vs supercharged statesman question.

[fallen1]

i feel like im askin a stupid question... but what happens if i take the belt off the super charger and run it normally.. does the car run properly? =S

[karlos]

i feel like im askin a stupid question... but what happens if i take the belt off the super charger and run it normally.. does the car run properly? =S

Yep,just no boost.

[cander24]

If you're talking about an L67 supercharged 6 then it will run perfectly fine and won't do any damage at all. You just wont get any boost

[fallen1]

wait wait wait... i have a 1999 series 3 v6 supercharged statesman.. if i just take off the belt and run it through the pulleys normaly like a normal v6.. it will run fine and i can just let the super charger sit there.

[fallen1]

what do u mean by no boost?

[cander24]

Exactly! The front serpentine belt on the harmonic balancer only drives the blower. The other pullies here are an idler and a tensioner. So by taking off the blower belt only all your other accessories are still connected and driven off the rear belt. Inlet air charge will still go through the blower, just it wont be forced so you can expect it to perform much like a standard naturally aspirated v6.

[karlos]

what do u mean by no boost?

Your superchatger creates boost and the car go's weeeeeeee,you serious lol?

PSI is another term commonly used if you are,serious that is.

The short answer to your question is yes.

[fallen1]

omfg... that is such a big help... listen to this story... i was told by vic roads i was allowed to drive a supercharged statesman so i went out and bought one i double checked to make sure and they said no.. so i was stuck with this statesman so i thought about taking off the charger but it would cost to much so then i was going to change the motor but that involved to much aswell... i dont wanna sel it cos its a 1 owner under 100,000 km gem.. so i was mega stressing. i just recently thought wait what happens if i run it without the belt on the supercharger... thanks heaps buddy..

[karlos]

omfg... that is such a big help... listen to this story... i was told by vic roads i was allowed to drive a supercharged statesman so i went out and bought one i double checked to make sure and they said no.. so i was stuck with this statesman so i thought about taking off the charger but it would cost to much so then i was going to change the motor but that involved to much aswell... i dont wanna sel it cos its a 1 owner under 100,000 km gem.. so i was mega stressing. i just recently thought wait what happens if i run it without the belt on the supercharger... thanks heaps buddy..

Awesome find that one.Can you get by on power to weight factor?

[cander24]

No worries. Hmm, they still might not let you drive it though. Even though the blower is not connected, technically it's still a supercharged v6. Good luck with it though

[fallen1]

nah i thought so. but they diddnt allow it. i pretty much suffered for their #### up... ohwel... hopefully this works and they dont want the charger completely out..

[Trayner]

Hmm that is a good way to get around it , will it work thou lol . hmmmm

[jokerflingo]

Hmm that is a good way to get around it , will it work thou lol . hmmmm

Doubt it lol, probably similar to buying a turbo car that spools at 3500rpm, so if you said you weren't going to go over 3500rpm you should be allowed to drive it, haha, tell me what they think when you say that.

[YILDI2]

or you can register the car under dads or your mums name, and drive it around no worries, they wont even know its charged unless they pull you over for speeding and check under your bonnet, my mate gets away with it everyday has a wrx under his dads name, he gets pulled over for carrying too many passengers on red p'z cops a fine nothing else

[Decicrate]

You can buy a blanking plate for the M90.

You remove the snout and rotor pack and then fit the blanking plate to the front of the blower.
With no drive or no internals you may get away with it, note, i did say MAY.

[S.T.K.E]

I had to Drive around for a while with the belt off whilst i waited on new rotors. Use's alot of fuel....

[fallen1]

mmm see that was one of the problems i reckon i would of encounted... these road laws are ridiculous i know people who have cars that would drop mine in seconds and they are allowed to drive it on their p's... like a ford au xr6 is like 150 kgs lighter and pushes 164 kw at 5000 rpm... mine pushes 165kw at 5200 rpm