I had a racing shop make the suggestion to take off the belt on the power steering and the AC compressor it may help out my times racing. Anyone tried this?? What were the results.
Ryan

 

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Did the shop look at your car......I think we have a serpentine belt which is one belt wraped around all accessories in our engine. Including the ac and power steering pump

 

if you look at it there are two belts there, yes the one belt is wraped aroudn the ac and power steering so they thought about taking just that one off, we didnt go to to much detail with it yet im gonna take a more detaield look today.

 

I know this is more of a honda thing to do but hey every little bit helps

 

I am very surprised that no one has looking into this at all...

 

theoreticaly doing that will increase your acceleration simply becuase there are less moving parts for your motor to turn. You can either romove the belt if it is seperate, or you can buy a smaller belt and just skip the places where the power steering and ac hooks up.

If you really want to benifit from doing something like this, take out your ac all together. you will save at least 150lbs.

Also a quick note. try turning your car or keeping it strait at anywhere near 100 mph with out power steering, work on those fore arms!

 

I never get near 100 on the strip ill just do this before i goto the track then put it back on when i get home.

 

supposively every pulley that u put on the car take about 10 hp because its turning more parts, so by theory if u take both of those off u will be getting about 20 hp. it sounds like a lot to me but this is what i have learned in auto class. give it a shot and let us know how it goes

 

i will post up after words

 

My guess is that, so long as your AC is off, removing the belt from it will help very little. If the AC is off, then it's clutch is disengaged and that belt is essentially free-spinning, rather than running the compressor.

So removing that belt should save you power on the power steering, but I would figure an autocross would be rather difficult without it. I'd rather the loss in power and the better control with power streering than vice-versa.
-N

 

im drag racing not auto crossing

 

Sorry, didn't catch that. I don't do the drag thing though, so I don't know how potentially difficult that would be. I imagine there's some steering to do to stay straight and I imagine that should something go wrong, the difference of having and not having power steering may be the difference between a crash or not. But like I said, I don't know drag racing...
-N

 

I could have sworn we have one serpentine belt. I'm going to doublecheck that tomorrow.

 

i heard about this too... but i am took skared to touch the belts in my engine