Rear End/Suspension Questions

[IJ.]

Delivered by the Easter Bunny and the Tooth fairy

 

[shaeff]

i still believe!

 

[IJ.]

But you're "special" Chris

 

[EvoLuTioN]

ian: it's truly a thing of beauty. awesome work!

evolution: DAMN! you ripped that thing apart! what was your power level (i was still around 300rwhp, and have concluded (and others have, too) that the crack was there for years- probably even before i got the car!

suprabad: i built the car to have fun! haha

alot more than IJ! that's for damn sure.... j/k I think it was a week after I upgraded to a 74mm from a GT40

 

[shaeff]

haha, i am special!

evolution: yikes! that must have been a scary ride for a bit!

 

[TheRemedy]

whats the gearing on the stock lsd's...is it 4.11?

 

[IJ.]

4.3... LSD
4.1... T1 Torsen
3.91.. LSD
3.73.. LSD

 

[EvoLuTioN]

My way

also, that can't be natural.... must be the drugs, no way its 9"

 

[Enraged]

IJ, any pics of your subframe used to mount the 9"?

 

[91TurboDave]

ian: blown away. haha. i'm blown away. i knew you had it, but it never really HIT me. i never actually thought to myself: "hey chris, ian has a ford 9" rear in his supra!". haha!

brian: thanks! he's awesome!

suprabad:
heh, that was ONE winter, and i only took it out on days where there was no snow. (if you look closely in that video, there's no snow on the pavement, but there are some pebbles)

and honestly, you can't tell from the pics, but the rust you see on there is all surface rust. i can't even scrape it off with anything. a bit of sand paper makes it disappear!

however, i honestly don't care how it happened, so long as it NEVER happens again!

and no, you won't catch me sliding anywhere in the winter, but you'll find me anywhere sliding in the summer.

Snow? I will make you guys cringe...couldnt get it into the garage when it started....Damn near cried!

 

[IJ.]

IJ, any pics of your subframe used to mount the 9"?

 

[7MGTEsup]

I have just notice all your diffs are different to mine, mine has a cooling tower on the front of it. Are yours not LSD's?? Can't see why my euro spec car would have a cooler and US spec cars don't (as its normally hotter in the US, well in the lower states)

 

[annoyingrob]

also, that can't be natural.... must be the drugs, no way its 9"

The gear inside of it has a 9" diameter. The whole housing is a lot larger with all of the re-enforcement and such. It's designed to be a load-bearing member of a solid rear axle, as opposed to just a ball to hold the gearing like on the Supra.

 

[IJ.]

DBNO: That's a Euro thing I'm assuming with the Autobahns in mind as the G series has a bad habit of destroying the Pinion bearings at sustained high speed.