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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Cool story, but his new car is fugly. Like a GT40 nose tacked onto a Miura. Belt driven axles are interesting, I'm curious how those would hold up under power. Building a car from scratch is typically where these guys fail, it's hard to match the engineering and experience of established automakers.
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belt manufacturers provide all the info necessary to determine load capacity of belt drives. it's pretty simple.
I know this because we use similar cogged belt drives on fans and blowers in my plant (several hundred of em).
I prefer the gates polychain systems.
BUT, cog belts like that don't like dirt. it get embedded into the rubber and acts like an abrasive wearing away at the pulleys.
The wider the belt, the higher the torque, the more that wear gets accellerated.
Having them down there at ground level is going to be hard to keep them clean.
Won't last long.
A belt that wide is expensive, but replacing it fairly frequently won't cost as much as the labor to replace the pulleys.
And what happens when one breaks and the other does not? Right turn Clyde.