Any body used a gear drive before?

**gottabuild1** · 10-20-2007 05:10 AM

Anybody have any experience with those noisy gear drives? any good? what brands?

**R Pope** · 10-20-2007 05:25 AM

I've had lots of "experience" replacing them with chains when they quit working, does that count? You couldn't give me a set.

**Dave Severson** · 10-20-2007 05:46 AM

They create some very nasty harmonics in the engine that will pound valve trains to pieces... I'll take a good double roller chain any day.

**erik erikson** · 10-20-2007 06:07 AM

Originally Posted by gottabuild1

Anybody have any experience with those noisy gear drives? any good? what brands?

OH NO!!
Here we go again on gear drives.

**Henry Rifle** · 10-20-2007 06:36 AM

Advice on gear drives - don't. Really . . . . don't.

**Dave Severson** · 10-20-2007 06:37 AM

Another point a guy brought up at coffee the other day against gear drives, all those nasty old harmonics must also transfer into the distributor and eventually start pounding all those neat little electronic gizmo's apart....Whatcha think????

**gottabuild1** · 10-20-2007 10:25 AM

that is what i was thinking, thanks for the info, would love to go the jessel belt drive route but thats alot of mony

**jerry clayton** · 10-20-2007 11:04 AM

Grumpy Jenkins used to run the nylon/plastic tooth stock chev type stuff

Dampened out the dpark scatter caused by the harmonics

Course he changed them every night

Jerry

**pat mccarthy** · 10-20-2007 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by gottabuild1

that is what i was thinking, thanks for the info, would love to go the jessel belt drive route but thats alot of mony

i hope you was not thinking of one for your 632?

i will not put one on or build any engines with one. like said there great for transfer harmonic thru the valve train can you say busted springs .just buy a good chain set like a rollmaster and call it good .if you want a jessel i maybe have a good used one

**pat mccarthy** · 10-20-2007 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Grumpy Jenkins used to run the nylon/plastic tooth stock chev type stuff

Dampened out the dpark scatter caused by the harmonics

Course he changed them every night

Jerry

yes he did they used a wide tooth one i think ? you can not get them any more less new old stock GM

**pat mccarthy** · 10-20-2007 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by erik erikson

OH NO!!
Here we go again on gear drives.

hey you.. when am i getting the slant 6

i have some 4.500 od sleeves for it. i was thinking run the block dry filler her up to the top of the deck with block rock

**erik erikson** · 10-20-2007 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

hey you.. when am i getting the slant 6

i have some 4.500 od sleeves for it. i was thinking run the block dry filler her up to the top of the deck with block rock

You will get it soon.
I still am doing all the CNC work on the billet alu. head.
Now where did I put those 2.30 intake valves??

**pat mccarthy** · 10-20-2007 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by erik erikson

You will get it soon.
I still am doing all the CNC work on the billet alu. head.
Now where did I put those 2.30 intake valves??

have some nice tit 2.400 big chiefs i will just trim them down to 2.300

may have to re cut the keeper groove no big deal less you want to double stackup the valve springs

**gassersrule_196** · 10-20-2007 05:18 PM

dont buy a gear drive, get a tru dbl roller or belt

**gottabuild1** · 10-21-2007 04:25 AM

What i really want is the jessel front drive, comes with the belt drive and front drive distributor that runs off of the belt drive, also have been looking at a crank trigger ignition, i allready have a 7AL3 box, i think that is what it is if i remember right, and it can be used with the msd crank trigger ignition, anybody ever run a crank trigger? what ahppens with the internals in the distributor?

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