I just bought a 94 lude motor to put into my EG, I was thinking of having the guy who is giving the motor a once over intsall a few things, one of them was one of the crank pulleys from Unorthodox Racing. Please don't hit me with "Underdrive pulleys will destroy your motor!", I've been doing nothing but researching them for almost a month and have talked to about 20 people and heard both sides of every story, and still felt safe getting one installed. While browsing the UR website I noticed this,

http://unorthodoxracing.blogspot.com...ifference.html

It seems like this would be a perfect solution to my quest for a lightened crank pulley without the possibility of issues involved with removing the stock one. Anyone have any thoughts on this or any information? With this also I was thinking about a mild all motor build, hence it being posted in this forum. Wanted to do something like this along with a lightened flywheel, and maybe skunk2 pro 1 cams along with all the titanium valvetrain stuff they offer, along with I/H/E. Short ram intake, and custom mandrel bent 2.25 exhaust with a skunk2 megapower muffler. Thoughts comments? The motor has 160k miles on it, but I'm having the owner of the performance shop I'm buying it from take the motor apart and replace any bad or worn bearings and give it a once over. Already has a new manual tensioner installed. Also has had the tranny fully rebuilt. If I hear anything about H weight issues, I will put a gypsy curse on you. No, I don't care that it's mildly heavier for 40 more HP and 40 ft/lb of torque at 5250 RPM.

 

That damper looks interesting, but who knows when it will actually be available; you could be waiting a long while. And hopefully you don't mind being a test car for it since no one has run it yet, and known problems have yet to be discovered.

That aside, lightened flywheel is always a plus, cams & valvetrain will be good, but much better with a good valve job if you're getting into the head. Spend some decent money on a header, and go with at least a 2.5" mandrel bent exhaust if not a 3". There are numerous comparisons in the prelude forum, and they have all made power with the 3" without losing much if anything on the bottom end.

Most importantly, don't forget good engine management and a good tune.

 

spend 95 bucks on a new euro r pully and call it a day

and instead of spending money on cams, valvetrain, i/h/e etc, spend it on a b16 trans and evo h2b kit