taguy16

What was the serpentine bracket set-up for 305TBI engines without A/C? Someone put a truck 5.7 engine in the '89 Camaro I got which I believe has brackets that sit too high to be used in a car, so I'm trying to figure what I need to put it back to the car serpentine set-up. I believe there was still one large aluminum bracket that housed the alternator and power steering pump (that was specific to cars), but I'm needing to know if there was a separate one for the belt tensioner (and pulley) or whether this also attached to the previously mentioned bracket in non-A/C cars, since they wouldn't have had the A/C bracket to attach it to like the A/C equipped cars did..

Thanks for any help.

Tuned Performance

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Tuned Performance

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You can get a a/c delete pulley if needed, pulley offset is different as well with tbi trucks.

taguy16

That's for a car with all the bells and whistles. I'm sure GM wouldn't have installed all those parts on a car with no A/C or air pump, because that would have been extra production cost for them. There had to be a way to mount the tensioner/idler pulley without having to have all the stuff shown in that listing.

Tuned Performance

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For non a/c they just had a delete pulley same as tbi truck. Two different styles of delete for air.

taguy16

It must have been easier for them to do it that way because it doesn't seem like a good design to be turning pulley that don't do anything except hold the belt. Seems like extra friction, not to mention an extra fast moving part to wear out eventually.