Is FINALLY FINISHED!!
For anyone that has wondered.. "why drifting" or "what the heck is that..." this video couldn't explain it any better. Mad love guys, nice job!
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
SD-Drift Thunderdome Event 04/29/2012
Last weekend we held the first SD-Drift event of the year out in Sturgis, SD, it was an absolute blast! Cool dudes and nothing but tandem practice and drifting all day long makes a rad time. Here's some media from the events. All pictures in this update come via FOTOmotive, check em out here!
http://www.facebook.com/FOTOmotive
http://fotomotive.photoshelter.com/
For the full set from the day: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.372959016083805.82180.192098390836536&type=1
Now on to the video and pics! Driving was pretty sloppy, as to be expected after not driving for several months.
First and foremost....
PICTURES
In love with this picture.
Lookin ridiculous
LOL, got too close in tandem.
Tandem!
http://www.facebook.com/FOTOmotive
http://fotomotive.photoshelter.com/
For the full set from the day: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.372959016083805.82180.192098390836536&type=1
Now on to the video and pics! Driving was pretty sloppy, as to be expected after not driving for several months.
First and foremost....
PICTURES
In love with this picture.
Lookin ridiculous
Brothers gotta hug!
LOL, got too close in tandem.
Tandem!
Yeah!
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Subframe Spacers in, Pilot bearing machined and complete!
Made some progress lately! I have completed the subframe risers and have them installed in the car. I have also completed the new flywheel spacer and pilot bearing design. Below shows pictures of the progress.
Subframe Risers
Got the subframe risers CNC'd by Ryan in the machine shop at school for one of my Cad/Cam projects, they turned out great and well within my requested tolerance ranges.
During installation I froze them in a bucket of dry ice to gain some clearance as the holes in the subframe are really more of ovals. These were designed around making a press-fit of about 2 to three thousands, however, seeing as how the holes were a bit more ovular they did not go in as easy as i was hoping. I used some dry ice to help this out and a large bolt and electric impact. Once frozen, they went in very nicely using the nut and bolt to press it in.
And installed! This took a bit of "convincing" and grease on the studs to help slide them in the holes as everything had to be lined up just right. One it was lined up it went in very nicely though, I can't wait to see the difference!
Pilot Bearing
Shown below is my new, and hopefully final, redesign of the pilot bearing in the flywheel spacer. As I mentioned before I do not think it was the bearings fault it wore out prematurely due to the pressure plate being siezed, however, I figured I might as well improve the bearing while I've got everything torn apart. This utilizes an NSK J-106 bearing which is a factory NISMO bearing, cool stuff!
And the finished project. Hopefully it'll work!
Also some other random updates.
Got the car all clean and degreased, it looks MUCH better.
Decided to foil the transmission tunnel, fuel lins, and along the frame rails where the headers run. Maybe my feet will stay a bit cooler now!
Subframe Risers
Got the subframe risers CNC'd by Ryan in the machine shop at school for one of my Cad/Cam projects, they turned out great and well within my requested tolerance ranges.
During installation I froze them in a bucket of dry ice to gain some clearance as the holes in the subframe are really more of ovals. These were designed around making a press-fit of about 2 to three thousands, however, seeing as how the holes were a bit more ovular they did not go in as easy as i was hoping. I used some dry ice to help this out and a large bolt and electric impact. Once frozen, they went in very nicely using the nut and bolt to press it in.
And installed! This took a bit of "convincing" and grease on the studs to help slide them in the holes as everything had to be lined up just right. One it was lined up it went in very nicely though, I can't wait to see the difference!
Pilot Bearing
Shown below is my new, and hopefully final, redesign of the pilot bearing in the flywheel spacer. As I mentioned before I do not think it was the bearings fault it wore out prematurely due to the pressure plate being siezed, however, I figured I might as well improve the bearing while I've got everything torn apart. This utilizes an NSK J-106 bearing which is a factory NISMO bearing, cool stuff!
And the finished project. Hopefully it'll work!
Also some other random updates.
Got the car all clean and degreased, it looks MUCH better.
Decided to foil the transmission tunnel, fuel lins, and along the frame rails where the headers run. Maybe my feet will stay a bit cooler now!
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
More clutch issues, Subframe Spacers, Wheels
What a surprise right?....This is getting really annoying. Below is my whole thought process through this, some of it is more for my own understanding later down the road, but I'm open to ideas.
The situation:
The clutch had been making some excessive noise this past summer and occasionally a strange feeling pedal so I told my self I'd tear it apart and check out whats going on. I wanted to see how my new pilot bearing was doing and was expecting to find a bad throw-out bearing due to the strange clutch feel and noise...boy was I wrong! For starters, the pressure plate had bent teeth (see picture below). So I took this off and inspected the clutch disc and pilot bearing, the disc looked like it was about to strip out AGAIN and the pilot bearing was nearly completely trashed.
Alright, my first thought is something isn't aligned properly as it should NOT be doing this. Looking deeper into the problem I noticed that the pressure plate teeth weren't bent but that the pressure plate friction surface was crooked inside the housing. I was able to hit the friction surface a couple times and it straightened out which in turn corrected the teeth. When I inspected the flywheel it appeared to have a little hot spot where the friction disk was closest to the flywheel.
My conclusion to this whole problem is now pointing entirely to a defective/bad pressure plate. I'm surprised to say this as I've always heard ACT was a very good brand. Due to the somewhat seized pressure plate, it was creating an unequal amount of force on the clutch disk, more so on the one side, which normally would have an equal and opposite friction force on the full face of the disk. However, due to the uneven clamping load there was a smaller friction force on the opposing side of the clutch disk. This caused the input shaft to be pressed against the pilot bearing, wearing it much more than it normally would. As it wore the input shaft would be forced off-axis and cause added friction between the input shaft and clutch splines.
This huge chain reaction almost brought me to strip out ANOTHER clutch disk and input shaft. So glad I caught it before it ruined another transmission. Reason's I do not suspect alignment issues as much are simply due to the fact that everything lines up very nicely when assembled, and more so due to the fact that the pressure plate was obviously seized and from what I remember the RPS pressure plate was perfectly fine when this happened the first time.
Solutions to this problem are going to be a new clutch (again...) and redesigning the pilot bearing just in case (again...); the new clutch will instead be a Comp Clutch Strip Series 0420. I will also be re-machining the flywheel spacer to press fit a bronze sleeve into, then a new Nismo roller pilot bearing will be lightly pressed into the sleeve after making sure everything is concentric. Let the fun begin!
What's left of the bearing.
And what the splines of the ACT clutch disk looked like, as you can see they were getting very worn and sharp.
In other news, I got material to get my subframe spacers made. Work is scheduled to be done on Friday!
Also got some drift spares with tax return $$, tires should be coming tomorrow!
XXR 527 - 18x9.75 +20 (they sent me one with a +25 offset... hopefully to be corrected soon)
The situation:
The clutch had been making some excessive noise this past summer and occasionally a strange feeling pedal so I told my self I'd tear it apart and check out whats going on. I wanted to see how my new pilot bearing was doing and was expecting to find a bad throw-out bearing due to the strange clutch feel and noise...boy was I wrong! For starters, the pressure plate had bent teeth (see picture below). So I took this off and inspected the clutch disc and pilot bearing, the disc looked like it was about to strip out AGAIN and the pilot bearing was nearly completely trashed.
Alright, my first thought is something isn't aligned properly as it should NOT be doing this. Looking deeper into the problem I noticed that the pressure plate teeth weren't bent but that the pressure plate friction surface was crooked inside the housing. I was able to hit the friction surface a couple times and it straightened out which in turn corrected the teeth. When I inspected the flywheel it appeared to have a little hot spot where the friction disk was closest to the flywheel.
My conclusion to this whole problem is now pointing entirely to a defective/bad pressure plate. I'm surprised to say this as I've always heard ACT was a very good brand. Due to the somewhat seized pressure plate, it was creating an unequal amount of force on the clutch disk, more so on the one side, which normally would have an equal and opposite friction force on the full face of the disk. However, due to the uneven clamping load there was a smaller friction force on the opposing side of the clutch disk. This caused the input shaft to be pressed against the pilot bearing, wearing it much more than it normally would. As it wore the input shaft would be forced off-axis and cause added friction between the input shaft and clutch splines.
This huge chain reaction almost brought me to strip out ANOTHER clutch disk and input shaft. So glad I caught it before it ruined another transmission. Reason's I do not suspect alignment issues as much are simply due to the fact that everything lines up very nicely when assembled, and more so due to the fact that the pressure plate was obviously seized and from what I remember the RPS pressure plate was perfectly fine when this happened the first time.
Solutions to this problem are going to be a new clutch (again...) and redesigning the pilot bearing just in case (again...); the new clutch will instead be a Comp Clutch Strip Series 0420. I will also be re-machining the flywheel spacer to press fit a bronze sleeve into, then a new Nismo roller pilot bearing will be lightly pressed into the sleeve after making sure everything is concentric. Let the fun begin!
What's left of the bearing.
And what the splines of the ACT clutch disk looked like, as you can see they were getting very worn and sharp.
In other news, I got material to get my subframe spacers made. Work is scheduled to be done on Friday!
Also got some drift spares with tax return $$, tires should be coming tomorrow!
XXR 527 - 18x9.75 +20 (they sent me one with a +25 offset... hopefully to be corrected soon)
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Subframe DROPPED.
For one of my classes we get two projects a semester where we get to design and create something. I chose to make my own aluminum subframe risers as my factory ones are SHOT, so here we go. I will soon have the entire power train out as well as I'm taking the engine and trans out for some freshening up, more on that later.
Car looks like it's got an extreme case of that classic muscle car stance with it all raked out. Like or no like?
Really this went extremely easy. After taking the exhaust off, disconnecting the driveshaft, unbolting the calipers, disconnecting the ebrake lines, and unbolting the struts the thing popped right out after undoing the 4 bolts holding the subframe in. Was ridiculously easy.
I had to unbolt the wheels to slide it out, but once out put them back on. This assembly is beastly heavy by the way. Maybe it's time to install some q45 aluminum uprights I've got back in MN.
And just some other misc. pictures for whomever may need them.
Car looks like it's got an extreme case of that classic muscle car stance with it all raked out. Like or no like?
Really this went extremely easy. After taking the exhaust off, disconnecting the driveshaft, unbolting the calipers, disconnecting the ebrake lines, and unbolting the struts the thing popped right out after undoing the 4 bolts holding the subframe in. Was ridiculously easy.
I had to unbolt the wheels to slide it out, but once out put them back on. This assembly is beastly heavy by the way. Maybe it's time to install some q45 aluminum uprights I've got back in MN.
And just some other misc. pictures for whomever may need them.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Update on possible updates to come.
Sooo i will give you a glimps into the future of what is to come. Entire drivetrain will be ripped out within a week or so. Subframe will come out as i will be making and installing some solid risers. The engine/trans is coming out to freshen up some stuff that has been neglected over the past two years. The exhaust is starting to rust and i need to replace the throwout bearing, BAD. I also would like to check on my pilot bearing I made a couple years ago.
In the meantime, until I update with pictures and info from that session, enjoy this fancy tune I found.
Party.
In the meantime, until I update with pictures and info from that session, enjoy this fancy tune I found.
Party.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Pictures from FOTOmotive!
I ended up winning a contest FOTOmotive was holding which resulted in me getting a free rig-shoot with these guys! They always always ALWAYS come out to our drift events and do work. I love these guys to death so naturally I'd like to help these guys out. They do some fantastic work, and there is plenty of it to go around. Want some pictures of you car or bike taken? Check them out! Top notch stuff and really great to work with. Here's some of the images they took of my car during the rig shoot. Really happy with how they all came out and will even be getting a nice poster-sized print out of at least one of them.
Show these guys some love at their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/FOTOmotive
They regularly post drifting photos throughout the summer there so if you see your car and want a print get ahold of them. I know they would be more than happy to do that for you, and for a reasonable price too! Professional print, frames, whatever you need.
I will leave you with some pictures.
vvv I think this one is my all-time favorites. vvv
Show these guys some love at their Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/FOTOmotive
They regularly post drifting photos throughout the summer there so if you see your car and want a print get ahold of them. I know they would be more than happy to do that for you, and for a reasonable price too! Professional print, frames, whatever you need.
I will leave you with some pictures.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Saw this and decided to reblog.. "Ripped off hard"
Read the story, pretty crazy and i really feel for the guy.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2278180
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2278180
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wish list?
Is it too early to be starting a wish list for over the winter/tax returns??
I think not.
Number 1 on my list:
Ikeya Formula inner tie rods. I just bought new s14 replacement stuff last winter and they were first too long with stock control arms. Now they aren't long enough with my extended control arms and the inners don't have enough thread engagement to put my 7mm spacers on. Facepalm. Solution is below.
These would also be nice but not necessary:
Ikeya Formula tie rod ends.
Number 2 on the list: A BUCKET SEAT!!! FINALLY!!!! Now whether these will happen or not.... no idea.
I think not.
Number 1 on my list:
Ikeya Formula inner tie rods. I just bought new s14 replacement stuff last winter and they were first too long with stock control arms. Now they aren't long enough with my extended control arms and the inners don't have enough thread engagement to put my 7mm spacers on. Facepalm. Solution is below.
These would also be nice but not necessary:
Ikeya Formula tie rod ends.
Number 2 on the list: A BUCKET SEAT!!! FINALLY!!!! Now whether these will happen or not.... no idea.
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