At 02:36 PM 8/19/97 +0000, acasey@mail.io.com wrote:
>> I thought about it, but it would slow down my alternator RPM's at idle.
>> I'm afraid that I would drop too much voltage at the stop lights w/ the
>> stereo on.
>
>I use the pulley's, it does drop the the voltage while at idle on a
>stock alternator. At night I notice that the headlights dim when I
>am at idle especially with the ac or heater on. In fact I belive
>thats what caused my MSD to fail. MSD replaced my unit and told me to
>hook it up to the battery instead.
>The plus side is it did drop my 1/4 mile time 1/10th. If I needed
>more voltage, I would probably just go with a better alternator.
>
Don't underdriven pulleys cause a problem for belt driven superchargers?
I realize that this is not an issue for most of us (myself included) but I
know that there are people on the list who are installing or want to install
superchargers someday.
-Jon-
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