Originally Posted by jspaeth

It's good that you are trying to do things right. I did not replace mine, as this involves pulling the front cover in order to get to the crank sprocket, and was too much work for me haha.

Then again, I ended up with a mint SR20, which I paid a lot of money for, so I was fairly confident it hadn't been beaten on and had relatively low mileage.

It depends upon how many miles the motor has on it. Also, take a look at the chain itself and look fro cracks or nicks or bends or things like that.

Clearly, timing chains are way more beefy then belts, so we have that going for us.