Drivetrain (Cooper S) MINI Cooper S (R53) intakes, exhausts, pulleys, headers, throttle bodies, and any other modifications to the Cooper S drivetrain.

Drivetrain lite weight pulley for accessorys.

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Old Nov 7, 2003 | 08:00 AM
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since the trend seems to be going towards the 19% pulley for the tuner cars is
is anyone working on lite weight reduction pulleys for alt.-water-powersteering?

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Old Nov 7, 2003 | 08:19 AM
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Seeing that the waterpump is driven by the supercharger (it's mounted on the opposite end) and the power steering is electrically driven, that leaves the alternator and a/c, both of which arent very suitable for a lightweight upgrade (the a/c pulley is about as small as it can get and HAS to be made of steel for the magnetic properties, and the alternator pulley is already quite small).

The common hotrodders trick of making the crank pulley smaller (to 'underdrive' the accessories) would run counter to making performance gains on a supercharged engine because you will be driving the 'charger slower after installing such a pulley and LOSING power.

 
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Old Nov 7, 2003 | 08:31 AM
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my bad.
 
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