I am so happy with how this is turning out. The detail work Brandon is doing is everything I wish I had time to do and his goals with the car are right in line with what I was planning. Now with the car living close to home, i get to visit it and help with it's progress.
I would like to say I've learned my lesson a few times over on not using aftermarket tensioners, but right before we left is when i did the work on the car and I checked the stock one, it was ok, but had some oil showing around the seal, then i got worried due to driving the car cross country, and i had a weekend to finish up the job and wasnt going to be able to get an OEM one before the weekend so i got an aftermarket, I couldnt slow the progress down and miss my window to finish the car, i kept a close eye on it and drove it around for the couple weeks before we moved, there were no issues so we drove it to AZ, still no issues. Of course a week after selling it, issues! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif
I am so thankful that he's only 15 minutes from my house though, Ive done timing jobs so many times that I wanted to offer up the work of replacing it. I wouldve been devastated if this happened to someone half way back across the country. All that said... I'm pretty impressed with my 1.5 hour start to finish running car to running car elapsed time. We should have competitions on doing a T belt on a stock 4G63 (with air). That would be kind of fun for an M.O.D. event.