First off we are talking about a 1.6L engine right?
Did you check the #s on the belt to match it to your application?
Did you get a belt for a Samurai? did you remove the washer behind
the cog on the crank?

I would have to say you either got the wrong belt, or you have
removed a part that is needed to keep the belt aligned with the
timing cogs

Wild

I don't think it is possible to put either a samurai or a trackick 8V belt on a 16V....they are both shorter.

I contacted Gates and the 'nice' short response I got after asking for a high performance timing belt, was:

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Joshua,
         We do not make an upgraded TB for your application.

John Foy
Marketing Development Manager

I'd like a 'racing' timing belt just for some extra 'insurance'. A factory replacement timing belt from Gates (purchased on ebay if that matters but came in gates box and sealed, etc) already killed itself after a 20 min run on the highway. The rubber literally melted out of the belt leaving mainly just fibers all over the inside of my engine bay and left me on the side of the road. All was fine for 3-4k miles leading up to this but that was all back roads/4.30 gears. Took a crap soon after I put the 5.125 gears in.

Why not just get a factory suzuki belt?  The original one lasted 110K miles.  Probably not a better quality one out there.

I don't think it is possible to put either a samurai or a trackick 8V belt on a 16V....they are both shorter.

I totally forgot about the height of the engines,  

Wild