 hey guys quick video for you today a video about the racing gates timing belt for Subaru that's the noise in case you're wondering all right so that's the belt right it is the racing T32-8 RB made in Japan timing belt by gates and look what it did to the pulleys there's a good amount of paint on all the smooth pulleys a little bit less on this one quite a bit on this one there's the water pump and there's the smallest pulley so yes that is the paint now I knew this was gonna happen because right after I installed this belt I read something online this guy said that he had it for about 5,000 miles and when the car started running rough which was he figured it was out of time check engine lights for misfire multiple misfire and all he took the timing cover off and voila there was a lot of paint buildup on all the rollers this is something I read and he says it skipped timing it was you know off a tooth at least one this was a year and a half ago this is something that I read so anyway so I knew and this is after I installed it right so I figured out you know I'm gonna check it again after a thousand miles so I did my break in miles and I did one track day and one autocross and you know I knew I was gonna take this apart and just check things out after maybe I don't know 700 miles or so before the track day I actually took this one cover off and I saw a little bit of paint on just this roller right you could see this roller if you just remove this cover pull it out a little bit so I figured yeah I'm for sure gonna be replacing this belt soon so this is a thousand miles maybe a little bit over over a thousand miles and this is what it did I don't know about skipping time maybe you know when it gets a lot of it over here on this belt it starts to wander over here and maybe it may skip I don't know if if it was my guess then it would skip on this pulley over here I'm not sure where it's keeping on the guy or if it did whatever I don't care all I know is that this may cause issues later on if I were to not check for say 20,000 miles 40,000 miles whatever I'm sure this would cause an issue it may even cause the belt to break who knows so there you go so I've been doing some research and apparently these belts the racing belts the racing belts are meant to run a few track days few miles one race and replace them so I wouldn't put them in at all if you're gonna even just track day your car or do autocross and maybe you know daily drive it once a month this is that's my case only my case why replace the timing belt every other track day you know what's the point just get an OEM one and that's what I'm gonna do so yeah so beware of this if you are using a racing gates timing belt beware of this take your timing belt timing covers off check immediately to avoid issues and if you are you know racing your car track day autocross occasional daily just go OEM it's it those are still you know very good belts and that's what I'm gonna I'm gonna do on my case all right that's it for you see you