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by **Dawgz** » Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:06 pm

philosophicaljt wrote:feel any difference?

well, its confusing but the only diffrence with the two setups is that the one i have now, that's installed gives the belt constant 120lb tension, where the other old setup looses tension after sometime and u have to retension the belt (pivot the alternator and measure the tension using a Kent-moore Belt tensioner or anything similar).

by **salaki** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:39 pm

QuickSEV6 wrote:I'm one of the lucky ones to get the first generation of superchargers (without the tensioner). I ordered the tensioner from Toyotapart4u.com and I haven't found time to install it yet.

Anyone care to share the part # of the tensioner?

If it's not that much, I'd like to get one too!

by **CamryOnBronze** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:16 pm

they dont sell the tensioner anymore...

by **Dawgz** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:16 pm

salaki wrote:
QuickSEV6 wrote:I'm one of the lucky ones to get the first generation of superchargers (without the tensioner). I ordered the tensioner from Toyotapart4u.com and I haven't found time to install it yet.

Anyone care to share the part # of the tensioner?

If it's not that much, I'd like to get one too!

well, the Updated style idler plate is not sold any more...but a replacement tensioner is found on amazon...i forgot the part #, search, it was done by SiennaSC98

by **JavaJoe_2** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:17 pm

Search: Please read here.
http://www.solaraguy.org/viewtopic.php? ... sc&start=0

by **CamryOnBronze** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:44 pm

true, you can get the tensioner- i even have one Im trying to sell that is brand new, but its worthless with the old style idler plate...

by **JavaJoe_2** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:00 pm

If you could get the two types of idler plates together, you could figure out the difference. I think it's only the hole where the tensioner would mount to the plate?? :roll:

IDK? I have only seen the style with the tensioner.

by **Dawgz** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:29 pm

JavaJoe_2 wrote:If you could get the two types of idler plates together, you could figure out the difference. I think it's only the hole where the tensioner would mount to the plate?? IDK? I have only seen the style with the tensioner.

yea, but the plate itself, where the hole is, is an extension basically.

What could be done is have someone with a new style plate to get them to go to a machine shop and make duplicates....

by **CamryOnBronze** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:46 pm

I have both style plates in my possession right now... one is for the sienna and one for the solara. The self tensioning setup has a wing that extends down for the tensioner to mount to.

To be honest, is it really worth all that trouble just to have the auto tensioner when you only really need to check the belt tension every 10k miles, if you ever do? Coming from experience it just seems like a lot of work for nothing...

by **shocar4** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 8:12 am

what ever came of this! is there a real benefit to the dynamic tensioner or not? other than having to check belt tension every now and then with the older setup? any performance difference?

by **Dawgz** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:04 am

well, the belt has a constant tension of 120lbs....as to the 90lbs, or less...

by **shocar4** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:24 am

so dawgz...is there a performance difference between the 2? or is it just in the lbs of tension?

by **Dawgz** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:39 pm

well, if u forget to tension the belt often, u might loose like .1 .2 .3 or watever psi of boost i assume since its not tensioned....just a theory tho...

by **shocar4** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 12:57 pm

oh okay so the real benefit is that you really don't have to monitor the belt tension as much? yeah that makes since!!! thanks dawgz...

by **Dawgz** » Thu Dec 27, 2007 3:35 pm

shocar4 wrote:oh okay so the real benefit is that you really don't have to monitor the belt tension as much? yeah that makes since!!! thanks dawgz...

yep, and the fact that if u have a smaller pulley...u wont get much belt slippage...

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