It is a belt drive these came about in 71 sox's and martin ran these. so did the ram chargers and the Billy the kid car. Landy built the cross drive off a hilborn fuel pump drive then accell made there's off modified tach drive components. These are the predecessor too modern mag drives in top fuel and funny car combos. and to phase them isn't to bad they are set of static tdc and the crank trigger is the adjustment.