There is absolutely nothing wrong with a Gates timing belt.
Gates makes the best timing belts.
I have used Aisin kits every time on the several (near 10) timing belt replacements I have paid for over 25 years of owning Honda V6s, the Aisin parts work great, no issues.
I have the gates kevlar belt. It's great.
Good choice won’t have an issue with it.
That looks like the one I put on mine. you’re always safest going with the oem part (aisin in this case) especially for a kit of this kind.
The belt in the Asin full kit (pulleys, water pump & belt) I installed on my 2000 ej205 earlier this year lined up perfectly.
I’ve always worked on Miata’s, but I’ve never used anything other than gates timing belt and water pumps. Only time I’ve had a gates timing belt fail on me was due to my own fault in which the belt was rubbing on the timing covers until it got caught and ripped a chunk out of it. Even without that chunk it still ran and drove fine while revving the engine 1000rpms past its intended revlimiter.
We put a fresh Gates one in the daughters 1.4MA and it whined like crazy despite the tension being spot on.
I used a Gates belt that the marks were off last fall.
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