What Are You Doing With Your Spare Time?

I’ve apparently been spending too much of my spare time watching YouTube, because I found this guy. He is exhibiting some of Canada’s finest backcountry engineering by taking an old lawn mower tractor and turning it into… something. It seems like he turned it into a chain driven screw propelled vehicle. Possibly inspired by this bit of […]

Automatic: Your Nerdy Mechanic

automatic driving tracker

Hi my name is James. I am the V Belts Direct web guy (yes I know, all those slow pages and grey checkouts are my fault). I like cars, fixing things myself, and gadgets. Normally when I write one of these blog posts, I only get to focus on one of those things. Today they […]

Would You Buy It: 2003 Porsche Boxter

used cars

We are introducing a new series today. A series that we are calling “Would You Buy It?” The rules are simple: It must be used It can not be salvage title or equivalent It should be under $20,000 or an EXTREMELY good/interesting deal Today’s deal comes from Craigslist and has been a common point of […]

Introducing The Part Cart

shop for belts at the part cart

We at V Belts Direct are automobile enthusiasts. We sell power transmission belts, care about things like efficiency, speed, and power. Translation: we like fast things. If you are a regular customer, you may have noticed that at times our site can be a little slow. Boo. So over the past couple of months we […]

Gates Poly Chain: Among The Best V Belts

Gates Poly Chain

Gates Poly Chain belts are awesome. If you’re like us, you like getting under the hood of equipment and then making it better. Gates Poly Chain timing belts are the top of the line, best-in-class, no doubt about it choice. They are low maintenance (which we love). They don’t require lubrication. They don’t require tensioning. And […]

Snow Blowers Are Awesome

It may seem like cars get a lot of the headlines around here at V-Belts. As the internet’s best and (probably) most beloved seller of all kinds of power transmission belts, we like all kinds of power tools. But there has been one power tool that has been on the hearts and minds of Americans […]