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I should be able to drive my car this week!

Full list of modifications is as follows:

Transmission: PPG 1-4 Straight Cut, Synchro gearset. Temporary solution for a problem with my dogbox. RWD.

STi Short-Throw Shift Linkage w/ Kartboy short shifter. REAL short.

TurboXS Front Mount Intercooler, Painted stealth.

Custom Intake

4-1 unequal length headers.

KYB AGX struts, STI Pink Springs

Subframe brace, strut tower braces.

Over the next week:

22mm front, 24mm rear sway bars.

Lots of camber and castor.

Beginning of summer:

Unsprung 6-puck clutch

Doggin

LSD

Possible Guttification

And a bit more to come.

I'm so excited, I have to go to the bathroom!

AWESOME!!!!!!!

Won't RWD hurt the tranny?

If you'll be kickin RWD for a little while, you better do some burnouts w/ pics for us.

Thats something that I've never seen: A 1g legacy roasting the rear tires

RWD won't hurt the tranny at all.

Pics and hopefully video will follow. Tranny will only be in for a week or so, then it's back to AWD and no synchros.

How exactly are you doing the RWD? Are you just disconnecting the front axles, or what?

Sweet!

Ya, vids are deffinatelly gonna need to be posted.

You aren't gonna still be runnin the R160 are ya?

BAC5.2 wrote:Temporary solution for a problem with my dogbox. RWD.

burnout vids plz

Right on Phil! better see some vids tho.

rallitektech wrote:
You aren't gonna still be runnin the R160 are ya?

+1

Its possible to run RWD with a solid piece of metal in place of the center diff. You'd also remove anything related to driving the front wheels, like the inner driven shaft and front diff, I believe. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

Holy crap, Phil . . . now you just need to throw on some wheels with no tires from your other thread and tear-up the road!

Yukonart wrote:Holy crap, Phil . . . now you just need to throw on some wheels with no tires from your other thread and tear-up the road!

on tonights monster garage jesse drove an ice cream truck that had no tire on its left rear drive wheel. in his attempts to get it onto the shop lift the wheel caught fire and dug a long groove into the concrete shop floor and threw sparks like a giant angle grinder.

For RWD, a new guy at the shop gutted a stock center diff. Since you can't just run a splined bar from the output shaft to the transfer gears.

The pinion shaft cannot be removed, because that's what holds the output shaft together.

Since this is an AWD trans, we simply swapped the spool in, and left all of the front-drive stuff in place. Won't cause any damage. Dan, the creator of the diff, ran around like this for a while before blowing up his rear diff.

Front axles will still be connected.

I will still be running the R160. I intend to run the R160 in the future too. Unless something better comes along.

We've had professional race cars running 650whp (and then nitrous on top of that) through a stock R160 with no problems.

With the 3.90 rear diff in the Legacy, my effective final drive in RWD mode with this tranny is 4.29:1. I'm banking on this being a lot of fun!

BAC5.2 wrote:We've had professional race cars running 650whp (and then nitrous on top of that) through a stock R160 with no problems.

is that awd or rwd? because if rwd, that is damn impressive. the R-160 is not what Id call a big diff.

Damn Phil. When is it going to be ready for me to come by and see?

I see a "Burnout of the Month" in SCC for this...

Muahaha, good idea Dave! I DO have a spare set of wheels. I need a line-lock and my dogbox so I can run it through 4th.

The race car is AWD. The rear diff has a Quaife, but stock ring and pinion.

Sam, soon enough grasshopper.

its not as good as a line lock and a little hard on your rear brakes, but you can lightly hold them as you burn out. you are going slow enough that it should stop the car enough to get em started lighting up.
what is this piece to make awd-rwd? this sounds like something I might want to try.

It's a gutted and welded center diff.

are you running the new bushiings for the kartboy?

I'm trying to find someone's old bushing so I can see if the upgrade bushings will fit my xt6 transmission

I made a custom rear bushing a long time ago. WAY before Kartboy released their rear bushing. I'm using a stock STi front bushing for now.

BAC5.2 wrote:It's a gutted and welded center diff.

That's awesome!
+1 for tail-happy action videos.

Aspect had his center diff welded. Cars been running fine for forever.

How much power was he making?

I am definately concerned about blowing up the diff. But I'm also not, because what better way to do it, than in a glorious, smoke filled haze?