Gates Racing Timing Belt for 420a

[inferno617]

I have been searching for an upgrade for my timing belt. I cannot find any by greddy and came accross a company called Gates that makes a timing belt for my car. If any one had expeirence or is currently using this product let me know what you think of it.

 

[xioca]

Upgrade?

 

[romeen]

In general Gates makes very good belts. Are referring to the blue colored Gates Racing belt? I have one (4G63). They appear to be very high quality. All my belts including timing, balance shaft, accessories are Gates.

 

[inferno617]

Yeah, the blue gates racing timing belt is what i was looking at. I plan to have above 400hp and do not want to have to worry about my timing belt being destroyed and damaging the internals.

 

[david-b]

I have a Gates purchased and ready to go on my build in a couple months. Can't tell you anything else besides it looks durable and strong.

 

[Travis96GS-T]

I can't really add anything other than what has been said but I had a Gates timing belt on my last car. I put about 25,000 miles on it before the car was totaled. It seemed like it was good quality and held up well...

 

[inferno617]

You guys helped me out a lot on this abd took away the guess work. Now, do they make better timing pulleys too or just stock?

 

[Mike431635]

Timing pulleys? Not sure what you mean but AFX makes a lightened crank pulley, and you can get cam gears made by many different companies. OBX, AEM, etc.

 

[inferno617]

I'm not sure if they are called pulleys or not but they are two similiar pulleys with bearings in them. Smooth Round Wheel.

 

[Locke]

Idlers; get them from Partsdinosaur.com

 

[NeMiZiS]

Where is a good place to buy a whole timing belt kit with a Gates "racing" belt?

 

[Locke]

Here you go.

VIN 'Y' 2.0 DOHC 420A Timing Belt & Tensioner KIT WITH GATES RACING H/P BELT (cheap too)

 

[NeMiZiS]

Thank you sir!
That is the exact thing I was searching for.Great price too.
Does this replace the stock parts regardless or what kind of tensioner I have?

 

[Locke]

Thank you sir!
That is the exact thing I was searching for.Great price too.
Does this replace the stock parts regardless or what kind of tensioner I have?

Yessir it does.

 

[bullettdsm]

Thank you sir!
That is the exact thing I was searching for.Great price too.

Currently running this exact kit on my NA. Be sure to watch the little video of install he has on his site.

MB

 

[NeMiZiS]

Thanks, I just watched the video and read up on the links posted on the page.
A lot of pictures to help guide too.
Now I checked and they have a water pump for only 34.00 bucks, is that going to be efficient for what I'm doing? Still staying N/A with some bolt on's for now.
The water pump seems almost too cheap.

 

[bullettdsm]

Thanks, I just watched the video and read up on the links posted on the page.
A lot of pictures to help guide too.
Now I checked and they have a water pump for only 34.00 bucks, is that going to be efficient for what I'm doing? Still staying N/A with some bolt on's for now.
The water pump seems almost too cheap.

Lol, I am running his waterpump on the NA (also on the daily 99)..........

I use him for basically all my stock engine parts.

MB

 

[NeMiZiS]

Cool, so as long as everything goes to plan.
I will be ordering this timing kit and water pump when I get my Christmas bonus.
Thanks for the help.

 

[mhDSM09]

I'm running the partsdinosaur.com timing kit with mechanical tensioner conversion on my 98 gs and am very happy with it so far. Seems to make tensioning the tbelt a lot simpler than the hydraulic unit.