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I just got my new fully forged bottom end running yesterday and the car sounds like it has a supercharger on it and you can hear this really high pitched whine comming from the engine.

The engine runs fine appart from running around 10 - 15deg higher then normal.

Anyone got anyideas why it would make the sound and why would it run hotter? the gauge in the dash reads normal readings its just the PFC that is saying it sitting on 101deg/c

If you have done a new timming belt it could be that, mine did the same and it turns out it was to tight and we just backed it of a little and the noise went away, and some belts are noiser than others.

Yep. Gates NEO

I haven't personally used a gates belt, but they have a bit of a rep for being quite noisy. I have heard a few cars with them, and yes they were noisy. It's quite possible though that it is just not being tensioned properly. were the tensioner and idler bearings replaced or checked?

get a long screw driver and carefully put it on the water pump housing, or the alternator or the powersteer pump, with your ear on the other end, if they all sound normal then your belt or tensioners may be noisy

cheers

Jeremy

gates timing belts are crap. Do not use them...

I installed one with the new idler/tensioner bearing's.

after about a week i had this really weird noise at idle coming from the front end.

after 6 months it was getting really annoying so i

did the screw driver trick, and the most noise was coming from the cas.

chucked a spare cas on and no change, so i removed the timing cover and instead of the blue gates belt i found a black gates belt. i was puzzled by this so i stripped the balancer, lower cover, etc off and found all the blue crap from the belt was now coating my new idler and tensioner pulley.

the coating that they put on the outside of there belts is useless.

removed both pulleys and hit them with the wire wheel on the cordless, and came up good as new.

replaced with a genuine nissan belt and havent heard a single noise since.

So the moral of the story is,

stick with genuine.

Cheers

i use a gates belt on my car, never once has been noisey. prob overtensioned as the others have said. p.s the blue does flake off my i doubt that was the noice, id say you overtensioned your belt also causing the belt to overstretch and strip the blue *gates* off.

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