vortech belt change
 

anyone do this yet or have an idea of the steps to perform in order to do the change? any help would be great.

I haven't yet but I think @Chris@Phastek changed his belt after some wear at the track.

@Chris@Phastek true story? would you be able to point me in the right direction with regards on how to do the belt change?

probably have to pull the blower.

Just snapped my belt today. I am assuming you have to take off the blower since you had it off when you installed it. Has anyone upgraded the belt to the race version?

How many miles on the belt?

Makes me want to think about stopping by autozone and picking a spare up....

Most of them have it in stock, autozone PN 975K6

4,000 miles on the supercharger

Root cause of failure?

seems like the idler pulley seized causing the belt to snap. Will know tomorrow in the am when it gets taken apart.

No joke this happened to me as well yesterday, belt shredded and my idler pulley on the compressor assembly looks melted in the center and off balanced and the lip is chewed off (4500 miles on my kit to). Bought a new belt and idler pulley at autozone its a 3" dayco pulley part # 89003, I contacted vortech about this today and I was told I needed to send the bad parts to them for them to be looked at and determine the cause first. I'm not going to do that since that will leave my car down for at least a week. When I easily fixed the problem myself for $35 in one day, it would cost like $20 just to ship the damn bad parts out there. Not a big deal but definatley not something I expected from a $5k kit. Pics... And more later of the pulley after I removed it since my phones acting weird
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...psf12bc706.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ps2c69caf4.jpg
Lip of the plastic pulley I found melted off in the bay
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ps9598163f.jpg
Shredded belt
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ps124a3eff.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...psba61e0cf.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...psf0b185af.jpg

I was just doing a video about this.
You have to pull the blower. Fun right?

Anyway in case you guys need to know its the same belt on all the Azera and Genesis 3.8L V6 and Sonata 3.3L.

There are two options:

Gates K060975 OEM belt.
Gates K060975RB racing belt which is stiffer more resistent to stretching and twice the price. (Blue Color)
@tg_1981 please post pics of which pulley and root cause if you can.

my belt was tore up also. very few miles. a lot of the leftover bits were near the center of the blower

I only have a pic of the belt on the ground. The root cause I suspect is the idler pulley since it was the only pulley that was locked up. Once the car cooled down some the idler pulley was able to spin somewhat freely again. Sorry for the size of the picture i used my iphone and was not sure what size to use on the forum.

I posted this in the other thread as an FYI

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ovXSuQ33Ss"]FR-S BRZ Vortech Pulley and Intake Tube Problem - YouTube[/ame]

awesome vid dude!

Has anybody contacted Vortech yet?

See if they can re design this shit and send everyone a replacement

Edit: Just checked mine and same story here

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2c1be056.jpg

http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/...ps27c506a5.jpg

Starting to regret this purchase, should of waited for the Innovate twin screw

Well this is what I found and put in the video, this is the only choice is to run the pipe in a higher position to avoid everything else except the hood insulation. So the question is how long before that downward pressure forces the pipe downwards.

How much is the pipe shifting under the hood when closed?
Like in my case I had clearance sometimes, and then with heat expansion sometimes not.

I dont think we should regret this purchase due to a few issues here and there. We all knew there were risks involved being one of the first with the kits. The reality of doing things first to a completely new car is that we're the ones that are going to find the issues that need to be fixed for the people that buy in the future.

The pipe is bolted to the engine, which moves. This would seem to mean that even if you get it to where it doesn't contact the frame rail sitting still, it probably will when the engine is moving around under acceleration and what not.

If someone local wants to swing by and compare that tube.... maybe its just differences between tube runs that is causing some people to have this problem more so than others

Its also possible it's a variation in the tube manufacturing, some fit better than others.

When it comes down to it there are plenty of potential factors, from install, to alignment, to collar adjustment, temperature etc.

What town you live in?

La Grange Park

It would, but the other point of contact that you have to avoid near the headlight does not. So, if you get it all adjusted properly so that it doesn't touch the pulley, you'll want to make a couple WOT runs and check for contact between that area and the pipe afterwards.

You are an hour from me, we will have to meet up on a Weekend. Maybe next week?

Sounds good, shoot me a PM when the time comes :thumbsup:

Ill be comparing your vortech fitment to mine at the meet next Saturday.

It's been stellar for me on the street
But I tend to drive it like a monkey and call it testing just cause I, collecting data
Fuel delivery is my biggest issue, not the pump side but the physical fuel availability in the bowl or sump
But that aside, back to the belt

When u turn the smaller pullies or run e85 and make more power or run a ebcs the belt and the kit seems to not like two things, lots of power and sudden delivery of power, and loss of power, bouncing off limiter kills belts fastest at 14 psi

I usually deal with it

Pay the piper like one ought to expect to, running it race at all the time in heat

I only have issues with belts trackside, where it often counts most. This alone makes me want to try a turbo, but I know that animal has other beasts of heat to contend with amd I don't like any of the in front of motor turbo designs

Avo was the only vendor who has it down low, it's been eons since I looked at turbo kits, you guys know, correct me, who else makes a turbo that does t heat up my rad, belts or motor .?

Street setup with 3.33 has been 50k miles a belt so I can't complain on her daily driver
My track car I a, running thru belts like they outta style every like ten sessions before, more frequently now. I just sapped to some new pullies lets see if it brings belt life back

Now, what track proven turbo kits are there ?:coolpics: