Must have part for Single Turbo

[adi2009]

I ve been told by a vendor from the US that it is highly adviseable to change the stock timing belt tensioner bracket to the PHR timing belt tensioner bracket as the stock ones have been know to fail on many occasions??? Can anyone confirm whether this is true?

 

Also, are there any advantages of using the TRD engine mounts over the stock when running a single turbo setup (T61)

 

Thanks

 

Adi

[rob wild]

hmmm interesting well mines not failed in over 2/3 years of being single plus my new engine rebuild will be using a new OEM tensioner

[SimonB]

Sounds like rubbish to me. Can't think of any reason why an engine with a single would put any more strain on the belt or tensioner than a stock engine. Never heard of anyone having one fail either. A new stock one is going on my new engine

[RobSheffield]

I was also told by a fair few people

 

I think its only really important after x thousand bhp

[SimonB]

I was also told by a fair few people

 

I think its only really important after x thousand bhp

 

Yeah, but why should the amount of horsepower the engine is producing make any difference? It's only a belt going round.

[Paul Whiffin]

Never had one fail ever, never changed one ever, no need.

[Homer]

I don't recall ever hearing of a failure on here.

 

Some of the serious tuners on Supraforums seem to mention it as a required mod, but some of them run massive HP and use them for serious drag racing. The same conditions simply don't apply for a road car.

[SimonB]

Wouldn't surprise me if people that had them fail were running dodgy "lightweight" non-damped crank pulleys - that's far more likely to cause failures I would have thought than simply extra power.

[Jake]

I've had one break : http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=42233

It's not unheard of but not exactly common either.

 

As SimonB says, I can't see why being single would make any odds though.