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another ebay bargain or not?


Guest gzaerojon

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Guest gzaerojon

i saw this and was just wondering if anyone has bought a set.

i'm not sure if they do what they say they do but they look feckin BLING. :D

shall i waste my money?

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Heard bad things about lightened crank pulleys - something to do with not being dampened or somesuch thing - can shorten the life of the engine. On the celicas, the underdrive pulleys would cause vibrations that would eventually cause the oil pump to die horribly.

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It's not just harmonics, there are all sort of weird stresses applied on these pulleys, that sloppily-designed (and perhaps machined) units may not sustain for long.

 

And if they really *are* underdrive, then I'd wonder if the battery/alternator/electrical/PAS systems are really all that over-specced from the factory.

 

They also claim 5-8bhp gains, which is a cloud coockoo-land estimate

 

[/victor meldrew]

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