shinjite, what car u r driving?
mind to share the experience?

can wheelspin or not? 1st gear la
kindly monitor if it helps on fc...
i plan to change car but hand itchy to keep my current car n mod it...

haha, if can wheel spin even for auto, means more torque transmitted to wheels ma

my waja now in Maddriver's garage for new pulley and 550 degree pads...now waiting anxiously.... kekkekeee

btw, just sat on maddriver's 4g92 satria...... nice to see the rev up to 7500rpm ....with stiff shocks, less comfortable but nice handling!

hahaa, he said he is very satisfied with the car now....
wonder how much $$ he has put it...
1st, 2nd gear wheel spin
3rd gear got minimal wheel spin.... impressive enuff for 4g92 sohc la

my car not ready yet, still at maddriver garage.... waiting anxiously...

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Added on April 18, 2007, 7:29 pmokie.... bro maddie is back with my car oredi...
havent test drive yet.... will let u guys know tomorrow....
550 degree pads were fitted in too!

i will upload pic as well on the golden brown crank pulley tomorrow

going home with lighter wallet today

This post has been edited by sledgehammer: Apr 18 2007, 07:29 PM

kekeke, y dun u wait until 550degree?
or the pads very haus oredi... ?

yo guys.....

hmm, how shd i start this short review....

For lightened pulley:

With a light tap on the accelerator, the car surges forward... most beneficial is the 1st gear. (of coz la)
Throughout yesterday journey back home, i drove like usual and the car reach the usual crusing speed (90km/h) much faster. As for constant cruising, i find myself lifting off the accelerator much much often as a slight tapping on accelerator will bring the car back to the usual speed.

This morning at connaught highway, acceleration from 50km/h to 90km/h on 3rd gear on my Waja 1.6 Auto was much better... usually i will press the accelerator harder to downshift to 2nd and pull until 70km/h for overtaking... but now i just need to maintain 3rd gear and the car pull all the way to 90km/h without much hesitation from the engine.

When going up slope with 3rd gear at 45km/h, i will always need to use 2nd gear as on 3rd gear, the engine rev refuse to go up, instead the rev drops. With this pulley, the rev is climbing steadily, although not fast

As for fuel saving part with this pulley, it is too early to tell, but based on the driving style that u need to adapt, which is lighter throttle, and the ability for the car to go faster with highest gear, i believed it is possible.

This pulley makes big difference especially at low rev
honestly, i cant feel any difference when revving at 5krpm above.... anyway, my waja 4g18 is not a high revving engine. somehow expected.
So IMHO, most beneficial part for lighted pulley is at stop and go traffic. It makes the driving more pleasurable. Although my car is coupled with a lagging gearbox, the car seemed to be very light.

Overall, i am satisfied For a heavy car like waja with auto transmission, it gives much better driving experience.
But not managed to test the car with 5 ppl onboard yet. Will update if i managed to test it.


550 degree pad:
I changed only the front pads while maintaining my old ones for rears. The pads were blue in color, as u guys can see in the pic. These pads has not thoroughly run in yet.... but yet it is already felt much better than my previous pads. As of now, the pads has only gone thru less than 80km. My previous pads was recommended by some mech and it was much better than proton ori's mintye. (mintye rite? i always confused between mintex and mintye). Thus if any of u guys using mintye, upgrading to these pads will give h3ll a lot of differences!

High speed braking was much improved compared to the pads i have earlier. A 30% pedal will bring the car stop confidently as compared to my previous pads, which i need to step 50%. (Note: waja braking feel is different compared to Jap cars like sentra or vios... ). Braking effort required when jam bumper to bumper is much lesser and relaxing now.

there is no cold bite problem with this pad. The pads provide braking force like usual in the morning.
Well, i will try the brakes on genting downhill if got chance But need to run in the pads first... hehehe. At the same time, i can test the lightened pulley as well.

Overall, the pads are very satisfactory!


The OEM crank pulley pic:



thanks to bro maddriver for the EXCELLENT service and workmanship!!

em, the box written Rapid Stop....
not sure if the box is real or not coz maddriver keep my previous pads inside tht box....

wow, sounds dangerous la. ur caliper jammed izzit? the new pads shd last u for another 1 1/2 to 2 years i guess.... hehe.
i changed front only... the back remain old pads...

i think the lightened pulley shd benefit more on manual.... somehow there are times where i see the rpm climbing but the car not moving faster....then suddenly got a slight surge.... i think shd be due to torque converter lags....

one thing funny... my engine note is different now when revving.... it sounded more garang la...which i dun really understand....
how bout urs??

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Added on April 19, 2007, 5:55 pmif compare with mintye, mintye can tapau balik rumah
haha, i cant compare coz using some oem pads....

This post has been edited by sledgehammer: Apr 19 2007, 05:56 PM

hmm, then funny lor... maybe the sound is psychological effect gua....
haha, yeah. maybe can meet up at maddie's garage and chat....and kacau him also but a bit far la....kekeke
i sit in my fren's putra auto..... it doesnt really lag that much ....although i see the way he drive quite torturing the GB...
i guess for proton car's tranny, putra auto one shd be the best gua....

i think only maddriver here can answer ur 4g15 installation time la.....

haha, terror wo~ macam tu pun dapat teka

my FC will reveal after this tank now clocking on 22xkm
next refill shd be somewhere next week
last tank still managed to get 10km/l after some short period crazy driving with new pulley

btw, to all the guys that read my lightened pulley review, my waja has some mod done prior to crank pulley installation....

my mod was zenden 4-2-1 extractor and de-cat.
for auto user i dun really recommend to de-cat as it doesnt do much effect.....imho.

wow! we had the same mod la!!!


10km/l also .... jam 70% in cheras.... hehehe

bro maddy, did u do any crankshaft job like knife egde??

icic.....
i saw the discussion in zth and it sounds like very impressive...


sounds great on the fc!! despite ur mad driving style...hehehe
my next refill shd be in these 2 days.... clocking 44xkm now....
normally i refill when meter reach 500km or low fuel warning light came up (stupid fuel gauge rosak..).... if reach 550km then only warning light came up, i am happy!

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Added on April 29, 2007, 1:01 pmon acceleration wise, the lightened crank pulley serves best when the engine is within it's torque band.....

my 4g18 torque band after changing extractor is somewhere between 2k to 3.8k... (butt dyno feeling la.... nvr go dyno b4, no point la ), the surge from 3k onwards was most noticeable....
but after 4.3k.... engine characteristic i would say.... hehhe

thus i think for vtec user, when vtec surges, the difference shd be much much greater when using lightened pulley....


This post has been edited by sledgehammer: Apr 29 2007, 01:01 PM

waiting for ppl to sponsor.... hehe

huh? gearbox problem bro?

rpm drop is less noticable for my waja 1.6a

bro maddie, got pulley for nissan n16 oredi?

lol..... after install the pulley, u can't resist to drive like normal man!
u sure love revving the engine.... kekekekee.
hmm, one thing i forgot to add last time while having my pulley around in the engine.... accelerating downhill is very much faster

bro maddie, by leaving the car few hours to u instead of overnight, can settle the pulley creation?