amen!!!

Even though the spinning sprockets look neat, I can attest to the fact that if you run bare with no front cover long enough the sprockets will gradually erode their sharp corners that retain belt teeth. The dust and dirt do it, like throwing sand in the belt path. Cam belts and sprockets don't like that. And when I did it I was always thinking, what if some day going say on gravel drive and you spit up a small amount of rock into the crank pulley? You could easily be walking home in a few seconds. I had impact cuts inside my belt after removing it after no cover running for a while. The sprockets had to be replaced, they SHOULD last forever with a cover over them. Then there's always the crank snout seal, they don't live half as long when exposed to lots of dirt.

I ran with no cover for a solid two years or so, but not wise. The belt erodes quite a bit more. Of course, the flip-flop is that I could change a belt with no cover like that in maybe five minutes, LOL.

well this weekend i decided I was going to build a custom hood scoop. This is a ram air hood that has baffles inside of it to direct air to the right side into the carb. The left side leads to the back like a cal hood to vent engine bay heat.  As I get the air box done ill post those pics.

New T5 trans goes in this weekend.. Anybody know what year and make / model vehicle I can get an Aluminum drive shaft out of that will fit the T5 and a ranger rear axle. I have been kind of eye balling the aerostars. Any thoughts?