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Snapped my cog belt today, just though I would post a pic up. I assume Vortech is where I should order a new one from? Its amazing how quiet my car is now. But I actually like all the hissing lol.
Last edited by 350Z400rwhp; Aug 7, 2008 at 05:51 PM.
It was old and I think the tensioner was too tight, I meant to loosen it weeks ago but I couldn't find a big enough wrench to loosen the nut lol. I was gonna just order a spare but forgot about it. Damn no boosting this weekend! I was driving by some volley ball courts and thought I would show off and punched it and my car backfired and then felt weak, I thought for sure I blew something. I was already doing the math in my head on a new motor lol and noticed the lack of hissing and knew it was the cog belt.
Last edited by 350Z400rwhp; Aug 7, 2008 at 06:07 PM.
I know I know lol My supercharger issues have all been belt related and really all my fault. I started out with way too big of a belt and then tried to tighten my tensioner too tight and stripped the threads so the other belts were never able to be tightened because my tensioner was never working right. The slipping belts caused my supercharger pulley to gum up with rubber which made a squeal / whistle sound under boost which I thought for the longest time was a boost leak. After figuring out I needed to clean the rubber out of my pulley I realized that my tensioner was never working but the belt goes on pretty tight and actually works fine with a clean pulley. Now the cog belt which was looking pretty old (again my fault for not replacing sooner) finally gave out. Of course now I have the right belt and the pulley cleaned out, I just need to go get a tensioner from Nissan and order a new cog belt from Vortech and my problems should be fixed for good but it sure has been a learning experience!
I think the funniest part about the whole cog belt failure today was the fact that my car backfired when it snapped and I thought I blew my motor as it felt way down on power. I was like oh no I'm down one or two cylinders and then I realized no this is just was n/a feels like
you are really lucky it didnt strip out the wires for the cam timing solenoid, short, and burn up your stock ems.
like mine did
I have heard of that and yea I got lucky. I'm thinking about making a shield to protect that. Right now I just have a couple extra layers of loom on that wiring.
Oh Snap!
