Ok its nearly 4 am, i can't sleep and i was thinking how cool would it be to have gilmer belt drive on my ke10. Purely for wank factor of course cos its got bugger all chance of slipping a belt. Has anyone done it?. I know u can get kits for a rotary but i wanna know if its possible to get one for a k motor. Even if its a kit with no holes drilled. anyone?(This may be a lost cause :y: )

Rohan Ambrose from extreme rotaries has made most of the AR.com group buy kits.

 

Can ask him, but I reckon you've got buckleys of him making 1 kit....well under like $500 anyway.

 

See if he'd do a group buy on like 20 kits!! :y:

If he'll do it, who would be interested in one?

Id be interested

what about just getting the pullies and getting a belt made seporately...?

 

who actualy makes/sells them cause my old man is after a set...?

Edited July 30, 200719 yr by tas_ae71

 

^^^^^^^Obviously this is what your after?

Just being pedantic but isn't it Gilmour drive ?

 

^^^^^^^Obviously this is what your after?

 

 

yeah thats the shit!. Where did you get that? does it give off the distinctive whine?

And i e-mailed x-treme rotaries and its a big no go.

Just being pedantic but isn't it Gilmour drive ?

 

nup

 

and my gearbox whine sounds a bit like the gilmer whine :y:

Edited July 30, 200719 yr by smacko84

Hey there mate, the only thing was with applying the gilmour drives was that i went the expensive way of it, i shopped around and i couldn't find any place that would sell the pully's individually! so off i went to the wreckers with a tape measure and found the model engines which had the similar pully off-set to the mighty 3k! lol! in the end i bought two sets of gilmour pully's, one set was to suit a holden 202 red motor, and the other set was to suit a g161 motor (holden gemini). also in those sets i bought both gilmour belts. both sets cost me just under $1000 including the two belts. So, off home i went and proceeded to apply! i used the holden 202 water pump pully for the 3k water pump, used the g161 altenator pully for the altenator (nippendenso), i had to lathe up a 2-3mm spacer to slide over the altenator shaft to get the pully off-set i was looking for.........another breath..........., had to also use loctite on the tread as i only had 60% of the origonal length, and finally the crank pully, i used the g161 crank pully, i had to machine the inside diametre hole of the pully about 1mm so it could sit flush on the standard 3k crank pully, also i had to tap 4 new threads on the standard 3k pully so i could bolt the gilmour pully to it, i drilled the 4 new holes 90 degrees to the origonal 3k pattern as the two pully patterns were different to each other, i had to use allen key headed bolts to join the two together, as there is no room for a normal bolt head!

 

hope this helps, just let me know if ive missed something, or your stuck in understanding,

 

and oops, almost forgot, i used the holden 202 belt, perfect length, and yes it does whistle its arse off,

 

cheers, phatke30!

Edited July 30, 200719 yr by phatke30

I was just talkin to one of my mates, he owns a workshop and says he can whip me up a set on his mill. so now all i gotta do is get him a dummy engine and he'll do it. reckons 300 bux tops, so once its done i'll let you all know.

Definatly let us all know, $300 is alot cheaper than what i spent! oh the belt was $50,

 

sorry to the mods and admin for being technical, i know this forum is a non-technical and discussion only!

 

cheers, phatke30!

I worked for a company "if you get perth street car mag that them on the back page" and I made them, polished them and shiped them.

 

they sell a set for less than $300 rrp

 

my 2c

 

chris

Ill be interested.

Pencil me in for 1, maybe 2 @ $300'ish! :n: