Testing Waters: $190 Unorthodox Crank Pulley Group Buy, thoughts?

I have spoken with Joe at Unorthodox and he told me that for around $180-$190 (rough estimate without seeing our pulleys) they would make us pulleys. Their minimum run would be about 30 units, and time frame would be about 2 months after we send them the parts/money - but of course if they are busy then we cannot expect them this soon...

Now the obvious question is whether or not their are 30 members willing to fork out the cash for this mod, and the even more difficult problem of what type of pulleys get made.

So for now I just want to see who would even be on board for such a group buy effort? At this point I am personally leaning towards getting my stock pulley modded by a machine shop, but if there is enough response for this I would help buy a Unorthodox gear to help get the group buy going.

What do you all think?

For the record I want a UNDER DRIVEN SINGLE BELT CONVERSION. This means no AC, no PS - just an underdriven water pump and underdriven alternator. :)

Were talking about aluminum pulleys right? If so, Im in.


Underdrivin single belt would be the way Id like to go, anything lighter than the stock one would be nice though.

I'll get a set of OEM belt configuration, if we go that route. AC is pretty necesary here and PS is always nice.

ya i gotta have the PS personally, but the only reason i would be doing this is so everyone else could have one.

yea i would want one with ac and ps too

just to help bobafett out heres how nice an alum underdrive pulley looks!

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...9/ef54fb37.jpg

mine is slightly underdriven with all belts for accesories

bobafett hit me up on aim

I'm at work now, but in 2-3 hours I'll be at home. :)

im in

im down

i'll take w/e is most popular

so no harmonic balancer?

I'm not sure that ours have any harmonic balancers. I guess I don't honestly know what I am looking for, but the pulley on my engine now is plain old boring metal pulley.

I know mine looks nothing like these:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1...nic%20balancer

This indicates the construction of a harmonic balancer somewhat, and mine doesn't have any of the properties he describes.
http://www.autopartscorner.com/harmo..._balancer.html

I dunno, but I always assumed we never had a harmonic balancer. :) as long the the CP is balanced I would assume we are good to go!

http://www.theoldone.com/articles/ba...r_tdc_mark.jpg

this shows a 2 piece crank pulley, the inner piece would probably contain the dampened pulley, with the outer pulley being bolted on separately.

Opinions?

im sorry i know under driven is better but what dose it mean

edit nevermind

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High-performance street cars have one big disadvantage: They still have to act like street cars most of the time. That means running power-robbing accessories like power steering, air conditioning, an alternator, and even an air pump. But there is a solution to free up horsepower while still maintaining your street car's creature comforts: Install a set of underdrive pulleys. Underdrive pulleys, also known as performance pulleys, drive your car or truck's accessories at a slower rate than stock. That means that the engine doesn't work as hard spinning the performance pulleys and the accessories attached to them--less work driving accessories means more work driving your wheels. The bottom line is that underdrive pulleys can free up as much as 15 horsepower. That's a lot of ponies for a few hundred bucks or less. We stock a variety of underdrive pulleys from industry leaders like Unorthodox Racing pulleys. Many underdrive pulley configurations are available, allowing you to tweak the amount of underdrive built in to your pulley set, a great feature for those of you wanting to run a full-speed alternator but still get gains through the power steering and air conditioning pulleys. Whatever your needs, we can supply a performance pulley set suited to your configuration.

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im in....and why is our AC belt in the middle.....i would of been nice to taken the Ac and leave the ps. also thats not a bad price.....for a custom one it would cost 5-6 hundred bucks.

Our pulleys are not dampened!

Its just a piece of cast cheap steel thats brittle as hell.

Hondas that do have dampers are usually a two pice with rubber in between the inner and outer parts to dampen the vibrations transfered by the accesory belts to the crankshaft.

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Originally Posted by MessyHonda

also thats not a bad price.....for a custom one it would cost 5-6 hundred bucks.

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I had my crank/alt/ps/water pulleys made for 180.00 ;)

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Originally Posted by guaynabo89

Our pulleys are not dampened!
Its just a piece of cast cheap steel thats brittle as hell.
Hondas that do have dampers are usually a two pice with rubber in between the inner and outer parts to dampen the vibrations transfered by the accesory belts to the crankshaft.
I had my crank/alt/ps/water pulleys made for 180.00 ;)

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why didnt you set up a group buy then....180 is a deal.

yeah definitely, if you could get your guy to do more sets that would be fantastic, and way way cheaper overall.

You know I'm in.:naughty:

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Originally Posted by nswst8

You know I'm in.:naughty:

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and we all love you....lol you know im down....

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Originally Posted by MessyHonda

and we all love you....lol you know im down....

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It's not who you know, it's who you blow.

(just messing w/ya Jessy) :lol:

Going to sponsor another, Phil?

just to ask wouldnt just a lighter-weight crank pully be alot better then stock? just in freein up the weight would help alot. i know tha trunning a underdrive on some peoples cars on here would cause chargeing isues for those volt hungry cars on here, just thought i would ask

meh, i know my crank pulley for sure has a harmonic balancer on it and im not gonna run without one, ive seen what happens to hondas that didnt have one.

personally id be cool with a set with just ps, but i dont think thats gonna happen lmao.