I'm not sure what happend to his pulley.. I think his was built with the similar aluminum. and I think he said that it cracked or something.. Everyone so far haven't had any problems with it so I trust u guys.. thx

 

duh?! yeah! he got full underbody lightning....6 colors!!!

 

LOL insomniac, I'm not expecting 400 hp out of my RA. Thats what i told my friend that it might be his problem.. but i think the pulley will be fine for my RA thx guys for the advice

 

I've had mine on for over 13 months and 30,000 miles, no problems here.

 

If it was a cheap cast pulley I could see it breaking... My brother bought a really inexpensive pulley kit once for his 240sx and it was cast... He ran it, but I was not a huge fan of the inferior materials...

 

Shop manual says 18 ft*lbs, plus or minus 3.

 

If the pulley was cast it would be heavier and a horrible upgrade.

Any good pulley is spun and CNC milled out of aluminium. If you drop the pulley and damage it or something else stupid then of course it might have caused the problem. I cannot see any reason how the pulley would fall apart.

 

As to my previous post... I meant cast aluminum, not steel...

 

I'm proud to say I was in the first group to buy the pulley when joe first started making them. I've also put nearly 20K miles on mine and its goin strong. In my oppinion, as far as cost effectiveness goes this is still the best mod I've put on my car, besides maybe the heated throttlebody mod that cost me about 3 bucks. If you follow the directions that come with the pulley, you should have no difficulty installing this part the right way. I know that Joe used to even have a video up, perhaps he still does somewhere.....? RRM should be hosting that stuff if ya do, videos rule.

 

I've had the pully for a few hundred miles now and no problems. I have other upgrades as well.

 

Kool..NO problems I see, thx guys

 

I could be wrong but I don't think they CAST aluminum...

 

I got mine from the first batch that Joe made .now its have over 30k miles and not a problem just the power it frees that makes me happy! And the installation its less than an hour (for me was 35 minutes aprox) very easy

 

I don't think so either. I work in a metal distribution and processing plant and I have never seen cast aluminum. In any case, the aluminum rod and bar are usually an extrusion, and even aluminum dies are extrusions and not castings.

 

Transmission bellhousings are cast, then machined. Same with aluminum cylinder heads.