anyone please post a good picture (s) of the crank pulley only! thankyou

 

 

I think it doesnt look good unless you have all 3 installed. But if you are going strictly for power gains, just get the 1 I've heard.

 

the other 2 pulleys do nothing for performance... they are the same size as the stock pulley's and do not weigh much less...

one of them is hard to see too...

 

3 piece UR Pulley set with power steering bypassed.

 

Wow! How hard is that to drive?

Mine with the 265's up front and very slow speeds is kinda rough...

and what size belt did you use?

 

Is that a strickly a track set-up and if not why don't you just take out the power steering pump and plug the rack? You would lose a couple of pounds.

 

I wish they made all of those other pullies down there in those 4 finishes as well. I think there are 8 pullies in total including the crank, alt, and w/p? I know it wouldn't put out any extra power, but I think it would look a lot nicer than the stock ones to have them in one of those shiny colored finishes for people that have done up their engines.

 

The original plan was to remove the pump altogether, but I had to make sure that I was manly enough to handle a daily driver with no power steering. So far so good. I wanted to give it a couple of weeks of driving to see what kind of issues I would run into. Thus far, the only thing that's been somewhat hard, is parking. It takes a good effort to turn the wheel below 5 MPH. You just have to learn to begin rolling before turning. You can still turn it while you are stopped; you just need to make sure you ate your Wheaties that morning. As for once you are under speed, I prefer no power steering. After you remove the power steering, you feel like the car was helped too much by the power steering. Now turns feel awesome and it takes more effort to accidentally jerk the steering a little too much either way.

Does anyone think that by changing the size of the pulley on the powering steering pump, it would reduce the amount of assist it gives you? If so, would it be bad for the pump, or actually increase it’s life by reducing the amount of work it’s doing. If I could have the use of a little assist during parking and very little while driving, I think this would be the ideal setup for the Z.

 

Yeah I agree with you I have driven a few cars without power steering and they feel really good going down the road, but when it comes time to park...it sucks.

I'm guessing a bigger PS pulley would reduce the RPMs on the pump thus giving you less assistance in the power steering. But wouldn't you lose power turning a bigger pulley?

Experiment and let us know, hehe.

 

Just wondering if you tried driving the car with the crank pulley installed... it does make steering a little bit harder...

But I Think I know something else you are refering too... and a better way to get rid of it...

With the Z's power steering you get some "assistance" in steering... As soon as I completely disabled my VDC / Traction Control the steering is more responsive to every little thing you do. Responds quicker. Even if you press the button to "turn off VDC" every movement the car goes through feels delayed...

Know what I mean?

Our race cars still have power steering with the UR Crank Pulley underdriving it...