would you use a belt drive conversion

[pikeyboy]

Hi everyone, i dont have a mini but i do race a frogeye sprite that has the old faithful A series engine in it so i thought you nice people may be able to offer me some pearls of wisdom.

I've just bought a spare engine for the race car, it's a 1380 with a longman gt15 head and a vernier belt drive conversion. I'm planning on giving it a freshen up and am thinking about getting ditching the belt drive, is this a good idea. Personally I dont lke to think about the top of the engine being joined to the bottom by a piece of elastic at 7500rpm.

also what cam would you guys recomend, i use a BP300 in my other enigne but this is very cammy and peaky, i thought something less hairy might give me better pull out of the slower corners, any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Pikey.

[pikeyboy]

I've been looking at those swift tune cams, most people seem to rave about them.
unfortuneatley mapped ignition systems are prohibited in my class regs.

thanks for the reply.

pikey