys available from Spectre Perf.you'd have to try a match up for length.
If you use the Ford racing short pump,the kit(p/n M-8501-A50) is avbl through Summit for $185 and includes timing cover, gaskets and pump. The matching pulley kit for serpentine belt (p/n M-8509-M) goes for $210 and includes the crank/water/altrntr pulleys.Or go the Explorer pump/cover/balancer route per Jonathan.

 

[Richard]

I have a set of pulleys from Dynatek. They work in a SPF GT40 with the short Ford pump. The picture is one I took of Lynn Miners engine just before it went in and they work with the SPF brackets provided with the car.