Timing belt DAYCO or Gates

i have a blue gates belt on my m20, its a good belt

We use Gates belts in the commercial space, they're good quality.

been on my car for a few years with no complaints.

The previous Gates belt looked completely fine, and probably could have lasted another 10 years.

I have always had good luck with gates belts and they have always looked good when I replaced them too. 70-80k belts looking almost new.

I have had good luck with them for years.

I've been using a Gates belt on my weekend toy for the past 5,000 hard, abusive miles with no catastrophic failure. I did have their water pump fail internally in under 1,000 miles. Replaced with Subaru OEM.

The common complaint of gates timing belts is that they're loud.

One this I did notice. Your belt is a gates t240, when I bought my truck the previous owner had that belt, and I found issues with it. The proper belt for mine is a gates T154. 154 being for 92 and earlier and 240 for 93 and up.

We put a fresh Gates one in the daughters 1.4MA and it whined like crazy despite the tension being spot on.