twice. One was a bad trans seal from a trans that was installed overnight before a roadcourse event. The second fire was caused by me running nearly 20psi because I disconnected the wastegate, and cracked a piston causing excessive crank case pressure pushed the rear cam seal out which promptly pumped all of the engine oil onto hot exhaust (up pipe) after doing a very long burnout.
oops. it ran 12’s and I put over 40K on it since the turbo was put on. It was a good learning expierence. I learned that I hate front wheel drive and that I like boost and big turbo’s.
in the 80K that I have owned the car yes. That is not nicks fault it is a horribly designed transmission though. If it counts for anything each failure was unique. The most recent failure had the most carnage so it gets my vote for favorite transmission failure.
didn’t keep putting in the same thing. Changes were made after each failure which is why I never had the same failure twice. I gave up on the last one and had it rebuilt localy. It is by far the worst trans I have had in this car to date, but it works at low boost so fuck it.
wrong, the replaced part was installed just like oem but instead of tack welding the holes they were drilled thru and bolted. there is no height difference and like already stated it doesnt matter because it only carries the shock which has nothing to do with ride height.
I could be wrong, but judging by the design of that tower, and the configuration of the studs, the way that the shaft comes through, etc… that appears to be a strut- not a shock. In which case, yes, it will affect ride height.
And I have to concur, hack job or not, it will hold. Personally, I would have used body panel adhesive between the two and smoothed everything out. I also would have used buttom head torx machine screws w/washers instead of cap screws, perhaps into nutserts… but whatever floats his boat.