SC Drive Belts

[S600VXR]

Anyone replaced the front and back drive belts for a 122 blower themselves... mine have a few nicks and I don't want to break down so thinking a dropping some fresh ones on....

[john22]

Hi,

Yep the rear belt on mine snapped after just 5000 miles ! no damage done other than the car was low loaded from Yorkshire to Kent for replacement, the cost was covered by network q but took the driver 8 hours !!

[Magic919]

S600VXR said:

Anyone replaced the front and back drive belts for a 122 blower themselves

[tiler]

Yep i all ways a spare in the boot just in case. Only takes a 5 mins to change.
Just give paul at wortec a ring for a spare belt.

[AM04ARO]

Since Santa Pod I now keep a spare belt in my glove box.

Not sure how easy either would be to do yourself, especially the rear one.

[S600VXR]

Cheers for the replies. Will get hold of a spare set next week and have a go over the weekend. Looking forward to seeing how the front tensioner works/feels as I have my doubts over how good it actually works...

[crisisjez]

tiler said:

Yep i all ways a spare in the boot just in case. Only takes a 5 mins to change.
Just give paul at wortec a ring for a spare belt.

The best get you home is a std belt as the supercharger belt needs the top hose undoing.
Car drives fine with the blower disconnected.
Keep a 15mm spanner with for the tensioner.

[Crazy of Cookham]

Mine went at about 8,000 miles was wondering if I should carry a spare

[_AJ_]

Takes 5 mins to change??? I lost about half the material on mine recently, barely hanging on. I was however told that being a belt, it is not covered under warranty, and I would be paying £300+ for the thing to be replaced. Most of this is labour for the removal of the supercharger, which I'm told is necessary for the rear belt!!

Is this wrong? The car is with Pentagon in Burton, as recommended by Wortec.

The car is a VXR500 by the way, so 112 S/C.

Edited by _AJ_ on Tuesday 21st October 15:45

[monkfish1]

_AJ_ said:

Takes 5 mins to change??? I lost about half the material on mine recently, barely hanging on. I was however told that being a belt, it is not covered under warranty, and I would be paying £300+ for the thing to be replaced. Most of this is labour for the removal of the supercharger, which I'm told is necessary for the rear belt!!

Is this wrong? The car is with Pentagon in Burton, as recommended by Wortec.

The car is a VXR500 by the way, so 112 S/C.

Edited by _AJ_ on Tuesday 21st October 15:45

Front belt, 5 mins, rear belt blower off, about 1.5 to 2 hours work.

[_AJ_]

D'oh, thank you for that.

Anyone else of the opinion that maybe these belts aren't really fit for purpose? Is anything stronger available?

[crisisjez]

_AJ_ said:

D'oh, thank you for that.

Anyone else of the opinion that maybe these belts aren't really fit for purpose? Is anything stronger available?

Monkfish do a nice custom 8 rib set up.

[monkfish1]

crisisjez said:

_AJ_ said:

D'oh, thank you for that.

Anyone else of the opinion that maybe these belts aren't really fit for purpose? Is anything stronger available?

Monkfish do a nice custom 8 rib set up.

For the front. Its the back belt thats the problem on this occasion. But the 8 rib is nice!

I wouldn't say the rear belt isn't up to it. A lot of superchargers out there and very few failures. We have only ever done 2. Belts do a lot of work and won't last forever.