Hehe.... rebuilt my spare gearbox this evening out at dad's shop ( :thumbup: for dad) with some goodies

First you find yourself a spare gearbox in need of a rebuild - this one had some 3rd gear "issues" or so the seller said. Perfect.

Transmission rebuild hobby kit (name that movie reference). 3/4 synchro set, new bearings and seals.



My LSD... it started out as a GSR diff, then I sent it to OPM Autosports in atlanta to have it build into a LSD. The metal blocks in there house clutch packs.... YOu're probably thinking "why not just get a Phantom Grip". Well those things suck and put all the wear on the spider gears, and dont even work that well in the first place. This setup is actually properly designed and has real clutch packs. More on that one later.....





Hmm... and whats this too....



Bling!!!!



Neither of us could read "JDM". I just assumed it meant "Use BFH here"



Ah, the gaijin version. We didnt read that one either. BFH here I come!



Final drive comes with a ring gear, a countershaft to match it (thats your pinion) and a different 1st gear - I think something to do with clerances, as 1st is right on top of the countershaft/ring gear mesh. Pics for reference (not mine)





Ok, now on to the fun.......

This thing is entirely too put together. Fuck all that.



This is much better



Countershaft on the left, input shaft on the right, shift linkage (sorry... honda term is "change holder" on there. Once you unbolt the shift linkage from the housing everything just pulls out.

Pic for reference (not mine)



New ring gear on the diff (this was our snag of the night)



From there it was just a matter of pulling everything off the input shaft and swapping out the 3/4 sychro set and ATS 1st gear... and pulling everything off the countershaft to put on the ATS countershaft. I was suprised how little was pressed on - only needed a press for one spot on each shaft, everything else just slides right on. Pretty easy stuff, as long as you stay organized and put things back on in the right order/orientation as they came off.

Dad pressing bearings back on the countershaft





Assembled



We dont need no ffing torque specs!



And then it went back together the reverse of assembly.... slide the change holder assembly back on the shafts and drop it in the case. Bolt case down, give a little love to the snap ring and you're disco.

The offending 3rd gear synchro hub - the brass synchro rings were fine, but the hub on this was all fuggered. Oh well.









I do have a problem with the diff though and I will be calling OPM in the morning - one of the bolt holes that holds the ring gear to the diff is chewed up and I couldnt put the bolt in. The problem is that its a left hand, very fine thread - 10x1.0 mm - Mcmaster-carr has taps in that size, at $80 each..... I'll be pulling the case apart to do something with the diff I guess. Maybe stuff it with flaming poop and launch it through OPM's front door.

So, thats that... for now.

Nobody likes crashes when they happen, but they are fun to watch later.

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Enjoy.

The Eagle has landed!

Got into Oaktown (from Oakland to Sactown, the bay area and back down...) at about 9:45 am. Took a little over an hour to drive down to the Holiday Inn in Morgan Hill which is about 45 min to 1 hr from the track. Weather is pretty mild out here, more like spring time weather. I'm already seeing sport bikes passing by on the highway packed up with gear for the event (respol 1000RR just passed by ).

I'm going to drive down to Monterey now to check out the town before the crush comes on. I'll try to post some photos every night.

-G

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neat stuff!

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Posted Date: 7/7/05
The BAR-Honda team will run one of its Formula One cars at the Bonneville Salt Flats. ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs a [sponsor] Lucky Strike idea,ÔÇØ team principal Nick Fry told AutoWeek. ÔÇ£ItÔÇÖs not a hugely modified car; itÔÇÖll be in standard F1 form but will have to be modified for safety. ItÔÇÖs got to have a parachute on the back, for example.ÔÇØ

Fry said BAR and Lucky Strike officials want to see just how fast an F1 car can go in a straight line. ÔÇ£It has to be to FIA specification, otherwise it becomes a what-is-it-type of project,ÔÇØ Fry said. ÔÇ£We didnÔÇÖt want to increase the size of the engine, or anything like that. We thought weÔÇÖd keep it relatively pure.ÔÇØ

Fry said aerodynamically the car will be ÔÇ£absolutely trimmed out. It will have minimum wing, and a lot of the aero bits required to make it go round corners clearly arenÔÇÖt necessary. Having said that, itÔÇÖs obviously got to be safe, and stay on the ground. At Monza, an F1 car does approximately 220 mph. We think that, at Bonneville, it should be able to exceed 250 mph, so thatÔÇÖs the rough target.ÔÇØ

Fry said one of the BAR junior drivers will run the car. ÔÇ£WeÔÇÖve got Adam Carroll, James Rossiter, and so on. WeÔÇÖre looking at doing this in October, and the plan is to have someone from the FIA there.ÔÇØ

this racing video is hilarious

right clicky save ass

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Not mine, no affiliation, could be a good deal....

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"1996 VW Golf GTI 2.0 8V Posted: Jul, 06 2005"

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Speaks for itself.

Here's what the cylinder's threw at me:

the first test was about 4 turns, the next one was about 8-10 turns

1 - 215, 220
2 - 210, 220
3 - 160, 190
4 - 225, 230

The third cylinder threw significantly lower than the rest, but what do you think of the numbers? The spark plugs looked clean to me, no discoloration of white or black, but here's why i performed the test.

Other than my previous problem of losing oil, i recently took a cross country trip and i burned 10...yes 10 quarts of oil. (more on this later, i'm planning on starting a thread once i get the pictures organized, and i'm a lazy ass) Could the problem be the valve retainers? The next thing on the agenda is a leak down test.

Some of the specs on the car include: Tuned maintenance, slacking with the later regular maintenance things, using Mobile 1 5w-30 (thinking of switching to something thicker), and there is 144300 (about) miles on the car. Stock everything internally. There is also a black film of crap on the trunk above the exhaust tip.

it may be the same one from last week....but yeah...it's going to be on nonetheless.

JF1GC2246RG531716

its the impreza, just got the vin to insure it, figured id ask on here to make sure everythings copasetic (sp) before i leave for DC.

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Thanks!