Droped the clutch a BAM! I'd be pissed, but I have 2 extra ones just waiting to go in...

 

Anouther pic..

 

Yeah....same thing happened to my friends FD after having it tuned by XS Engineering.

The rear end just fractured....just like that.

Have you already changed over to an FC tranny? The housings on the FD seem to fracture....need to reinforce it. Especially if you are pumping more than 500hps.

 

Still running an FD Tranny, How are you supposed to reinforce the diff housing, kinda hard to do much welding with cast metal.. Anyone know a way or have any pic's...?

 

Sorry...not the diff housing. It is the diff assy itself that you will need to modify. You will need a stronger ring and pinion. We have not yet tested it.. Keep the 4.10 diff...you can modify it to a 4.3...but you might not like it.....

 

sweet! bet that scared the **** out of ya! hos did you get it to do that with a blown motor?

 

Went to the Auto salon, came back last monday and my parts were here, built the engine tuesday, put it in last wednesday, broke it in last thursday, started tuning in last friday and saturday with the datalogit...

That was a 4.3 final by the way, but it didn't fail, the diff case split from the tork on the power plant frame... kinda pissed about the final gear getting trashed in the process though...

 

By my calculations, it would seem that your differential's modified statistics are somewhat less than optimal.

I would recommend returning to the idea of using a one-piece differential housing for maximum transmission of power to the pavement.


Sorry, i couldn't resist . In all seriousness though, that really sucks. Congrats on getting enuf power to do something like that

Good luck!,
Manolis

 

how you like the new motor? whta kind of numbers ya putting down?

 

I estimate 0 RWHP.

But seriously... OUCH! I'm surprised the axles didn't give way first.

 

Yeah, I've seen that before. The guy who rebuilt my engine did that and shot a 4.3 gear too! He wasn't that happy ... but at least he could say he was putting down some power!

 

the weakest link in the FDs driveline is the stock pumpkin. time for a bulletproof KAAZ unit!

 

Well she's all fixed and better now, with a 3.9 final gear.. The Cusco diff was fine and is happy in it's new diff case... Here are a few more pic's of the aftermath...

Also does anyone know of any way to reenforce the diff case so this doesn't happen again???

 

I think Ari Yallon has done some bracing or something on the outside of the diff for his drag car. I don't have pics, though. Anyone?

-Max

 

She seems pretty happy... opened up the exaust port up anouther 2mm and out anouther 1.5 on each side..

There arn't any good dyno's on Okinawa to check the actual HP #'s

I was going to build a bridge, but I decided against it.. The Base MP's/SP's are starting to get back into **** mode again and I have to drive my car to work every day threw the gate... You'll see when you get here...

Chris

 

take any pics of your engine while it was open and being ported?

 

Nope, didn't even think about it... I was in a hurry to get it on the road again..

How much you got in your pay pal now? Mine should be in there in a few days... I have to use my friends account since I don't have one..

 

what the heck do the base cops do?

 

$1

 

Drag you over to base vehicle reg's and then they give you tickets for what ever isn't Inspection Legal, I've heard of some cars actually getting impounded on the spot... It's just depends on the MP, some of them are pretty cool, some are asses...

 

Yep, having to deal with Marine MP's and Kadena SP's is a beatch....especially when your car is loud and flashy like some of us...thank god that my car's mainly stock right now though...but be forewarned...they're not to nice to us...

 

HEY!!! that's a pic of my right adidas shoe, my gear oil stained pants, and me holding the diff case up...

changing it wasn't as hard as I though...at least this wasn't the first time though...IGY...wink, wink...

 

damn!! those guys sound like dicks? but actually what gives them the right to be inspection qualified? i could maybe understand if they took ya to the lto and had them inspect it but what does some american cop know about japanese regs for inspection? most of them don't even know what a wastegate is!! hmm sounds like i am not going to make to many cop friends up there

 

Nice

 

please excuse my ignorance here, but this is the first i have heard of swaping in an older trany as a plus. what would all the reasonings be? what, if any benifits are there? there must be some benifit if you mentioned it, and i am curious as to what they are. please someone inform me! what fc trany? a turboII?