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Old 06-05-2014, 01:06 PM   #239
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Originally Posted by Jason@DSG View Post
I agree, but the increased rate of acceleration is directly correlated to the increase in efficiency in the drivetrain by freeing up weight. It's one of those things, we're saying the same thing but in a different way. You actually don't increase any power by doing lightweight drivetrain parts but it increases the rate at which the engine "works" which results in higher performance (on a dyno, this translates to more power because of the way dyno's measure power)
It's really just a bunch of engineers arguing semantics at this point, heh. But saying that running a lightweight pulley nets you HP gain is categorically false, and the real answer is more complicated.

Let's just agree that it helps and leave it at that.

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