Have a desire to attach a carrier to the back of a timing belt and think it would be helpful to remove a tooth from the belt and use the removed area to run a small screw through the belt. Anybody have any experience doing this?
This is the supercharger drive belt on my Chevy II (which has a blown 427 Chevy engine, that’s 7 liters in metric). I managed to take quite a few of the teeth off it, at 130ish MPH one day several years ago at a drag strip in St Louis.
But for your task…you might try flush cut wire cutters.
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I would probably try a tabletop belt sander or disk sander if you have one.
I was trying to think of a safe way to do it.
Another approach would be to ignore the teeth, and just go ahead and drill the hole and screw it on to whatever it is you’re attaching it to.
I know we did something similar in 2012 for our turret, but I’d have to dig for pictures.
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this might be too simple? 
instead of drilling your belt, you could machine 2 plates to clamp it (one flat, one with grooves that fit the belt’s pitch) you can then screw your plates together on each side of the belt. This was an upgrade on our rotative arm from 2016 compared to 2014 when we drilled through (and they broke 2-3 times) We used the same thing to power our stilts for climbing last year, i’ll try to find pics and edit my post
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