Light weight drive pulley’s
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- Black_FTOGPX
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Light weight drive pulley’s
Hi Guy’s looking at the uniquie site they have pully kits for a few cars. Which increase power by 6kw’s?
Does anybody know of a place that makes these for the FTO?
Does anybody know of a place that makes these for the FTO?
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without knowing which ones your talking about i can give you general information..
anything which turns... the lighter it is the less power is required to turn it... the more power that is let to create forward motion...
Unqiue Dyno prove all mods so their quoted gains should be legit...
if its for a 300z then John will be running it on his race car and it will have been proven on that...
anything which turns... the lighter it is the less power is required to turn it... the more power that is let to create forward motion...
Unqiue Dyno prove all mods so their quoted gains should be legit...
if its for a 300z then John will be running it on his race car and it will have been proven on that...
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*nods* true but one component I wouldn't lighten too much is the flywheel.
Sure you'll get a gain from lightening it as it takes less torque to spin, therefore more torque is passed to the wheels, therefore increased acceleration, it however the whole purpose of the flywheel is to keep the engine ticking over to the next cycle at lower rpm =) Lose this effect and you'll start to get a car that wants to stall at low rpm. (or in other words, its RPM level that it stalls at is raised)
Also whenever you lighten anything in the driveline the phenomenon of engine braking is lessened as there is less reciprocial mass , therefore the engine will spin up faster to the correct RPM.
So in effect, you get what appears to be a more responsive engine.
Anyways if you're gonna get a lighter flywheel, I'd suggest raising the idle RPM =) but economy starts to suffer =P
It's all fun and games =)
Sure you'll get a gain from lightening it as it takes less torque to spin, therefore more torque is passed to the wheels, therefore increased acceleration, it however the whole purpose of the flywheel is to keep the engine ticking over to the next cycle at lower rpm =) Lose this effect and you'll start to get a car that wants to stall at low rpm. (or in other words, its RPM level that it stalls at is raised)
Also whenever you lighten anything in the driveline the phenomenon of engine braking is lessened as there is less reciprocial mass , therefore the engine will spin up faster to the correct RPM.
So in effect, you get what appears to be a more responsive engine.
Anyways if you're gonna get a lighter flywheel, I'd suggest raising the idle RPM =) but economy starts to suffer =P
It's all fun and games =)
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LightenedPulley Kit for my FTO is one Mod that im down for.
My Friend and i were already considering this project and soon 2 commence as he has access to the tools/software etc.
Does any one have this on thier car already?????
MIVEC can already Rev hard - why not rev faster!

My Friend and i were already considering this project and soon 2 commence as he has access to the tools/software etc.
Does any one have this on thier car already?????
MIVEC can already Rev hard - why not rev faster!

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I've searched the whole net and couldnt find one place that sell lightened pulleys.
MADFTO wrote:
MADFTO wrote:
I have a carbon flywheel and the effect of a heavy duty clutch with the light flywheel is unbelievable when launched at high rpms but dricing normally is a bit of a struggle, because it stalls frequantly.you'll start to get a car that wants to stall at low rpm