Innovators West offers SFI-approved crankshaft dampers that will drive your Coyote engine’s supercharger 10 percent faster.

If you are running a supercharger on your Coyote engine, there’s a good chance you want to add more boost. If you want to do so without introducing belt slip, an overdrive crankshaft damper is a great option and Innovators West has both six- and eight-rib overdrive dampers for the modern 5.0 engine.

“Anything you can do down low to get bigger is going be more beneficial than trying to go small up top,” Chris Rose, Sales & Marketing at Innovators West, said of the larger damper’s advantage over a smaller blower pulley.

If you aren’t familiar with the IW dampers, they are rebuildable and SFI approved, so you’ll not only be able to add boost, but you’ll gain durability and longevity.

So far the Coyote dampers are available in six- and eight-rib configurations, but higher rib counts are in the works.

“We do all our dampers with a friction-style mechanism that does the dampening, provides us a real-wide tuning window. That gives us the ability to tune the dampening to the particular application,” Chris said. “Everything is a modular design, so we can repair, replace, or service the dampers. It also allows us to customize things if a particular application needs a blower hub, a double key, or we can change the outer cover to make it an overdrive.”

Innovators West offers six- and eight-rib versions of its overdrive dampers as well as variations with front and rear overdriven versions to work with the commonly available supercharger variants and it sounds like versions with higher rib counts for more aggressive combinations are on the way as well.

“With the overdrive it’s just more belt contact area between the belt and the damper, so it’s gonna help reduce slippage,” Chris explained. “It allows you to make more boost without going to the smaller upper pulley, which can create slippage. We also add more rib count, so with more ribs there is more belt contact and less slip.”

For more on these overdrive dampers, you can check out the Innovators West site here.