So monday i finally had some free time and i installed this bad boy. The stock pulley was kinda hard to get off because of the way my big brake kit works. there are so many pistons and ect that when the car isn't moving you can't fully lock the front brakes so my sister was holding the brakes and they were creaping a little and my air compressor is too wussy to break the bolt SO what i had to do is get a long steel rod and wedge it between two of my lug nuts and the ground(this might work for you auto guys too instead of hacking up you flywheel. Even after all that it only took me like an hour cus i knew exactly what to do. The recommeneded belt size for the a/c alternator worked find BUT the 400292 for the PS was WAY WAY WAY WAY WAY too short. i coulnd't even walk it on SO i said well i have no other choice to try the stock belt and hopefully i can at least drive to Napa and get the 400300 which is longer BUT the stock belt fit. i had to use pretty much all of the adjustment of the PS pump but it's propery tensioned and fits. the pulley wen't on fine and everything seems to be fine. no weird shakes at high rpms car idles fine. it MIGHT feel a little better mid range but it's tough to say. it got REALLY cold monday too so my butt dyno's where off from teh warmer weather. i'm going to the track friday and dyno sometime in a few weeks and i did have a baseline to go on so we'll be able to compare. Pulley is good way lighter thent eh stock one too. that stock one is like a brick. And for those worried about idle power, i played x-box for an hour last night just sitting at idle with my 1000watt rms stereo blasting and the car never studdered.

 

x-box this and x-box that.....

you are sounding like a broken record..



do you sleep at home? in a house? i mean you are always in the car..

 

i didn't tel you i installed a fridge and a pull out bed fold out from my trunk. lol it's like my own apartment with the best surround sound i've ever heard.

 

sweetttttt.... hehe



keep us posted on the results of the UDP..

 

1000 watts?

 

ya i know i need more. i want a sub that can handle that much by itself RMS you wouldn't happen to know of one woudl ya

 

nope

and how do you figure you have 1000 watts? we quote RMS .. not Peak

 

yes yes tell us you RMS...

 

Phoenix Gold XS 2500 at 2 ohm 700 watts RMS Phoenix Gold Tantrum 600.4 75wattsX4 RMS so that's let's see 1000 watts.

 

and what is your address again? i might be in the area soon..

 

those are PEAK watts.. not RMS Watts

 

no Phoenix GOld definetly quotes RMS i have teh certification papers that come with them from when they are testeed.

 

 

you are right

 

 

Weren't you developing a pulley of your own?

 

1000 rms? At what Ohmage, and for what application (sealed, ported, bandpass (hahaha) & SPL, SQ?)

RF HX^2 Power's will do it. MATT's Juggernaut, but frankly, I think 1k watts for a jugg is a waste Personally, if I had the money and were going to buy new subs, for 1k watt's a piece, and for mainly SQ purposes (but enough SPL to blow anything else within a 1 mile radius out of the water ), I'd go with an audiomobile MASS sub. They:

a) look amazing

b) sound amazing SPLwise and SQwise

aaaaaaand,

c) 1200w RMS.

Only bummer is the price tag on em. Mind you, it's less than the RF & Juggernauts, but they're still a pricey sub in my book ($5000 of HP mods > $5000 of sound, so anything soundwise is pricey to me now)

 

my cousin has a 12 inch audiomobile in his car and it sucks monkey nuts..

ask him why the 12 inch ID Max i was running at 3/4 the watts he was pushing out had much better SQ and SPL ..

 

i won't know. this pulley is good and it's a great price. i'll focus on some of the more obscure mods i want to make for you guys. STS adapters for 2k2-up poly mounts, 2k2 y-pipes ect.

 

Did you pick up that PG XS2500 used? If not, where did you get it new? I need to find one for cheap to add to my system

 

its discontinued.. he got it off ebay

 

That X-box plays some good movies too...............

 

ya until Fawn broke my remote last night when she stepped on it. there is no visible damage but it no longer works. i can't even hit play so now i have to return that and get a new one. AND remember how the powerconvertor died. i needed a new one and the new one i got didn't work then i finally got a new one last night and now she broke the remote. grr.

 

ID's are good as well, I forgot about those. I've seen MASS's put out numbers about 1.2dB behind a set of DD's, with the same car and the same amount of power. Considering the DD's are a pure SPL sub that run with the likes of the jugg, that's really damn good Was he running MASS's? I wouldn't buy anything other than those from Audiomobile, the other subs they have look kinda chintzy.

 

i am not sure whch one.. but they were suposedly top of the line..

 

so this will fit on the 2k2 w/o any problems?

 

so far so good. one thing, you should replace the seal while you have the pulley off. i forget about it and didn't but everything is fine my seal was pretty new anyway. but it's cheap and good insurance.

 

what is the seal called? b/c i'm going to have a shop do it for me..so i can tell him to replace that part also... thanks

 

umm, i forgot the exact name, someone help. it's something like the front engine seal. crank shaft oil seal. i can't remember. i did it on my 95 but that's cus it was older.

 

well since my car is 2002 also... should i not worry about it since it will be kind of new also?

 

well the reason i didn't freak when i rememeber is i do all my own installs and if it started to leak i would just pull the pulley and repalce it then. but for you who has someone do their installs on harder parts like this i would say do it just to save install money later.

 

i c... thanks for the tip steve