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Old 04-04-2016, 05:10 PM
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If you upgrade to a 1.8 diff now, you can sell the 1.6 diff to some who had theirs explode for $1-200 bucks. Why just let it grenade?
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Originally Posted by 18psi
your tranny wont fail
will take much shock loading

the transmission though..........
Yeah, I was talking about the tranny.... tranny can be seen in the earlier pics sitting next to the car. So far has been handling huge loads great, no complaints there. Transmission is a different story.
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Old 04-04-2016, 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by acedeuce802
If you upgrade to a 1.8 diff now, you can sell the 1.6 diff to some who had theirs explode for $1-200 bucks. Why just let it grenade?
No local market in Maine and not worth the effort to ship for that amount of money imo. One of my friends will use it for a project eventually, or some sort of go-kart shenanigans
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Old 04-04-2016, 05:16 PM
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None of your images worked in the first post

So here's one...

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Originally Posted by Girz0r
None of your images worked in the first post

So here's one...

They did work, but the website must be experiencing server issues. Either way I was making a joke at my girlfriend's expense. Luckily she thought it was funny too.
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Old 04-04-2016, 05:23 PM
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is your girlfriend the tranny?
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Old 04-04-2016, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by 18psi
is your girlfriend the tranny?
That was the idea... Wasn't realizing that the pictures weren't working right now.
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This is a better idea then the manifold you have.
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oh yeah the pictures don't work
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Originally Posted by 18psi
oh yeah the pictures don't work
They were working yesterday for me. How can I fix them? URL instead of upload?
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are you on cell phone? that might be the problem. usually it uploads either way. just hit the little picture button and paste in the URL's or upload from pc
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Originally Posted by 18psi
are you on cell phone? that might be the problem. usually it uploads either way. just hit the little picture button and paste in the URL's or upload from pc
Well Nah I was on my PC. I uploaded them directly, wasn't sure if linking externally would make it so other people could see. I could see them last night. I'll just reupload I guess. -_-
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suddenly everything makes sense
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Originally Posted by 18psi
suddenly everything makes sense
I thought you might say that. Basically I would like for the car to be a (relatively quick) v8 troll. Nothing else. It doesn't have to be reliable, look clean etc.
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Originally Posted by 18psi
suddenly everything makes sense
Oh wait here's one to really **** you off.

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Those first few are the day after I got the car, lowered it too much etc, it's now at 12.5 height with kirkey seats and no interior, probably how it will stay. girlfriend enjoys doodling so that gives her something to do while I work on the car.
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Originally Posted by the_enginear
Here are some pictures of the welds on the IC piping and the mani. The welds are much more telling now that they have had some heat applied to them. Not great quality, but could be a lot worse. I have no information whatsoever to provide on the turbo, except the thread sizes and that it is a gt2554 replica. The turbo has already developed some blowby (mostly on the exhaust side, some on intake side) after a 5 minute low-rpm drive, so I suspect it'll be getting replaced rather quickly.











Yeah that'll **** itself in a week or 2.

I really doubt you understand the forces and energy that goes into a manifold if you believe that's up to the task.

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Originally Posted by nitrodann
Yeah that'll **** itself in a week or 2.

I really doubt you understand the forces and energy that goes into a manifold if you believe that's up to the task.

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I mean he could ***** foot and granny shift around and it may last a bit longer.

For all of us men who only drive flat out, it will crack from know how big our penises are.
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are those stud holes stripped out?lol
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