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Originally Posted by prepreludesh
I don't think you'll even be able to go 80mph at 4k rpms without a belt, let alone untuned with one.
Do us a favor, take your car out on the highway for 5 to 10 minutes with the belt off and just see how it runs. I guarantee you won't be able to get it to 80mph first of all. I know when my belt snaps on my supercharger, I struggle to get it to even 55mph. And it takes 4 times as long, if not more. There is simply no throttle response. So now try to merge in to the 80mph traffic on a short offramp after your refueling and food stops (which you'll have to do at least 8 times I bet) and see how safe that is. If an accident occurs in which you need punch it or if somebody is coming up on your ass and you can't pass the guy on your side, you're going to feel like an asshole for having to slow down and move behind him for the car behind you to pass.
I don't think you're understanding the complications of getting your car down there, your vehicle is going to be technically unsafe and the sheer concentration of driving it that way will exhaust you.
By the way, I'm sure you have this part all figured out too, but what are you going to do when you get down there and this guy can't get to your car right away? What are you going to do if it takes him a long time to even get the car tuned? I will speak from experience that this stuff happens and stuff will break, things will fail and problems you didn't even know you had will come up. Are you financially prepared to sink money into this car for those emergency situations? If not, are you mentally prepared to leave the car there and go back to New Jersey? Are you financially prepared to buy a last minute plane ticket to fly back up when the car is taking too long or do you have that much time to take off of work?
I just can't see how, with the penny pinching you're doing by thinking you can drive the car down there how it is, that you can afford anything if the slightest error happens. The cost of sparkplugs alone will eat you alive after you keep fouling them due to the rich fuel mixture (yeah, even though you swapped in the stock injectors).
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You have very valid points. but let me clear a few things up.
First of all, I had driven it to work, and it drove 80mph without the belt no problem, so I wasn't too concerned about that. I was more concerned about the one injector leaking (which was due to an o-ring being cracked but is now fixed).
Secondly, I don't know if you remember me wondering why the pulley didn't line up with the belt tensioner pulley. Well if you'll remember, I fixed that problem by pushing the pulley on further...too far to be exact. the whole reason the car was slightly hesitant when i drove it to work the other day was because I had the pulley on a little too much which was causing it to hit the blower housing, and in return preventing the rotors from turning. I backed the nut off about 1.5 threads and moved the pulley back, which allowed the blower to spin freely and allowing enough air to be sucked in. I took it out for a drive and you couldn't even tell a stock IM wasn't installed. The reason why yours barely runs when the belt breaks is because you have those larger injectors in there dumping more fuel than your engine can suck without a blower. With my stock injectors back in, it can suck the proper amount of air through the blower no problem, therefore allowing me to obtain the proper A/F ratio.
As for the tuner, we have that all worked out and he is going to be there the day I come down...he knows my situation and has been following my thread so that won't be a problem. I do know that stuff happens, and I guess I will have to cross that bridge when the time comes. I'm going to bring all my stock parts with me so if something goes horribly wrong like you say I can revert back to stock.
I appreciate your input, and want it to keep coming.
btw, what afr are you running with your sc?
