After an awfull track outing 2 weeks ago I screwed up the motor, tranny and my exhaust. I don’t think my worst off of the season helped too much. Slicks don’t seem to give warning when they loose grip :lol:
I have a bunch of plans for her this winter though:
finish repairing what rust there is left
fabricate sidebars for cage
full multi-link (rear and front)
new inner and outer tie rods
Install the aluminum subframe bushings I’ve had collecting dust
out comes the SOHC and in goes the DOHC
lower the car more
new steering wheel
have wheels refinished, they are getting rough
set of new toyo RA-1’s
have a new exhaust fabricated by Ian
sway bars
and I’ve been toying with the idea of dumping money into a Kaaz 1.5, my VLSD is spinning one wheel on corner exits now.
I’ll update with more pictures on the weekend, I cut half of the passenger side rocker.
Picture of all rocker rust cut out. What was a bubble turned into alot of cutting
Couple pics of rest of interior stripped out in preperation for installation of side bars. I’ll be putting the dash back in and fabricating some nice aluminum door skins to finish it off a bit.
Shiming adds more preload to clutchs in a clutch diff if I’m not mistakin. Means it will be more agressive from what I understand. However I don’t really know how our Viscous differentials work and how they could be shimmed.
Tsk tsk… What’s with this whole SON cult of secrecy? Enthalpy released his PFC base tunes for everyone to see and the guy makes his living off that, and you guys are holding on to your diff shimming secrets?
Right on the money… I drove in two different SRs recently… and was unimpressed… the cars just don’t feel fast… compared to some other 240s with suspension upgrades… far more fun going fast in corners than just having mediocre straightline performance… where new stock cars can own you in.
I hope to for next year to have stance coilovers and largus swaybars… and manual conversion, and a nonleaking exhaust… then i will come out to the track. My current setup makes me happy, minus the fact that Im running auto… I dont need more power… I love to hear others invest in suspension work rather than just engine swaps or power upgrades… The swaybars are a priority though… and maybe stitch welding the chassis… The s13 chassis is so damn mushy… that I was thinking of parting out recently and saving up for an FD rx7 or s2000… but then I thought I just rather go all out on my car as is… as it would have been a waste of money of what i already did… unless maybe I did a trade for an FD… (non turbo, unless the turbo chassis in some ways better then I would want the turbo).
What son needs are more threads of people’s wips, journals, track days, etc… it makes the forum alot more fulfilling and fun… my favourite internet forum is ziptied.com… it should be an example for other car forums…
Well winter is here soon… and my car shall be parked beginning 12th of november… all the way until the beginning of spring, with the ocassional startup to keep her from rotting
