CyMax

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First and formost I have to thank Matt of 4DSC.com for the awesome write up on his site. I would highly suggest anyone that is going to try this themselves, even you old timers, print and use this as a referance. Everytime I had a question on any aspect of the install, it was in there somewhere. The install went easy as pie, of course I was aided by the Dad's impact gun and a "rented" Pully puller kit. I would reccomend having both of these, if you need them and dont have them it would have been a *****! The only other thing I would say, is having a helper is a great thing as well. The only time I really needed it was torqueing the pully bolt. Once I got to about 100lbs the engine would turn! Helper + brake pedel = happy installer.

First drive after the install, VERY pleased! I expected a bit of noticable gain, but this far exceded myt expetations. Engine revved up quicker, obvious increase of power, and to my pleasure no noticible differance in temp of Ac, no dimming lights, ect, ect. If your dont have one, get one easy to install reasonably cheap, and great bang for the buck.

«§»Craig B«§»

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CyMax

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Yes Craig you too have a great site.

And with that being said I'll be useing it to clean my EGR valve, throttle body and advance my timing next weekend. That is if the Wifey dosent drag my **** all over town "shopping".

Tarzan

What brand is your pulley and how much did it ring you?

«§»Craig B«§»

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look at the author of that article on 4dsc

CyMax

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Craig I'm sorry. I just gave Matt the credit 'cause that is where I found the write up. My bad. In this case your write up is the BOMB!!! Thanks man.

CyMax

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I bought it slightly used along with some other stuff. I really dont recall the breakdown on prices. Sorry man.

garbury

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The pulley I got was an ASP. It was like 126 shipped. The belts cost another 30, plus 8 or so for the front main seal from the dealer (If you haven't had the crank pulley off before and done this, you should do it now). Alltogether, it was about 160. You may need more money for the crank nut socket, a tool to break the nut off and a pulley puller.

EDIT: you have a VG, the only available pulley for VGs is the unorthodox racing one. Those are around 200 for the pulley itself, so figure about 240 if you were to put a UDP on your max.

Tarzan

two hundred dead presidents is crazy! If I'll ever decide I want a pulley, I'll cast it myself.

CyMax

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I think I ended up paying like 4 something for the Pully and the Flywheel.

MrGone

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I didn't notice very much with the UDP


if anything it felt a little smoother but meh.

thajones

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I've got some dimming now, fer pete's sake, Lord help me if I get a pulley.

I still want one

Congrats!

KLoWnPR109

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i never noticed any difference w/ any mods really

Cliff Clavin

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I don't know if it was my imagination, but the engine felt smoother and seemed much easier to bring to redline when I added the UDP. Not noticeable daily driving, but up at the top end, it seemed to help.

With only two mods (UDP and GReddy Cat-back) I shaved almost 4 tenths (.40) off of my quarter mile time. I am going to assume that most of that was the UDP.

tripleGmax

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clean your grounds, get a grounding kit from matt93se and you should lose the dimming lights. if you dont then your battery or alt. is bad.

blackandwhite

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DId you buy it from ASP directly? I few of us have had an issue with the aluminum leaking around the seal....they fix it by putting a steel sleeve on the shaft.

MrGone

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clean grounds help a lot. Although a cap never hurt. HID's are nice (35w vs 55 or whatever you are running).

nForce

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I have it. I noticed a much smoother acceleration and quicker response too. I agree it is smoother but I do notice some dimming now and then.

CyMax

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On this topic, I added to Matts kit by running a dedicated 02 gauge body ground. Tho when my Alt whent to heck my battery overflowed and I guess the spilt acid screwed up the connection on the stock body ground. Before I installed ANY of the upgraded grounds or the additionals I hit them liberally with sandpaper and Lithium grease.

internetautomar

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I noticed it reved up faster, when I had it installed.
I didn't have any extra electrics on mine so I didn't have to worry about dimming

Harvs94max

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i noticed smoother acceleration and 1rst gear is now rediculous with all my mods
note: for those of you who have trouble getting the pulley off and dont want to have to rent a puller a little torch works great if you heat up around the sleeve
o and thanks brian for the udp u completed my bolt on list

internetautomar

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so toss me a couple bucks for it

Harvs94max

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i told u i would whats ur paypal address

internetautomar

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sorry, I forget so much with all the **** that's been going on as of late.
paypal to:
internet auto mart at Comcast dot net

berncity1711

Sorry to bring this post back up but Im getting another car for the winter so my max will be garged til spring. I plan on putting an unorthadox udp on my vg, and i was wondering if there was a write up specificaly for the vg or is it exatly the same as the ve? and what belts do i need? sorry if im askin for the obvious...

CyMax

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http://www.4dsc.com/articles/drivetrain/udp/udp.shtml Has directions for both VE and VG