Saturday
S2K build
My buddy got some new goodies for his S2K, 17x9 RPF-1's and a bride zeta 3 here are some teasers. the tires will be mounted next week. also harness and harness bar to come aswell
Friday
DRIFTCOLORS.COM makes some MEAN VIDEOS
Below is probably going to the coolest videos you have ever seen. BIG PROPS to driftcolors.com for making such sick ass videos. please do them the honor of watching all of them all the way through.
FUNCTION CERTIFIED
Car: 1997 Acura Integra GS
Engine: B18B1
Owned: 7 Years
Miles: 199K, rebuilt head at 169K miles.
I've run US129 AKA The Dragons Tail 30+ times over 3 years. Making another trip this August. :) 318 curves in 11mi is intoxicating.
Special thanks to Team-Integra, NWP4Life, JHPUSA, PasswordJDM and Sean Richards for helping me with the car.
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Sunday
Thursday
RB25sx
well as many of you know im starting a NEW project. its going to be be an s13 hatch with an RB25det. for the last few weeks i have been receiving parts and waiting for things that have been out of stock. im still waiting for plenty more. but this is what i have so far. and i just got my rb today from zero lift. here are some pictures for you get enjoy. i will post as new things arrive. and i will be posting the build of it. that was why i posted the how to weld a diff a last week.
Wednesday
COPS ARE JERKS
This was such a shame. cops are such douche bags, this car was obviously lowered for a car show that it wasnt 200 feet from. its not like you couldn't tell that there was a car show going on. why did they have to tow his car. very lame.
Tuesday
EIBACH 2011
Well even rain couldn't ruin the show. although it did burn off and turn into a beautiful day. not too hot like years past. this year there was a much heavier police presence as well. i think is was cool how they made a vendor area in there warehouse. it just gets bigger and bigger each year they are running out off room. cant wait for next years.
As usual we were there and we took as many photos as possible. and handed out stickers. below are our top 6 pictures. and then the link to my flickr with over 350 photos.... ok well we chose 8 there were so many sick cars that it was hard to pick out. so just do everyone a favor and take a look at all of them.
LINK TO OVER 350 PHOTOS CLICK HERE
As usual we were there and we took as many photos as possible. and handed out stickers. below are our top 6 pictures. and then the link to my flickr with over 350 photos.... ok well we chose 8 there were so many sick cars that it was hard to pick out. so just do everyone a favor and take a look at all of them.
LINK TO OVER 350 PHOTOS CLICK HERE
Thursday
FUNCTION CERTIFIED
If your going to eibach, check out alejandros EJ.he will be rocking a fresh FUNCTION CERTIFIED sticker.His car has the function and the bling all rolled into one.
ej black
ex
jdm headlights
stock corners
stock lip
mug flaps
back window visor
sunroof visor.
bucket seat
jdm cluster
fog lights
polish beaks
polish control arms
asr brace
on tein susp
carbon fiber trunk
ctr foglight bumper.
jdm b16 with wire tuck
engine bay painted purple
rolling around on some og axis oldschool 15 by 8
and more. check it out in person.
ej black
ex
jdm headlights
stock corners
stock lip
mug flaps
back window visor
sunroof visor.
bucket seat
jdm cluster
fog lights
polish beaks
polish control arms
asr brace
on tein susp
carbon fiber trunk
ctr foglight bumper.
jdm b16 with wire tuck
engine bay painted purple
rolling around on some og axis oldschool 15 by 8
and more. check it out in person.
Wednesday
Tuesday
HOW TO
This is a how to weld a diff for a nissan 240sx. ( this is just a guideline for people to use if they want to know how to do it. functiontheory.com is not responsible for you not doing this right)
ANYWAY. lets begin, we had an extra non abs diff laying around and since most of you know im starting to build a drift car. i decided to get cracking on welding up the diff. i know there is MANY mixed opinions about welding a diff... we here at FUNCTIONTHEORY.COM have personal experience on a few of our cars that we build. we have had no problems at all, for years on our drift cars with diff blowing up, or failing. so that is why u decided to weld it. besides i know most of you do it even if you talk crap on forums about it.
so the way we think we have made it so successful for us is we take A LOT of care doing it. i would say its easily a two hour job. and its super messy. the key is making sure you shield the ring gear with a towel so that any slag flying around wont get stuck on it. also you must THOROUGHLY wash all excess slag COMPLETELY out of the diff. this is the messy part. we used lots of wd40, and motor oil.
here are the steps
tools.
1/2 breaker bar with small 1/2 inch extension
14mm socket
ratchet
flat head screw driver
pen magnet
rags
oil
1. drain the oil out of the diff using the drain plug at the bottom of the diff cover.
2. reinstall the drain plug and them remove the 14mm bolts to take the diff cover off
3. take a rag and get most of the oil off as much of the spider gears as possible.
4. use carb cleaner or something similar to take the rest of the oil off the spider gears so you have a clean area to make a good weld on
5. COVER THE RING GEAR WITH A TOWEL BEFORE WELDING ANYTHING. the towel is going to have to come out ch time you have to move the gears to weld the other side.
6. make sure the spider gears are clean and dry. then tack all four corners of them on both sides
7. no go back to the first side you did and start welding the crap out of each cornermake sure the heat is up on the welder to get good penetration. do this to both sides ( DO NOT weld the ring or pinion gear)
8. allow to cool. we just let it air cool. we didnt want to make the metal contract to fast and possibly mess up somthing in the diff.
9. now here is the patient part. it is going to be a little hard to turn because slag might have gotten in the pinion and ring gear. so go very slow and DON'T force it. this is where you are going to use the flat head screw driver and break off all the slag pieces so they don't come off and BLOW UP your diff while your driving.
10. after you have gave it plenty of oil baths turning the gears while it is full of oil to make sure to get all the lose pieces of slag out you can use the pen magnet to get what ever else out you can.
11. making sure all the oil is back out and the diff turns with ease NO BINDING due to slag. if there is you will have to give it more oil baths and reach your finger in and try to feel for any pieces of slag. now you can re assemble. we just used some RTV gasket maker. and tightened up all the 14mm bolts on the cover. fill it with gear oil and your good to go.
to wrap it up. yes it does look a bit ugly but you really need to lay alot of weld on to be sure that nothing breaks off and wrecks the diff. again this is just the way that we do it that has shown great success for us. we are aware that there are other ways. but we choose to use whats best for us. below are a few pics.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STEP BY STEP PHOTOS
ANYWAY. lets begin, we had an extra non abs diff laying around and since most of you know im starting to build a drift car. i decided to get cracking on welding up the diff. i know there is MANY mixed opinions about welding a diff... we here at FUNCTIONTHEORY.COM have personal experience on a few of our cars that we build. we have had no problems at all, for years on our drift cars with diff blowing up, or failing. so that is why u decided to weld it. besides i know most of you do it even if you talk crap on forums about it.
so the way we think we have made it so successful for us is we take A LOT of care doing it. i would say its easily a two hour job. and its super messy. the key is making sure you shield the ring gear with a towel so that any slag flying around wont get stuck on it. also you must THOROUGHLY wash all excess slag COMPLETELY out of the diff. this is the messy part. we used lots of wd40, and motor oil.
here are the steps
tools.
1/2 breaker bar with small 1/2 inch extension
14mm socket
ratchet
flat head screw driver
pen magnet
rags
oil
1. drain the oil out of the diff using the drain plug at the bottom of the diff cover.
2. reinstall the drain plug and them remove the 14mm bolts to take the diff cover off
3. take a rag and get most of the oil off as much of the spider gears as possible.
4. use carb cleaner or something similar to take the rest of the oil off the spider gears so you have a clean area to make a good weld on
5. COVER THE RING GEAR WITH A TOWEL BEFORE WELDING ANYTHING. the towel is going to have to come out ch time you have to move the gears to weld the other side.
6. make sure the spider gears are clean and dry. then tack all four corners of them on both sides
7. no go back to the first side you did and start welding the crap out of each cornermake sure the heat is up on the welder to get good penetration. do this to both sides ( DO NOT weld the ring or pinion gear)
8. allow to cool. we just let it air cool. we didnt want to make the metal contract to fast and possibly mess up somthing in the diff.
9. now here is the patient part. it is going to be a little hard to turn because slag might have gotten in the pinion and ring gear. so go very slow and DON'T force it. this is where you are going to use the flat head screw driver and break off all the slag pieces so they don't come off and BLOW UP your diff while your driving.
10. after you have gave it plenty of oil baths turning the gears while it is full of oil to make sure to get all the lose pieces of slag out you can use the pen magnet to get what ever else out you can.
11. making sure all the oil is back out and the diff turns with ease NO BINDING due to slag. if there is you will have to give it more oil baths and reach your finger in and try to feel for any pieces of slag. now you can re assemble. we just used some RTV gasket maker. and tightened up all the 14mm bolts on the cover. fill it with gear oil and your good to go.
to wrap it up. yes it does look a bit ugly but you really need to lay alot of weld on to be sure that nothing breaks off and wrecks the diff. again this is just the way that we do it that has shown great success for us. we are aware that there are other ways. but we choose to use whats best for us. below are a few pics.
CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL STEP BY STEP PHOTOS
S2K build
Well got the skunk 2 exhaust on yesterday. super sick as to be expected from anything form skunk. sound is awesome. you might remember last week we put the skunk test pipe on and as we figured it threw a CEL for the secondary o2. so while we did the exhaust we also added the spacer in the test pipe to trick the o2 sensor so no CEL comes. below is a link to my buddy's flickr set of the exhaust install.
EXHAUST INSTALL PICS ON FLICKR CLICK HERE.
EXHAUST INSTALL PICS ON FLICKR CLICK HERE.
Monday
Sunday
BMW E30 "DRIFT ME" Team Insane Racing
what an amazing looking car, certain individuals should take styling, and functional note of this car
Superior Media - BMW E30 "DRIFT ME" Team Insane Racing @ Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show 2011 from Superior Media on Vimeo.
Superior Media - BMW E30 "DRIFT ME" Team Insane Racing @ Bilsport Performance & Custom Motor Show 2011 from Superior Media on Vimeo.
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