Belt drives: was RE: [Diy_efi] RE: Diy_efi digest, Vol 1 #413 - 12 msgs

[Eric Deslauriers]

Martin Christensen's BMW powered Class 10 buggy being run in the SCORE
offroad series (think Baja 1000) originally used belt drive. He had to stop
since so much junk was getting thrown into the belts by the front tires that
they were getting chewed up. I don't remember the mfgr, but Martin's based
out of Escondido, CA if that helps anyone. Good start for a Google search
anyways.

He's running an E30 M3 motor - that's a 4 cylinder motor easily capable of
200+hp.

Don't remember where I read it. Bimmer magazine maybe?

Not saying belts are a bad idea, just not a good one for Baja 1000 style
running. :)

Eric D

> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Patrick Cahill
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
> Subject: [Diy_efi] RE: Diy_efi digest, Vol 1 #413 - 12 msgs
>
>
> I remember seeing something about those belts a couple of years ago in a
> Racecar Engineering article. Someone in the US had built a SportsD racing
> car with a belt drive and a real trick form of CVT. It ran a 1000cc V4 two
> stroke the made about 200HP and they reported no reliability
> problems at all
> with the system.
>
>
> I looked into some Gates products for a similar application, driving the
> wheels
> with something other than a chain they(gates) claimed they had some stuff
> better
> than a chain though I never tested it as the project fell
> through. Might be
> worth a call to them.
>
> Dave
>
> Greg Hermann wrote:
>
> > Agreed with all of the above. Adapting a motorcycle clutch
> would likely be
> > a big improvement.
> >
> >  BTW--Roller chain drives are extremely efficient. (high 90's)
> >
> > Greg
> >
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