Flywheel and Pulley, Does it help a lot in hp of our car Options

[ST-204]

I just found a website that introduce the pulley and flywheel of our car, do u guys think that will help our car a lot in HP??
http://www.unorthodoxracing.com/

[MoralWarfare]

Pulleys make waste of the stock harmonic balancer, which balances your gears together to make sure they don't damage the crank. The aftermarket gears can potentially do harm to your crank, and thus I would not recommend them to you, especially due to their limited power gains.

However, they do work on the same concept as lightening a flywheel. and that concept is lightening rotational mass. Any time you lighten rotational mass, or the mass of things that rotate (duh!), it does a LOT of good for you car. A flywheel that's 10 lbs lighter than your stock flywheel allows your revs to fall faster due to its lower inertia. The lightened rotational mass means less stress on your engine to get that flywheel moving, which means more power to the ground, faster. Note: not more power created, just more already available power transferred more efficiently.

Lightening wheels will make the same type of effect. You will get better gas mileage due to less work needed to turn the wheels around, your car will be faster than if you were to take of the same weight in frictional mass (like removing your AC or jack), you benefit in handling, and you benefit in braking.

Cliff notes: Lightening rotational mass = GOOD!
Ridding yourself of harmonic balancer = BAD!

This post has been edited by MoralWarfare: Feb 22, 2004 - 3:41 AM