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Originally Posted by gmsii
HIthere MARTIN82...I am 99% sure YOU ARE A TROLL!!!!!
- you have one post and this is what you talk about?
- doesnt Jackson have a son named Martin? maybe he was born Aug2
- jus sayin
anyways...since you brought this up, let me respond for the sake of transparency and for the benefit of enthusiasts so this pre-production issue doesnt fester and turn into a problem in peoples minds.
first of all...KW would never release a kit that shredded belts...the very implication is asinine and wreaks of troll-desperation.
now to address your observation....yes, we did shred belts at the tuner shootout event. here is why...one of our techs put a NEW PROTOTYPE PRE-PRODUCTION PULLEY FOR THAT EVENT without checking the belt engagement. the drawing we had sent out to our prototype manufacturing partner had two less teeth in the drawing than what was spec'd. so as an example, instead of 38 teeth spec'd, it only had 36 teeth as built...what resulted is the belt only engaged 3 teeth and then would ride on top of the other teeth and consequently that pulley shredded belts in spectacular fashion after about 6 laps at that event. at the event we were puzzled as to why this was happening because the car had hundreds of dyno passes and numerous miles on the street with no issue....furthermore the BRZ uses the same belt drive system as the S2000 kit which never had these types of belt problems in long term durability testing.
since discovering this issue on that track day, we have tossed that prototype pulley in the trash, had a corrected pulley made, installed it, ran it, tested it with no issue at all. in the meantime we were testing other pulley configurations with absolutely no issues at all.
if this post does not adequately address MARTIN82's observation, we welcome enthusiasts to come down and check the system out for themselves...if the car is not on the dyno or apart, we would gladly give you a ride and possibly even let you drive it.
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I'll take you up on that offer.
I'll be at SoWS 11/2, ACS 11/9, WSIR 11/16-17, ACS 11/23-24, and SoWS 11/30-12/1. I'm sure I can squeeze in a few laps in your car on one of those days.