Anyone know what's needed for me to run a smaller pulley properly? Like a 3.4 pulley maybe? Just wondering since I was looking at pulleys on zzp and I think I found one? Idk any help would b great anyway I read What it recommend I also have for a smaller pulley n it was a pretty sizeable list. So what do y'all think I should upgraded before getting a smaller pulley or should I say what's recommended that u mod first before the pulley?

 

Intake, headers, tune, Autolite 104's, 180 tstat

 

possibly also Rockers.

The BIGGEST part of running the right pulley is the tune. Step down small, tune, get the timing correct and the KR=0 at all points and then you can try a smaller pulley. Repeat until you have the best power without KR.

 

Keep your timing at 16 degrees also

 

i agree that the tune is the biggest part, the stock pulley could be taken quite a ways before a drop is actually NEEDED to make more power, but the whine is alot of the fun. once you get to 25* there's no more power to be had with timing on the pulley size and a drop is needed to make more

but a good plan would be NGK iridium TR6's or TR7's, 180* tstat, headers, and an intake, you'll notice the car gets quite a bit snappier and you can think about a pulley drop, if you decide to pulley down then get the car scanned to make sure there isn't any knock under WOT, then drop to a 3.4-3.6 pulley and get a tune before you stomp it

 

DO NOT EVER COMMAND OVER 20* OF TIMING

For best results, run as much boost as you can on 16*

 

Since I'm at work And on my.phone lol ill just ask a simple question also. I'm not really.looking to build this beast of a car maybe just add a few more HP make it a bit cockier not looking to make a HP machine lolso say I did headers rockers and a cold air intake and maybe a new highfliw cat and a new fownpipe about how much would that even help my HP over the stock.

 

Each modification is a supportive thing to another modification.

If you want to drop a pulley to give yourself more boost, you need to have the engine act differently first. So you mod to add boost.

If you just want to mod without adding boost, your actual gains will be lower, just intake/headers (headers have a new downpipe as part of them)/rockers, won't really give you much horsepower without that tune to take advantage of it.

 

OK I got ya so if I get those and a few other things hen I could do a pulley if I just get those and nothing else I could just get a tune? Sorry kinda slow at this stuff lol I've just done bbasic things like service coil packs exhaust stuff like that before

 

Perhaps you should read this thread: https://montecarloforum.com/forum/he...n-3800s-10942/