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122power said:
Damn didn't know you did all that. Nice car always like the way it looked, clean ride. I think you need more lights.
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I get that a lot it seems like, a lot of the stuff I've done isn't that obvious. I have another set of small ZKW's, don't tempt me :lol:

4-cyl said:
I'm pretty impressed by the gold Sirius wheels. They look quite nice on your black car.
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Yeah I would have repainted them and kept them for winter wheels but I wanted some $$.
 
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So we got the axle in! Put in some Redline oil and a new gasket, replaced the brake junction block and master cly only to find out that I had a leak from a caliper line, DOH. Took the car for a test drive, alternator isn't charging. Nice. I was really about to throw in the towel. Poking around the alternator I randomly found my boost issue I have been chasing for months, a loose wastegate actuator bracket, that was actually really encouraging.

Here's some pictures of the differential carnage. Much worse than I originally thought, I'm surprised it was still driving.

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I thought I just broke one spider gear, I was wrong

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note the planetary gear on the right

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note the ring gear teeth at the bottom and the chunk out of the carrier

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this is the other side of the carrier, it also has a chunk out of it as well as a missing spider gear and chunks out of the other 3. the pinion shaft is completely loose
 
122power said:
How'd you do that?!
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A lot of burnouts I guess? I'm not really sure, what killed it was a fairly mild pull from a dead stop while turning, I only lost traction for 1-2 seconds before it went bang.

I had been hearing some gear whine at cruise for about a year but it came and went sporadically and wasn't very loud, must have been a long time coming .
 
I think this car would be much more enjoyable for you if it had an m46.

Looks great though. Those wheels top it off in my opinion.
 
fortbrick said:
I think this car would be much more enjoyable for you if it had an m46.

Looks great though. Those wheels top it off in my opinion.
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Thanks!

I don't want a m46 unless I can maybe find one that's 100% known good I'd rather not mess with it, the whole overdrive idea puts me off and the AW71 can take a lot more abuse. After what I did to the rear end I can only imagine what I could do to a m46. T5 maybe. My school/work commute is in traffic up hills and downtown so the whole manual thing doesn't really sound all that appealing.

That said I have a decent flat flywheel and a pedal cluster I've been keeping around because I know at some point I'll do a swap.
 
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my thread needs a theme song
 
Dang, you've done a lot of work to your car, nice! How long did it take you to pull your differential? I can imagine a solid axle is easier than IRS. I'm removing my IRS rear end this summer, it's been whining super loud for about 6 months now.



Dat theme song doh. when is the english version coming out? huehuehue
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This guy had swag before it was cool
 
DaBossk said:
Dang, you've done a lot of work to your car, nice! How long did it take you to pull your differential? I can imagine a solid axle is easier than IRS. I'm removing my IRS rear end this summer, it's been whining super loud for about 6 months now.
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Pulling it wasn't that bad, I think we did it in a slow 3-4 hours maybe, took way too long to swap everything over, putting it back on probably the same amount of time plus bleeding brakes and stuff, never got the e-brake stuff hooked back up.
 
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