Smaller powerworks tesioner pulley

[bobbydo]

Have you guys thought about the idea of making a new tensioner pulley for the powerworks kit about 10mm smaller and with better bearings. It would be almost exactly the same as your upgraded tensioner pulley,but without the grooves. Make it smaller so we can fit your overdrive pulley with no tensioner pulley clearance issues. I shouldn't be the only one needing this.

[venomrogue]

Originally Posted by bobbydo

Have you guys thought about the idea of making a new tensioner pulley for the powerworks kit about 10mm smaller and with better bearings. It would be almost exactly the same as your upgraded tensioner pulley,but without the grooves. Make it smaller so we can fit your overdrive pulley with no tensioner pulley clearance issues. I shouldn't be the only one needing this.

if the PW kit still used the stock tensioner then it would have probably already have been made.

The kit uses a tensioner off a 91 Saturn. No one seems to want to make a "performance tensioner" for a saturn...go figure, eh?

That being said...why do you want an overdrive pulley? Get the smaller supercharger pullies instead so you dont have those clearance issues.

[bobbydo]

I have the massive pulley on my charger. I live at 5000 feet above sea level so my boost is pretty low to begin with. With the stock Powerworks kit, Ford Racing Head, Svt header, off road pipe etc. the most boost the kit could muster was 7 lbs of boost on a cold day. With the 6 lb pulley all I get is 11lbs of boost at redline with no belt slip. The motor is efficient but I want more boost.

I have the gates tensioner but a better pulley and bearings would be nice. If it were made smaller than the stock tensioner then people could have the ability to run the overdrive pulley with no problems, and it could work the same for people who don't want the overdrive pulley.