427 original style pulleys?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by hi-tech cobra

Thanks guys!

patrickt, what kind of water pump pulley is that?

Nothing you see there is fancy. The balancer and pulleys are all Jegs stuff, as I recall, and not on the expensive end either. The water pump is an Edelbrock. You don't need to spend a lot on this type of stuff -- it's the stuff that goes on the inside that tends to cost a bit more.

[patrickt]

That is a "one of a kind" custom-made timing pointer though. Carefully hand crafted and tack-welded with the finest tacks. Very, very labor intensive and expensive.

[hi-tech cobra]

Will this work?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FORD-...em220212983489

Is it period correct?

[hi-tech cobra]

How about this one for the water pump? He says the offset spacing is 2 1/2" and another one on eBay said it had 2 1/4" offset. Aren't they all 2 1/4"?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MUSTA...em230233026950

[Burgs]

When I sourced some original era pulleys, and saw they were just stamped pieces that needed a good beating to straighten out, I just could not bring myself to install them on the highly balanced aluminum 482 that Keith built for me. I bought a new set from March, and thru the vintage parts in the pile of extra parts.

[patrickt]

On those two items it shows the crank pulley's diameter as 6 3/8" and the water pump pulley as 7 1/4" -- that's an underdrive condition. You should try and get your two pulleys to have the same diameter.

[patrickt]

I started looking for the thread that had pictures of the Kirkham pulleys, but then I got distracted by 392Cobra's avatar and forgot what I was looking for. Also keep in mind that an underdriven alternator pulley might have trouble charging your system as well. I did run across this post though that at least referenced the Kirkham pulleys:

Originally Posted by SantaFe66

I had the March std set and the water pump pulley was 6.5" and the crank was something like 5.25". The car overheated because of the underdriven pulley set. I bought a billet 5.25" waterpump pulley from Kirkham, it is really nice looking and no more overheating. Good to know that March made it right for someone but you won't find that combination on their website. Kirkham has some really nice billet aluminum bits for reasonable money.

The alternator can be positioned high with the standard brackets from a Ford Pickup or can be positioned low with the set that accomodated the air pump from a later Ford. They aren't very nice looking, just utilitarian Ford parts.

I found many billet bracket sets when I was looking. Do a google search and see what you find. Most of the billet sets were very expensive but looked pretty good. I settled for ceramic coating the stock Ford bracket parts and it looks fine to me.

Good luck.

Paul