Blue by U

where can I buy this? It's listed on gates web site, but I can't find one to buy?

got2hav1

Try Motion Industries if you have one nearby. They have all the Gates industrial belts.

Blue by U

thanks. Just went to their website. Didn't have in stock, but said available to order. Put in request. We will see....

Blue by U

Any corvette forum vendors sell the RPM belts?

tkr

Hi Walmart thru hawks parts. about $38.00

Blue by U

? Wal-Mart thru hawk parts? They have gates belts, but no listing for this one.

90zcrex

Take that part number to an Oreillys auto and they should be able to order you one. The gates rep was here in one of the threads he said they may take awhile to get though.

Blue by U

thanks. Will try. Got one a few miles from home.

Blue by U

Thanks everyone for all the help. I contacted gates, and they helped out as well. Anyone ever wanting a gates belt can special order at oriellys or Napa. Motion industries can also get them. I ordered from Oriellys just because it was closest.

C5Natie

A&A Corvette had some in stock when I was there two weeks ago.

Blue by U

I ran this rpm belt for almost 200 miles and it broke.car was down over winter and first of spring changing a few things. This was why the belt only saw 200 miles in this amount of time. Will try to post a pic...

CI GS

Hmmn, interested to see what caused it to break. Are you using a spring or manual tensioner?
I’ve had my share of problems with them too. Completely shredded one and ripped a rib off the other (anyone need a 98” 5-rib belt?). I concluded that it was a faulty/misaligned spring tensioner than caused this though.
But these RPM belts have no give. They stretch waay less than a regular Gates belt (I have some under hood video footage), so I’m thinking they are much more unforgiving if there’s misalignment.
BTW: Rockauto, which is a forum vendor, has the RPM belts in stock for far cheaper than O’Reillys. Last time I checked, O'Reillys wanted ~$125 for the one I needed and I got it for ~$52.00 from Rockauto.
I’m giving them one last try, with a new tensioner. If this doesn’t work now, that will most likely be the last RPM belt I buy.

Blue by U

A&A bracket kit with heavy duty spring tensioner. Is not an alignment issue. Broke straight across the whole belt all at once. I think a bad belt. 10 rib on ysi. I was not driving hard. Im breaking in new clutch. I just gave it a little blip rev.

CI GS

Wow. Weird. I can’t even imagine what it would take to break a 10 rib RPM belt.
I have one of the aramid cords from my first shredded belt hanging in my garage with a standing $100 belt to anyone that can break it with their bare hands. So far all it has produced is a bunch of cut hands. One of those belts would be strong enough to tow a car with, I believe.

Unreal

One thing that is rarely discussed is BOVs. How many are you running? On any of the big power setups, you need enough bypass to let all the air out, or you can snap belts, break belts and have all sorts of issues just like this. If you rev and let off, the air back ups in the blower, blower bearings get beat, and the jerking on the wheel/pulley can snap the belt.

CI GS

That certainly makes sense Unreal. It would have to be something violent like that to break one of those belts, IMV.

Blue by U

running one tial bov, but have ran like this for a couple years, even with 8 rib setup. I never hear a shutter on bov which also indicates needing a bigger or multiple bov. Im pretty sure i just got a bad belt.

Blue by U

My bov is a Tial Q, supposed to support up to 1800 hp, which is way above where i am.

Unreal

Not even close, and you probably need to add at least one more.

Limit of a single one is around 800.

Blue by U