GP Light Weight Protege pulleys
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- 92 & 16 Meyatas
i think they're on the way...No PS pulley here yet
I'm sure he would like to have a life...he already has a full time job, so unless he were to give that up...
Edit; I guess he DOES have other plans...good for him for taking his successful business out into the open (thumb)
Edit; I guess he DOES have other plans...good for him for taking his successful business out into the open (thumb)
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Yes I do.
No PS pulley here yet
They are on the way.
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- 2004 Redondo Red Pearl Acura TL
Brach, just to give you a heads up, try the MX6 crowd. They have a pretty big fan bases still plus most of their items can be used on the Ford Probe also.
Good to hear, the protege aftermarket must be maintained.
If you are ever interested in building a site for Dark Alliance Motorsports, I'm sure there would be a bunch of us (including me) on here that would be more than willing to do one up for you with the whole online orders and such...just look at all the people that are sporting links to your threads and your Medieval Logo in their sigs
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My PS pulley arrived yesterday, thanks Brach it looks great. Really nice piece, I'm sure it started out as a pretty hefty piece of aluminum.
Installing all 3 tomorrow. I'll go snap some pics of them.
let us know how the Butt dyno feels!
Will do, I'll go ahead and do some before and after pulls with the accelerometer too... not as good as a dyno, but it should show any difference.
Camera is all charged up, going to snap some pics now.
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Hey Brach, I'm trying to figure out if you have crank pullies left. The first page says 2, but then there are posts a couple days old saying 1. Are there any? Sorry to clutter more in the thread, but it's getting even more confusing.
There is 1 crank pulley left. Sorry, I'll update the first page.
Also, Powersteering Pulleys are now instock.
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Can you point me to there forum?
The dead pedal GP has begun.
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3505290#post3505290
http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3505290#post3505290
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- Blue MP3/06 MPV
I just took the last crank pulley too, so go ahead and mark those as SOLD OUT!
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- 2004 Redondo Red Pearl Acura TL
Got mine in there today. Install went way longer than I thought because of a couple snags. First, and I'm not sure if it is just that I am lowered or what, but there was absolutely no way to get the alternator out of my car without pulling the passenger side driveshaft. We ended up just rotating the alternator downward and resting it on the driveshaft so we could get at the pulley from underneath. I secured the stock pulley with a oil filter wrench, and took the bolt off with an impact. New pulley went right on and that was pretty much it for the alternator pulley install. Don't even try this without an impact.
WP was a piece of cake. 4 bolts and pulley is off, slapped the new one on and it was done.
The PS pulley was a PITA. I highly recommend that anyone doing this pulley takes it to a shop and has the old one pressed off and the new one pressed on. We had to hit autozone to borrow a 5-ton puller, and it absolutely destroyed my stock pulley. Then, the new one was pretty tough to get on. I stuck it in the oven for a total of 20 mins at 200-250 degrees, and it wasn't enough. I had to bash the living crap out of it with a block of wood and mallet, ended up pressing it on about a 16th inch too far, and broke my PS pressure sensor off in the process. Take that sensor off first if you do this pulley yourself, I wish I had.
Overall wasn't too bad though, and the pulleys are top-notch. Definitely a noticeable butt-dyno difference on my car at 6-7psi, and the accelerometer is showing a 6hp increase. Won't blow your socks off but the gain is there for sure.
I will post a how-to thread soon, need to get all my pictures and thoughts organized.
WP was a piece of cake. 4 bolts and pulley is off, slapped the new one on and it was done.
The PS pulley was a PITA. I highly recommend that anyone doing this pulley takes it to a shop and has the old one pressed off and the new one pressed on. We had to hit autozone to borrow a 5-ton puller, and it absolutely destroyed my stock pulley. Then, the new one was pretty tough to get on. I stuck it in the oven for a total of 20 mins at 200-250 degrees, and it wasn't enough. I had to bash the living crap out of it with a block of wood and mallet, ended up pressing it on about a 16th inch too far, and broke my PS pressure sensor off in the process. Take that sensor off first if you do this pulley yourself, I wish I had.
Overall wasn't too bad though, and the pulleys are top-notch. Definitely a noticeable butt-dyno difference on my car at 6-7psi, and the accelerometer is showing a 6hp increase. Won't blow your socks off but the gain is there for sure.
I will post a how-to thread soon, need to get all my pictures and thoughts organized.
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