The blower is complaining in the video. Whipple reviewed it and didn't even want me to pull the blower off. Something is out of alignment (pulleys) and after starting the car without a belt the noise went away but the car has been under excessive vibration at idle and just as bad with the everything disconnected. Long story short, isolation leads to the balancer but we'll see what happens after that is replaced. I am somewhat relieved that it may not be the blower entirely, but hoping for the best when we replace the balancer. I was originally set on removing the blower to have it rebuilt, but the $185 balancer is quite a bit cheaper.
It's been getting worse over time, and that video is from a couple weeks ago after the blower was hot from the hour long drive (60mph cruise) home from Kidd Valley. Starting the car cold you can't hear the clicking until it gets warm, but I pulled into Arlington that night where a car show was still in progress and everyone looked it over while giving me some pointers.
Fortunately I only live down the street and limped it home, haven't driven it since. I haven't been so much as hard on the car the past year, my problem with racing is having traction tires and snapping something in the drive line again. Not having a tow vehicle of my own, I refuse to be a burden to someone like I was last time ... I used my silver bullet with the gracious help of the Fbody team (Mark, Ellis) so until I can get a better platform in place to be self sufficient (tow rig, stronger drive line) I'll just have to back out of racing the Cobra.
The money I need to invest into safety items for the times I would be running isn't worth it at this time unfortunately and running street tires isn't conducive to running consistently in a bracket race. I have just too much power for street tires and add in the manual transmission it makes it really tough.
A number of things financially have to happen before I can get out there again, but if things clear up I'll be out there ASAP.
