Reaching out to all you M20 guys whether your stock, Stroked NA or Forced Induction setups. I have been in touch with a representative from Gates regarding them manufacturing a Gates Racing Belt for the M20B25 and B27 engines and guess what? They said they would do it, and I mean why not they already make these for Audi/VW, Honda and Acuras and Lexus Toyotas why not the ONLY BMW with a Timing Belt LOL
Anyways just gauging interest in the M20 community as to how many of you would be interested in this Belt? I'm not selling these myself, but I did respond to the Reps email regarding whether or not there could be some sort of Group Buy if Possibly if there was enough interest.
The Rep wanted to know suppliers I normally purchased parts from so I can them a short liust of places below.
Some of which already carry Gates Belts and Gates Racing Belts. So if you guys order parts from a particular place that normally carry just the Contitech Timing Belt PM me or type in the link here and I can forward a list of other suppliers that way Gates can get in talks with them about carrying the Gate Racing Product Line of the M20 Racing Belt.
If you guys want to start a list of guys interested that would be awesome. I will be forwarding the link of this thread to the Gates Rep as well I already made in well aware of the 2 main e30 websites R3v and E30tech.
This is from the email the Gates Rep sent to me:
"Sounds like you want a racing version of the standard T131.
I can do this for you, sir. What’s more I’d love to do this for you because fast BMWs are friggin’ sweet. It will take a little time though just because we have to develop the belt specs, schedule production, get the cataloging ready, packaging, etc. All the usual stuff that happens when we launch a new product.
If I can’t have it by September, then it will 4th quarter sometime this year. I know that isn’t ideal, but hopefully you can bear with us.
Can you tell me where you’d normally buy our products from, so that I can be sure we tell the distributor to get some of these belts in stock when they are ready? Typically Motovicity and Turn 14 support all of our performance products very well so they would be great sources to buy the products when they are ready if you don’t have a source already lined up.
Do you mind if I email you again when the belt is ready, and will you help me out by telling the guys on your forum that we are on this? In exchange, we will make a dynamite belt for you.
Also if you guys have some sweet engine shots or other pics of your cars, let me know. We can get them featured on the gatesracing.com website.
Finally, if there is another product that Gates can make for you, let us know. We want to support the community wherever possible, we’ve just been bad in the past about knowing how to reach out to you guys.
Thanks a lot for your time. Feel free to get in touch with any concerns."
So if any of you guys have some nice engine shots as well feel free to contact them to get featured.
Thanks Guys I've had the idea of contacting Gates for sometime now regarding a Racing Belt and was actually really surprised I received a positive response
Jared
Anyways just gauging interest in the M20 community as to how many of you would be interested in this Belt? I'm not selling these myself, but I did respond to the Reps email regarding whether or not there could be some sort of Group Buy if Possibly if there was enough interest.
The Rep wanted to know suppliers I normally purchased parts from so I can them a short liust of places below.
Some of which already carry Gates Belts and Gates Racing Belts. So if you guys order parts from a particular place that normally carry just the Contitech Timing Belt PM me or type in the link here and I can forward a list of other suppliers that way Gates can get in talks with them about carrying the Gate Racing Product Line of the M20 Racing Belt.
If you guys want to start a list of guys interested that would be awesome. I will be forwarding the link of this thread to the Gates Rep as well I already made in well aware of the 2 main e30 websites R3v and E30tech.
This is from the email the Gates Rep sent to me:
"Sounds like you want a racing version of the standard T131.
I can do this for you, sir. What’s more I’d love to do this for you because fast BMWs are friggin’ sweet. It will take a little time though just because we have to develop the belt specs, schedule production, get the cataloging ready, packaging, etc. All the usual stuff that happens when we launch a new product.
If I can’t have it by September, then it will 4th quarter sometime this year. I know that isn’t ideal, but hopefully you can bear with us.
Can you tell me where you’d normally buy our products from, so that I can be sure we tell the distributor to get some of these belts in stock when they are ready? Typically Motovicity and Turn 14 support all of our performance products very well so they would be great sources to buy the products when they are ready if you don’t have a source already lined up.
Do you mind if I email you again when the belt is ready, and will you help me out by telling the guys on your forum that we are on this? In exchange, we will make a dynamite belt for you.
Also if you guys have some sweet engine shots or other pics of your cars, let me know. We can get them featured on the gatesracing.com website.
Finally, if there is another product that Gates can make for you, let us know. We want to support the community wherever possible, we’ve just been bad in the past about knowing how to reach out to you guys.
Thanks a lot for your time. Feel free to get in touch with any concerns."
So if any of you guys have some nice engine shots as well feel free to contact them to get featured.
Thanks Guys I've had the idea of contacting Gates for sometime now regarding a Racing Belt and was actually really surprised I received a positive response
Jared
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