<VV> Gates belt 3V560 VS Dayco Top Cog

[J R Read]

The Dayco top cog has been my preferred belt for over 20 years now.  We did 
an informal - totally unscientific - survey on belts on VV a number of years 
ago.  IIRC, the top cog was top choice by a slim margin.

Later, JR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Durham" <62vair at gmail.com>
To: "Daniel Monasterio" <dmonasterio at hotmail.com>
Cc: "VirtualVairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <air_cooled63 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> Gates belt 3V560


> The belt that seems to work best on my car is the Dayco Top Cog 15560. It
> fits in the groove nicely on all pulleys and runs smoother. I've run two
> different wraped belts, and the gates belt mentioned below, it seemed to 
> be
> a bit stiff, like the wrapped belts. I know its cheaper.
>
> The Top Cog belt is more flexible, and as a result runs truer and vibrates
> less. Its also a bit softer material to grab the pulleys better, and is 
> not
> glazing (making the sides of the belt shiny) from slippage. Its been on 
> for
> several thousand miles, still looks like new.
>
> Mark Durham