raph130 said:
i dont want to hear any wise cracks from you or anyone else f**kbag. i'll answer someones question or correct someone without wise cracks. saying a pulley hurts the crank/oil pump is like saying running the engine without the belt on is gonna hurt the crank/oil pump. only thing thats gonna hurt is the engine once it overheats because the water pump isn't turning, which is not the point of this analogy.
Listen @$$hat, I wasn’t singling you out in particular, so STFU. You don’t have to agree with our point, but you sure as hell don’t have to be a jerk-off about it either. You haven’t begun to see me make smart-@$$ed remarks yet, so with that being said, if I want any more lip from you, I’ll rattle my zipper! It’s funny how you call me names, then pull off a high and mighty attitude by stating how you’d answer someone else’s question and correct them without wisecracks, when in you’re very next post you just called tomustang’s comment “rediculous and extremely laughable”! Please refer to
www.followyourowndamnadvice.com …..and BTW, you spelled ridiculous incorrectly.
I’ll say if for you again, seeing as how you missed it the first time around. Running U/D pulleys are not a guarantee of engine failure. As it has been stated many times in this thread, some have been using them for years without problem. I personally don’t think that it’s really a big deal for a stock or modest bolt on engine that’s not going to be seeing any time past the stock red line. However…as you may or may not know Modular engines are in fact internally balanced. Not only that, but as shown in the picture a few posts previous, the oil pump is located and used in direct relation to the crank shaft with their application. As such, altering the “dampner” on the pulley end of this crank shaft does have some (even a miniscule) negative effect on the engine harmonics. The harder and further it revs, the more detrimental are its effect. If that weren’t bad enough, the oil pump gears on a modular engine are made of bean counter powdered metal and have a tendency to break under excessive engine harmonics, load and undue stress. Hence all of the busted oil pump gears we keep hearing about and the availability of billet gears as a replacement. Again, I’m not saying that oil pump failure is a guarantee with pulleys, but it is in fact a reality. A reality that anyone who’s considering doing any serious modifications to a modular engine, should consider during a build up!
Is that a clear and concise enough point?
