Timing Belt Time, Worth Spending More?

[black_gtst]

time has come to do my timing belt, what i wanna know is it worth spending a bit more and getting a decent one (gates?) or is somthing like a dayco or equivelent ok if car is not making huge power? planning on fitting adj cam gear also if that makes any difference?

cheers all

brett

[tridentt150v]

you get what you pay for, but any brand name belt would be OK, not saying that yum cha specials are no good, but they have no reputation.........

[dangerman4]

i personally would never use a gates belt again.

stick with a genuine nissan belt.

cant go wrong.

[hrd-hr30]

if you aren't running massive revs and heavier valve springs there's no real need for anything other than a standard replacement belt. but do it right and get a kit with pulleys and seals (crank and camshafts) as well - seals are cheap and quick to replace, and tensioner and/or idler pulleys are insurance - if a bearing fails you may as well have not replaced the belt...

[Drift SX]

if you aren't running massive revs and heavier valve springs there's no real need for anything other than a standard replacement belt. but do it right and get a kit with pulleys and seals (crank and camshafts) as well - seals are cheap and quick to replace, and tensioner and/or idler pulleys are insurance - if a bearing fails you may as well have not replaced the belt...

I agree, change everything else while your there if its never been done before

[Simon-S14]

whats wrong with gates belts?

i would personally use nissan or the gates performance belts (only 5 bucks more then the nissan one) never had any belt issues really.

[GeeTR]

i personally would never use a gates belt again.

Cough up with your bad experience!

Apart from them being noisy buggers hah

I'm not sure i would be comfortable with a OEM belt, huge valve seat pressures, steep ramps and 9k rpm though.

[PM-R33]

i personally would never use a gates belt again.

stick with a genuine nissan belt.

cant go wrong.

Yeah i'd like to hear this story aswell since i just bought a gates timing belt kit and fitting it this week

[Sydneykid]

I use Gates belts on RB30's and genuine Nissan on everything else.

Cheers

Gary

[dangerman4]

i found that the fancy blue stuff on the outside of the belt starts delaminating and sticking to the brand new idler and tensioner. this then created a ruff surface for the belt to run on and inturn caused EXESSIVE amounts of noise.

put a nissan belt on and its been whispper quite ever since.

[jackdanielz]

not trying to hijack this thread*

but what about the HKS timing belt compared to genuine nissan?

any comments?

[black_gtst]

if you aren't running massive revs and heavier valve springs there's no real need for anything other than a standard replacement belt. but do it right and get a kit with pulleys and seals (crank and camshafts) as well - seals are cheap and quick to replace, and tensioner and/or idler pulleys are insurance - if a bearing fails you may as well have not replaced the belt...

sweet as, any recomendations on where to purchase all the bits and pieces for reasonable price? also going to do water pump at same time, good idea yeah?

thanks all

bretto

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

its purple

[Duncan]

nothing wrong with the nissan ones that i can see. every gates belt I've used has been noisier than oem, even when tensioned carefully. dangerman4 I've never see the blue come off on the pulleys, and I get to check mine pretty regularly. are you sure nothing got onto the belt?

[dmr]

i use gates racing myself, and they're noisy buggers. apart from that they seem to be high quality and last a long time.

[KLR33]

nothing wrong with the nissan ones that i can see. every gates belt I've used has been noisier than oem, even when tensioned carefully. dangerman4 I've never see the blue come off on the pulleys, and I get to check mine pretty regularly. are you sure nothing got onto the belt?

have uesd both

it was reasonably clean inside the timing cover so dont think ant thing got on it

and did not have any adverse effects

but i have seen the blue come off

[RPMGTR]

i found that the fancy blue stuff on the outside of the belt starts delaminating and sticking to the brand new idler and tensioner. this then created a ruff surface for the belt to run on and inturn caused EXESSIVE amounts of noise.

put a nissan belt on and its been whispper quite ever since.

OEM Nissan FTW. Never ever had a problem with one.

But Aftermarket belts? (Blue ones in particular) well now thats a whole other story.....

Edited May 19, 2008 by RPMGTR

[dangerman4]

have uesd both

it was reasonably clean inside the timing cover so dont think ant thing got on it

and did not have any adverse effects

but i have seen the blue come off

a picture says 1000 words.....

thats the stuff i was talking about. noisy as all hell.

genuine nissan ftw

[PM-R33]

Don't gates however make the OEM belts for nissan?

[180or200]

i found that the fancy blue stuff on the outside of the belt starts delaminating and sticking to the brand new idler and tensioner. this then created a ruff surface for the belt to run on and inturn caused EXESSIVE amounts of noise.

put a nissan belt on and its been whispper quite ever since.

what sort of noise was it?

mine has a bearing noise since i fitted a tomei belt only when idle drops down, sounds similar to a water pump noise but i changed that so thinking its the idler bearing!