The New Race Build......

[SATURNRACER]

what is a FD ? sorry

[Xian]

FD= Final Drive

[Jon2001sc2]

We only wish they made final drive for it, shoot its taken the better part of a year to get enough people together to get a fresh run of Quaife diffs made. Even that is probably the last run that will come out. The lack of parts is whats pushing me to go to an STU build but OB wants a fresh start in ITA so ITA it is (for his car atleast, mine is going to have to go stu as we throw all the remaining spare parts at his)

So what was this about "no don't worry about coming down to help unload it, the car is just going to stay on the trailer for a while"?

[SATURNRACER]

LOL heck you know me i couldn't wait,,,, We need to get this thing going... MEGASQUIRT..... I'm taking all the body panels off Tuesday and stripping all the sound deadening..any easy ideas on that besides jut the old heat gun...

M3 pipe bender might be on the way....Jeff is pumped about it and has his welder fired up already...

Wait a second spare parts thrown at me........

[Jon2001sc2]

LOL heck you know me i couldn't wait,,,, We need to get this thing going... MEGASQUIRT..... I'm taking all the body panels off Tuesday and stripping all the sound deadening..any easy ideas on that besides jut the old heat gun...

M3 pipe bender might be on the way....Jeff is pumped about it and has his welder fired up already...

Wait a second spare parts thrown at me........

Heat gun and scraper, not sure for the rest of the adhesive. A wire wheel could finish off the adhesive residue to prep for repaint if you don't come up with anything else.
Not going to lie I'm a little scared with Ugga excited to weld, need to get our Scottsman back. and for spare parts I have one sway bar left but I think its not going to balance with out a world challenge front bar (that you can't have, yet) there is one header left but I think its going to take me tuning one for our horrible gear spacing to try and solve the lack of power when you loose the power band during the 4-5 shift. Other than that I'm about out of ita parts, a few stu legal parts but even then they are few and far between. Could have new strut housings fabricated soon......

[JLawton]

but I think its going to take me tuning one for our horrible gear spacing to try and solve the lack of power when you loose the power band during the 4-5 shift. ...

What???? ya mean it's not good when you go from 7500 RPMs in 4th to 3000 in 5th??



Yeah, that fifth is a dog!!!

Fortunately we only hit one track where we need fifth so it hasn't been a big deal

[quadzjr]

Could have new strut housings fabricated soon......

Are you doing this yourself? are you modifying the orginal ones?

[Jon2001sc2]

Are you doing this yourself? are you modifying the orginal ones?

from scratch I'm afraid, our old carrera housings only offer perch height adjustment. Basically want to build a new universal housing for the Koni 8610 and 8611 inserts that allows for both perch and pickup height adjustments to allow independent ride height and cornerweight changes. If money was no option then the Koni 2817's would fix everything but we're poor.... so now we get to reinvent the wheel (afordably I hope)

[Xian]

Heat gun and scraper, not sure for the rest of the adhesive. A wire wheel could finish off the adhesive residue to prep for repaint if you don't come up with anything else.

Wire wheel works well for undercoating too...

For interior sound deadening, I hear dry ice on the floorboards, hammer, and chisel also works.

[quadzjr]

Wire wheel works well for undercoating too...

For interior sound deadening, I hear dry ice on the floorboards, hammer, and chisel also works.

be carefull with the chisel.. or atleast when using an air chisel