Showing posts with label build. Show all posts
Showing posts with label build. Show all posts
Monday
Chelsea Denofa's 18 day Rebuild
Say Howdy! Get Rowdy! Rebuild Edition, Chelsea DeNofa's 18 day Hustle from BC RACING NA on Vimeo.
cool video of how the built chelsea's new car that he didn't end up using, since he got hooked up with bergenholtz racing and is now driving the RX8 that Joon maeng used to drive.its also cool to see that the guy that built his cage uses the same bender we have.
Friday
ETS UTE update
im sure most of you guys know about this build that ETS is doing. but i just stumbled across some updates.
Click the link HERE for the full update on ETS
Saturday
Thursday
S2K build
some more updates on my buddies S2000. got the RPF1's mounted to some azenis. 17x9 + 45 215/45 all around... enjoy
Friday
GROCERY GETTER UPDATE
RB25sx update
sorry for a lack of posting... i have been busy. i was searching far and wide for a clean body for my swap. and this is what i finally got. im very excited. its all 100% stock never modified, no rust, clean title, and straight body. cell phone picture for now. will get some real pictures later, we will also be out of town this weekend for WEKFEST LBC, we will have pleanty of pictures from that as usual posted on tuesday.
for those of you that dont know well we are building a functiontheory.com drift car. here is a link with some more info about it http://functiontheory.blogspot.com/2011/05/rb25sx.html...... we are still waiting for some other parts to come instock so we can get going on it. but we are hoping to have it done by end of july.
for those of you that dont know well we are building a functiontheory.com drift car. here is a link with some more info about it http://functiontheory.blogspot.com/2011/05/rb25sx.html...... we are still waiting for some other parts to come instock so we can get going on it. but we are hoping to have it done by end of july.
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
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.
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.
Friday
GROCERY GETTER UPDATE.
It finnaly got its hood in the mail today. and its all ready to get license plates on monday
S2K build
This is going to be a time line build of my best friends brother's S2K he just bought 2 weeks ago.
the car is a 2001 ap1 it has just 100k miles on it and he got a good deal on it. the car came with the black wheels he is soon to replace them but other then that the car is stock.
so on to the first portion of the build.
SKUNK2 coils
SKUNK2 test pipe
AEM V2 CAI
next week will come the SKUNK2 exhaust stay tuned for more updates
here are some photos.... and all the rest are here at my FLICKR CLICK HERE
the car is a 2001 ap1 it has just 100k miles on it and he got a good deal on it. the car came with the black wheels he is soon to replace them but other then that the car is stock.
so on to the first portion of the build.
SKUNK2 coils
SKUNK2 test pipe
AEM V2 CAI
next week will come the SKUNK2 exhaust stay tuned for more updates
here are some photos.... and all the rest are here at my FLICKR CLICK HERE
Wednesday
GROCERY GETTER
check out my friends grocery getter daily driver. nothing fancy just somthing to be reliable and have some fun in. click the picture to read more about it. its just rocking a d16z6 for now somthing we just had laying around the garage. no crazy roll cages, just some strut bars. he still wants to be able to drive people around in it.
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