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Do it. Worked for years on my Fiesta. In fact, I swear it helped the rubber underneath recover. When I removed the duct tape it never leaked again...
Perfect Balance's cars | Small update| 05/03/14
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Do it. Worked for years on my Fiesta. In fact, I swear it helped the rubber underneath recover. When I removed the duct tape it never leaked again...
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240 is looking doper by each post bud..
Thanks, although it's probably going to look the way it does for a while now.
I did a drift event in it this past saturday, and I really need more power. With the throttle pinned to the floor this thing wouldn't give any wheelspin past 5k rpm, and I basically kept running out of wheelspin towards the latter half of each turn, as the speed of the car would catch up to the wheels. Anything above 5k rpm and the car simply wouldn't spin the 215s (effectively 225s) any more. Third gear was useless. If I had enough power to take it up to redline in second gear I would have had no issues.
Sooo, saving up for a swap it is..
Blackbird.
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So I kind of skimmed through the thread and amazing progress and I really like the car PB! 👍
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Lol just realized you had the Rays lug nuts on there.
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No ka-t. If it ran correctly maybe, but screw this finicky motor. The plan is an RB20, mainly because of the price/sound.
I do, but unfortunately KAs don't make any torque above 5k rpm. If I was doing some kind of slower parking lot events or something where I was in the powerband, I'd be fine, but at the track, the speeds are just high enough where I need to enter the corners at 5k rpm in second gear, and then drift them with the other 2k I have to spare. Or would have if the car's powerband make enough torque up high to keep them spinning. I found myself drifting the first portion of each corner until the car started to creep to the inside of each corner because it didn't have the wheelspin to keep it on the outside. Eventually I'd just have to straighten out to keep from running off on the inside and try again. I was basically doing each corner as 2 90 degree corners.
I noticed later that the only people having luck with stock motors at the event was people running crappy tires on steelies. And screw that. I rode with a buddy running a stock sr and towards the corner exits he would just roll on the throttle and it would pull him through the corners, and honestly he doesn't make much more power than I do.
My other option is to just roll into corners fast enough that I can slide through it on sheer momentum, but I don't have the confidence for that, especially in the car I needed to drive home in.
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Nice looking car. I would say go for the RB20DET swap. No torque at all below 5k, but my god do they sound good. Cheap as chips too.
Rotary Junkie
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RB20?
I love you, man. Small displacement 6s FTW.
I love you, man. Small displacement 6s FTW.
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I think the turbo will help with the torque, but regardless, I needed torque above 5k, not below it.
Indeed. The idea of a 6 cylinder 2 liter motor that spins to 8k+, AND is turbocharged just makes me happy inside. Plus they sound so good.
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So recently I let a friend borrow the GTX to drive while his car was getting a new differential, and on his way back from work one day, the driveshaft exploded.
Tried for a few days to find a driveshaft with no luck, so I was going to have one made. Crawled under the car to remove it, and found the output shaft from the transfer case completely offcenter in the hole it comes out of. Which means at least the output shaft bearing is gone, and who knows what else.
Considering just making this thing fwd for the meantime, and keeping all the awd parts to either rebuilt or keep until I sell this thing and let the next owner deal with it.
Tried for a few days to find a driveshaft with no luck, so I was going to have one made. Crawled under the car to remove it, and found the output shaft from the transfer case completely offcenter in the hole it comes out of. Which means at least the output shaft bearing is gone, and who knows what else.
Considering just making this thing fwd for the meantime, and keeping all the awd parts to either rebuilt or keep until I sell this thing and let the next owner deal with it.
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- Punknoodle_Nick
How will you make it FWD? Get a FWD gearbox?
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How do you lock the centre diff though?
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With creativity. I have no idea how it looks but with a plate and some bolts you get a long way.
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I was actually talking about replacing the transmission with a fwd trans, but I guess you could lock the center diff.
Conveniently, the car actually had an electronic center diff locker, though I won't be using that.
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Small update. Finally bought something with my ebay gift card I got for Christmas.
50mm spacer for the wheel. I sit pretty far back, so this helps with bringing the wheel even close to me, and gives me more knee room. Really will need harnesses in the future though, since the seat belt runs around the edge of the window frame, and as you can see in the pics, the seat sits behind that, so the belt doesn't even touch my shoulder, making it fairly loose. The seat still holds me in on corners, but my upper body goes forward a decent bit before the seatbelt is tight enough to slow me down.
Also need to rewire the horn, the previous pre-spacer setup won't work anymore.
As far as the 323 gtx goes, currently on the search for a cheap-ish fwd tranmission from the 323 gt, so it will no longer be awd. The awd parts are too hard to source, and too weak for the power the car is putting down. I have a friend with a spare LSD from his old Protege, that, if I'm lucky, will swap into the fwd box, so I won't have 180whp through the left front wheel.
50mm spacer for the wheel. I sit pretty far back, so this helps with bringing the wheel even close to me, and gives me more knee room. Really will need harnesses in the future though, since the seat belt runs around the edge of the window frame, and as you can see in the pics, the seat sits behind that, so the belt doesn't even touch my shoulder, making it fairly loose. The seat still holds me in on corners, but my upper body goes forward a decent bit before the seatbelt is tight enough to slow me down.
Also need to rewire the horn, the previous pre-spacer setup won't work anymore.
As far as the 323 gtx goes, currently on the search for a cheap-ish fwd tranmission from the 323 gt, so it will no longer be awd. The awd parts are too hard to source, and too weak for the power the car is putting down. I have a friend with a spare LSD from his old Protege, that, if I'm lucky, will swap into the fwd box, so I won't have 180whp through the left front wheel.
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- Punknoodle_Nick
Do you have enough air fresheners lol?
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I was actually wondering if someone would mention that. The only one that's any good is the one hanging on the mirror, when they lose their scent, I put it on the side of the column and hang on a new one on, That's almost 4 years of fresheners hanging there.
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I bought a Pole Position used sometime last year. The little patches are square piece of leather with velcro stuck to the bottom. My cousin had them left from his seats after he sold his, so he gave them to me. They keep the seatbelts from chafing the seat, as well as cover a small cut on the seat on the driverside.
Ibonibo
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Did you know that these air refresher are not good for the plastic interior of a car, they have a solvant in them that attacks the plastic. just as FYI.
Nice car though
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They don't touch any plastic, so I don't see the issue.
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So I've been slowly chipping away at dropping the awd trans out of the 323 and swapping in the fwd trans I picked up (that will hopefully be getting an LSD in the next few days).
For the last 3 days I have been trying to remove the passenger side axle nut. Broke my Craftsmen ratchet, picked up a Cornwell one from work, and broke that one too.
Impact gun did nothing, and finally had to resort to cutting it.
Not rusty, just that tight. Woooo. Yay lifetime warranty on tools.
For the last 3 days I have been trying to remove the passenger side axle nut. Broke my Craftsmen ratchet, picked up a Cornwell one from work, and broke that one too.
Impact gun did nothing, and finally had to resort to cutting it.
Not rusty, just that tight. Woooo. Yay lifetime warranty on tools.
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I tried an impact gun, it didn't do anything. You have to realize that 210lb on a 5 foot long pipe couldn't break this thing loose. Unless I've got an impact gun handy that puts out somewhere over 1000ft lb, it's not going to happen.Just use an air tool.. Will be cool to see what you're making of this car
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