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did just getting the car home. And then I drove to FL, by the time I got there, I could not give any gas without the belt slipping. I am not blaming anyone. But I think the more horsepower you put down, the harder it is for the belt to hold to the underdrive crank pulley. If you just look at the finish on a stock crank pulley compared to one of those aftermarket red or blue underdrive crank pulleys, that leads me to believe like what they used to say about selling tires down south, "Tires ain't pretty!" Underdrive crank pulley don't need to be pretty, and the finish is very slick. No big deal, I'm only getting a little slippage under WOT now, if anything my belts are a skosh on the tight side. But any slippage probably increases the chance of a belt jumping, I've had that happen already at my power steering pump. Now that I think about, I have adjusted the belts three times, after initial break-in, replaced alternator, after power steering belt jumped. I'm a shade-tree mechanic at best but I know how to adjust belts.
 "Straight-line acceleration is probably the first aspect of
automotive performance that any intelligent driver gets bored with."
Peter Gregg "We owe a lot to the dragsters.
They always break something,
figure out a way to beef up the part
and then the benefit trickles
down."
Robo "Not everything that can be counted counts. Not everything that
counts can be counted."
Einstein
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