[ATaylorRacing]

I had the misfortune of my alternator belt breaking 100 miles from my house a couple of years ago. The belt was ONLY for the alternator. The car was a 98 Neon SOHC that had an underdrive pulley on and none could be found...so I decided I'd hypermile it as far as I could. With 35 miles to go the entire dash died, no speedo, tach, or gauges worked. I barely made it into my drive! Shocked that I made it 100 miles. The next morning I tried to push start it with no luck. I brought out the old stock pulley and belt set up , reinstalled it, charged the battery, and never had a problem again. The underdrive pulley kit made the car get 1.9 better FE, but I traded it a few months later for the SRT4 that I use now. I was impressed with how much more power was freed up without that belt....when the weather gets warmer I will put a alternator kill switch on the Geo and see what kinds of FE gains I can get.