The Money Pit!

**mrjaydeeone** · 07-17-2011, 09:57 AM

nice work Bryant

**Isaurio** · 07-17-2011, 10:58 AM

Very nice.

**Galantman03** · 09-18-2011, 03:30 PM

BUMP! I'm am curious if anything has been done to the g lately?

**Stewi** · 09-19-2011, 09:54 PM

stay tuned....

**Isaurio** · 09-19-2011, 09:56 PM

Lol

**underated** · 09-20-2011, 12:52 AM

sometimes i wish i lived in NY you guys are doing awesome things out there.

**xd_01** · 09-20-2011, 06:33 PM

Sorry ive been slacking on the updates but i ran into a problem 4 weeks back with the Quaife diff.

Long story...
Basically the axle wasnt locking in which causes all the gear oil to leak out, its actually the 2nd time it happened with this diff and i had it sent out for repair way back in in 08' the first time.

Now 3 years later i go to fill the trans with gear oil and now the opposite side of the diff doesnt lock in,, F#$%&@#KKKK!!! the dumb
mutha- efers at "Autotech" the company that imported and did warranty work for Quaife UK screwed up and now 3 years later they no longer deal with Quaife UK and put out their own diff, "Wavetrac". So now im stuck with this diff and i have to track down who does the warranty work, which i did, but it all consumes soo much time and money (aka the money pit lol) now i have to pay some one AGAIN to open up the trans un-install the diff send it out and yadda, yadda, yadda, you get the picture lol. I mean it took me about the weeks to fix a power steering leak because i live 5 hours away from the damn car is, not to metion what its cost in fuel commuting all these years.

The funny part is even though Autotech screwed up the repair on the Quaife i went ahead bought a Wavetrac the same week (mo-money) to avoid losing anymore time. Ohwell the Wavetrac is in, axles lock and tranny is back in. Now all thats left is polishing up the tune, motor, and clutch break-in which i plan to start this weekend.

i got a short video clip of the car running the day i dropped the trans out. ill upload to tonight.

**xd_01** · 09-20-2011, 07:18 PM

short video, not that exciting but here it is anyhow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5SJy0uAWwo

**wetamup2k3g** · 09-20-2011, 07:24 PM

Nice!

**xd_01** · 09-20-2011, 07:39 PM

Lazy mans bumper

yes its a hinge clip

**Stewi** · 09-20-2011, 08:24 PM

LOL. Like I said last time. The first chance your not looking, im taking that bumper.

**XxGiRLaNT06xX** · 09-20-2011, 08:31 PM

LOL! Nice vid!

**xd_01** · 09-20-2011, 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Stewi

LOL. Like I said last time. The first chance your not looking, im taking that bumper.

thats ok ill just take a ride to Crazy Rays pick & pull get another one for 20 bucks LOL!

Thanks Ally

**2002BlackDragon** · 09-20-2011, 11:17 PM

sweet video

**underated** · 09-20-2011, 11:22 PM

love the stock radio... i just got rid of mine about a month ago. i got tired of making cd's lol

**xd_01** · 11-20-2011, 12:18 PM

So here's a lil update, i was having an issue with the motor stalling while pressing in the
clutch to get in and out of gear and i thought i had it figured out when i installed a check valve on the brake booster vacuum port thinking i had a vacuum leak but it only hid the real problem. Well i only put a total of 40 miles on the motor and the stalling was still there but not as frequent, was really weird actully.

so eventually the worst that could happen did, the motor locked up! the pan was pulled and the bottom end inspected, turns out the machinist forgot to install a thrust washer so the crank was against the main girdle creating all that extra load which was causing the stalling when the clutch fork would put pressure on the rotating assembly. two tuners i was dealing with suspected the thrust washer,, but missing ,,, damn!

its really fustrating and disappointing when a machinist you trust does something like this but im working on getting the issue resolved. the motor is out and partialy disassembled at this point, new crank is here thanks to Stewi going way out of his way to pick up a spare motor from my parents driveway and take it back to his in-laws to pull the crank out and mail to me lol ,,, Thanks again Bro!

the motor is brand new so the pistons and rods should still be good and the same for the valvetrain and judging by how much metal shavings came out the motor is most likely salvagable just needs a good cleaning, same for the turbo.

so hopefully it will be back and running just in time for the new HPDE season in Feb.