metal salad
 

made my first metal salad today. i was waiting for it and it snuck up on me. made it about 1500 miles. ended up breaking it going up ceasar's head mountain. made it about half way up and broke a tooth off. drove it to the top and coasted back down and then on the flats at the bottom of the mountain it lost it and broke all to shit... awwwsome sound, even have some video :)

accually looking thru the vids i accually got when it blew on me on video :) lucky me

listen when i go into gear after the turn :gay:

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WTF ------s
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At least you were surrounded by gearheads!:hs:

"I don't know what the fuck that is."
haahhaha It's the sound of a long day ahead.

hahahaha, i got her back already, good thing i have my 1.8 diff swap next to me.

i didnt know at the time cause it was still driving just fine but then i was like ohhh... haha i know what that is :td:

Yikes.

"dunno what the fuck that is." <-- classic

So when are ya gonna put the body pannels back on the car? I would think that would be a cop magnet like that, mainly because they wonder why the fuck the body is all torn off

How do you guys drive in flip flops. I've tried to drive in sandals to pick up milk and I have a hard time. Feet got all caught up in the pedals. Would definitely never try it with some spirited driving. It must be the skills. :cool:

did this not give it away :rofl:

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I kick my flip-flops off and drive barefoot as often as possible.

Scratch

That's a perfect example of why I did my 1.8 swap....you just never know when/how it will give....Ive hear stories of it blowing up on the highway, in the middle of drifting, cruising on a backroad....at 200rwhp I was pushing my luck

Did you happen to toss this salad of metal?

Look at the pics, I assume its a regular thing.

:rofl:

dude, you've got the ugliest, most badass car on this forum. nice roll bar, did you make it?

You have the cleanest engine bay ever! Do you have a writeup on the wiretuck?

rain washes it off?

lol

should've kicked the clutch on the way down, see what happens :D

thx and no thx guys haha. i am the guy int eh red/white striped shirt. i do have tennis shoes on, my old ass worn thin ones. the guy whereing sandles was just there for the ride. kevin, stupid flying guy... hes just an idiot, always. yea i made the roll bar, never got around to putting it in untill last weekend. and yes i did destroy the diff on my way down. after i got to the bottom i saw a good gas station so i told granger (flip flop dude riding with me) that i was gonna see if it could even hold any boost with it all fucked up, so i went into second, hit about 7 psi and it exploded, the subbie behind me saw a ton of oil fly out the axle holes and they werea bout 50 ft back and heard it go out. then it just sounds like rocks after that and the engine is no longer connected to the ground so we pulled into the gas station.

no wire tuck, megasquirt and not using any extra options on the car is why is pretty much empty, but nothing is tucked. turns out i have been rich and can still pull another 15-20whp more out of it next time i tune. looks like itll be awhile till i am back on the road, gotta swap diffs, change front main seal, change the plugs, alignment, bolt on the new suspension, primer the rest of the body and paint it and get it tuned again. probly be done by the end of may. .... then she will be done! well except for the hardtop when i get rich

and on the way up before it went out

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i lost mine a month ago. the pinion broke on mine, not the ring gear. the u-joints on the driveshaft were really stiff. i like my MS lsd, so i had a shot peened ring and pinion installed with new bearings and seals.

putting in my 1.8 open/(torsen) ((fingers crossed for it being a torsen) in a few weeks. donor car has 90k miles. would you suggest me replacing the bearings and seals when i put it in or when i switch it over to a clutch pack? or just never bother?

how about bushings too? Mmrdirect.com?

You guys keep reminding me. I need to go see mmr and see what's up. They're like 2 miles from me.

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there is your carnage :bigtu:

surprised the pinon went and not the ring.

that'll buff out

had a few teeth get chewed up on the ring, but not as bad i was going to expect. and even that was probly caused by the pinion going out. so tecnically that means, my 1.8 rear end is just as suseptable to breaking as this one right?

yours looks like mine, but not as bad. the pinion split of about 40% of the helix, not just the teeth, the actual pinion.

i have a shop i goto here since i don't have the time or garage space anymore. the owner is japanese as are the rest of the employees (all are difficult to understand), but their workmanship and knowledge of miatas is second to none. he told me that when the u-joints start to stiffen on the miatas, the vibration it causes just eats up the pinion. i never knew that.

i'm not one to take my car in for repairs, but i have to admit, i never doubt these guys. hiro's garage in costa mesa. koji-san ftmfw.

got the 1.8 conversion in with some modification of the ends of the axles from me trying to knock them out. everything went it great other than that. my hoping for a torsen was for nothing. but i never looked inside.

is there a way to tell by turning the pinon and seeing what happens to the axles or buy turning the axles?

ya if you take off the stubshafts off and look through the hole, if there is a bar going across in the middle it is an open.

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aka its already in

make your own water box and dump the clutch?

yeah, prettymuch the only way i believe, just drive it hard, you should be able to tell. you can't turn the wheels because a torsen will turn opposite ways like an open.

the pinon gear on the 1.8 should still be larger.

look through the stub holes, if you can see through it's a LSD, see the bar (as above) it's an open.

braineack:
just do a couple of donuts in a parking lot and if the car wants to go wide, you have an open differential.

I have an open, my brodies suck. When turning my driveshaft both wheels turn the same direction though, is that normal?

yea it wont take long to find out if its open or not by driving, but its still not drivable. front main seal is out, thats my next job. i got 13 tires on wheels to take care of, all bald and need to be thrown. when i get her back on the road and pump out another 15-20 more whp out of her ill take care of some rubber and well know if its an open or not haha.

sounds like a plan

sorry to hear about the diff, on a side note, clean looking engine bay!

thanks :)

yep, heh, its open :barf:

turns out that whining sound i was hearing every since i bought the car was the diffs bearings, no more sound :) man i thought that was my tranny for 2 years now. bad bearings probly is what killed the diff i am thinking.

1.6 diffs generally die due to poor lubrication to the pinion bearing. The diff isn't designed that well and the pinion bearing doesn't get enough lube. The bearing wears, you get slack between the pinion and ring, and then you get what you have there.

Love the upper shock mounts. I have a set of M2 mounts that I have been very tempted to convert to somthing similar with a piece of pipe, but worried about strength. After looking at yours I think I may just have to go for it. Did you do any calculations as far as how high to stick the mount, or just go with what looked good?

Considering it shares that same "design" as the 1.8L counterpart that is nearly bulletproof when it comes to adding power, I'm still going to assume it's simply too small of a ringgear to handle torque, plain and simple.

yes i had to look at the size of the bump stop and the length of the shock at full length and look at when i will get coil bind and how much adjustablility i will have on my sleeves. looked like 1.75 high on the pipe was the trick, but i probly could have gone 1.25 and still been fine. i also went with a 6" rear srping instead of the 7" that usually give you for the rear. looking at it now i could have gone 7" but i like the ability to still lower and raise it up.

all 1/8" mild. 1.25" welded bolts to the mount. 1/8" wall tubing and stick welded tubing to top circle peice for extra strength, all else is tig'd. spring perch hat is 3.5" across and the tubing for the 1.75" stretch at the tope is 2.5" od, enjoy :)

ah yes, reminds me of my metal caesar salad, mine was not drivable at all though after it happened. i blew one of the spider gears apart. i also, had an open 1.8 diff chillin in the garage for swap. but i made an oath to myself not to own another open diff... so, i swapped it out with a 1st generation rx7 lsd carrier and 3.90 final drive. much better. this one is holding the abuse just fine. i like how stripped down your car is, its gangsta.

The size of the ring gear doesn't help anything, but considering how many people kill the 1.6 on stock power there is more to it than that.

I got the info about lube problems from a local diff shop that does rebuilds on miata diffs. Apparantly if you take one that hasn't blown appart yet, there is usually a fair bit of wear and slop in the pinion bearing. They replace that bearing, and all the others, and run the diffs on heavier oil. Apparantly after doing that the 1.6 diffs have no problems (of course this rebuild costs nearly as much as a 1.8 diff, so why bother).