supernig

I want to get a shorter belt that doesnt spin the Air Conditioning too. Yes i really don't want it. I've heard that this improves performance somewhat and you can actually feel the difference. If anyone knows anything about this please help me out because i honestly don't know a damn thing about it.

Schatten

haven't looked under the hood to see how possible it would be. with a serpentine belt on mustangs, you could bypass the A/C and the smog pump, remove them both for weight savings. with this car, the A/C doesn't pull *that* much when its on. when its off, I doubt the pully which is freewheeling at that moment, is doing anything at all to rob any horsepower. maybe in a full out racing application, you would remove the A/C completely.

IF you were to go about this process, and if it were possible (again, I haven't looked to see), you'd take a piece of string and wrap it around where the pulleys go and then measure the string itself.

Turtle

Spoon do a belt specifically for this. I doubt that this will improve performance much - isn't this normally only done on race spec cars that are saving every last gram of weight as well?

-Brian.

jschmidt

The AC cuts out under full throttle anyway. Virtually all cars do this now. I doubt you'll be able to tell any difference.

BTW, you'll also lose defroster capability and it is almost a certainty that the AC will be ruined by the time you reconnect it. These things need to run for a minute or so weekly (or at least monthly) to lubricate the seals.