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Tech Area => General Buick Tech => Topic started by: Be4u on July 22 2005, 03:29:47 AM

Title: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Be4u on July 22 2005, 03:29:47 AM

Should I get one and put it on now while the engine is sitting in my living room or is it easily done at a later time when the engine is in the car?

Whats up with them? HP gains? Is it worth buying one?

Title: Re: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Top Speed on July 22 2005, 08:07:14 AM

Do you also lower your engine into bed at night and sleep with it?

Title: Re: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Gary Wells on July 22 2005, 08:57:45 AM

FWIW & IMHO:
I can't say that I have had any first hand experience with them on a turbo Buick, but most of the threads that I have seen indicate that they don't work as well on turbo Buicks as they do on rustangs & such. Just my $ .02 worth, before taxes, too. I would never put them on a nice motor like yours, fwiw. On a high mileage motor getting ready to go for a rebuild, I would try anything once.

Title: Re: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Top Speed on July 22 2005, 09:53:52 AM

For an engine like yours, I would put nothing less than a complete set of standard size RJC Racing billet pulleys.

Title: Re: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Be4u on July 22 2005, 10:20:16 AM

Yeah, I've never read a sig that says "i use underdrive pullies and run 11's".

I plan on getting the pullies from RJC oneday...maybe sooner than later. Dont know yet. I have Vegas to think about. I promise TopSpeed, I'm not trying to make my engine look like yours :prayer:

Oh, and also, Didnt you want to have sex with your engine? Thats the perks of not having a garage! "baby, if I dont put it inside, someone will steal it".  :supz:

Title: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: 87natty on July 22 2005, 04:37:59 PM

I think that was me, I wanted to tape pictures of his engine to the back of a girls head.

Title: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Be4u on July 22 2005, 05:06:15 PM

Quote from: "87natty @ Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:37 pm"

I think that was me, I wanted to tape pictures of his engine to the back of a girls head.

You are correct! How about downing a 12 pack and tapeing a pic of my engine to the back of a girls head?  :rofl;

Title: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Turbo Archie on July 22 2005, 05:17:51 PM

It dims your lights and fucks up your power steering at idle.

Title: Re: Whats up with under drive pullies?
Post by: Recklessrob on July 23 2005, 02:47:36 AM

I have a set of March pulleys, that I bought slightly used at a swap meet.
The guy I bought them from had an 11 sec GN, but not because of the pulleys alone.
If your GN is a street car with a big stereo, I wouldn't recommend them because
they slow down the alternator. Otherwise they're fine. HP gains arent very much
(approximately 6-10HP),but a horse power gain is still a gain. They're also
easily changed in the car, if you have suitable tools for the job.