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I have always had a trailer for my racing, although the rally car is the only car ive ever raced that is actually road legal so its a bit different haha, but yeah just have myself setup with trailer, prado and tow the rally car.
the rally car is also not a nice car to drive slowly or at cruise with clutch and the noise so much rather cruise to the event, do the skids, and if anything breaks you just throw it on the trailer, cruise home and fix it another day haha.
Depends on what your trying to do, if you just want to do some skids in a daily at a trackday id say the odds are good enough to deal with a breakage or otherwise if it happens. if you going to a rallysprint or full on racing the car then your pretty close to the limits so doesnt take much to make it undriveable
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i do the rallycar gearbox wayyyy more than i like to admit, all but once was at home, the other was on a hoist and it was amazing.
pretty much a 1 man deal apart from lifting the actual box into place which needs a jack, another guy to guide and alot of swearing
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What do you want to use the diff for though? As it is only really of benefit if you are going racing.. On a street car I believe you wouldn't get value for money.
If you don't want to buy new, you can get the factory R160 plate one from an RA, although I think they are pretty rare and if memory serves me right, only come in 3.9 ratio. As Loren has mentioned for the R180 factory plate LSD, isn't as aggressive as aftermarket, but still better than sh*tty viscous and I would expect the R160 one would be the same.
Otherwise, try calling workshops that work on rally/race cars and see if you can find someone with one they are willing to sell.
I run a KAZZ front diff which is same thing different manufacturer. it pops and bangs and brilliant for rallying, but agree is fairly aggressive for street use. http://www.kaazusa.com/ its cheaper than the cusco im pretty sure, there are a couple of NZ distributors that can get them from what i know, i got mine with the rally car so not 100 sure
In the rear i run the factory r160 plate style diff, if i jack the car up and turn one wheel forwards the other 3 all turn forwards so everything is pretty tight haha. I have 4.1 rear plate diff, plus a spare that is 4.1(not selling sorry) so not sure if i just have 2 that happen to be swapped or if you can get them in 4.1 factory, but i had a 3.9 ages ago that i sold so they are arround just have to keep your eyes open
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Howya lads. Looking to get 2 rear tyres for my Legacy GT this weekend. Some 18's. Any recommendations for places to get some? Went to Tonys Tyres on Lincoln Road. Just looking for any other suggestions. Cheers lads.
Talk to Chris at Mag and Turbo he sorts out all my stuff for rally car and everything else, tell him Matt sent you
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hi team,
looking at doing some off season fixing on the rally car, does anyone know if a GF8 fuel tank would fit in a GC8? Rocks like denting this one. might look at some underbody protection as well......
Cheers
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Yeah thinking heads... td05 upgrade time? Lol
hmmm cock thats not really what i was hoping it was. i have a TD05 spare that im all setup to put in, but turbo doesnt feel sloppy enough be causing the issue.
it was at the end of 2 races that were fairly long each so im picking the engine was quite hot...
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Evening team,
Just after some guidance with our Speedway Legacy,
last time we raced it on the last race it lost a bit of power and started pumping white smoke out the exhaust
I assumed it was the turbo(TD04) but I have taken the front of it off and the shaft doesn't have any play in in, could it still be the turbo or is possibly more serious.....
Any thoughts?
Cheers
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Just a FYI for anyone with possumlink/G1 link gear, the software does run and I can login to the ecu on a windows 8, 64bit PC
hasnt really resolved the issue as everything looks ok, but now i can log(by having the PC on and connected during runs) to see if any problems occur.
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Good old fuel surge?
I used to have an odd issue with the Possumlink at trackdays, where it would go into a "safe mode" after half a lap then come right after another or two. Never figured that one out.
But if your using a factory fuel tank and pickup for the pump (and no surge tank), it's good old fuel surge. Mine would surge even with over half a tank of fuel.
has surge tank usually, feels very much like fuel surge, but was happening with the tank, without the tank etc. ive replaced lift pump to make sure the pump sure tank is getting enough fuel, but this is why i want the guage, so i can see the pressure drop to confirm or if its cutting with no pressure drop then its something else....
this fault was very strange, does seem to be load related as went the whole way up ashley forest no drama on the last run, but then cut out after the dipper and after the finish.
im rewiring for dedicated feeds for the in tank and external pumps, i have a laptop to log all the stuff off the ECU to see if i can see an error with any sensors like a dodgy TPS or something, so the only thing i cant see is the fuel presure. im hoping the new lift pump and wiring will solve
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What sort of gauges have you looked at?
I reckon an a/f ratio gauge would be more useful (as an "oh look, the #*&&$ has hit the fan already) if you want something for the left seat driver to entertain themselves with. Something like the ngk or innovate gauges?
Im having issues with the car cutting out intermittently so im trying to use it for fault finding, see if the pressure is dropping causing the car to cut out, or if the car cuts but i still have pressure i can look else-ware. i have a laptop coming to hookup to the possum-link during runs to log what is going on to see if i can see a sensor or something that is dieing, but need to know if fuel pressure is there to start with
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haha yeah thats why its going in front of the ballast seat, err sorry co-driver
i would hook it to the ECU however i run a possum link so dont think i have any extra inputs or anything
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Chat to Tony at RDL perforamance in Hornby, he has almost finished the setup on my track car..Should have it running before Koom
do you know what you ran into the cab at all?
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Hi team,
Looking at putting a analog fuel presure gauge in the rally car but cant really find a kit that id be happy to put in.
Anyone installed a guage like this/know where i can get one?
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G1 possum link question for ya gotasuby,
I have got a seriallink now, had a wee look and all the sensors seem to be behaving although i haven't taken it for a blat to load it up, but i was wondering if i could start logging on the ECU then come back and download it, or do i have to leave a PC attached for logging?
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I've got a wagon bumper on my gc, exactly the same, the v2 had a different style bumper to the later v5's etc but it's only a cosmetic difference with a defined "bumper" strip on the early bumpers. the later style bumpers look a little nicer IMO but any gc\gf bumper will fit any gc\gf in my experiance
This, i took a bumper off a GF for my GC and fits perfectly, so just need to match the version, i think 1 and 2 are the same, then changes for 3 etc.
i have a v3 white bumper here just needs a small repair on one side where previous owners wheel damaged it, can have it dirt cheep, will post a pic if your interested
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Hey team,
im a bit confused, im just setting up the handbrake in the new rally car from the old one, and the old one has 1 rear line blocked, this worked in the old car, so i assume i put both fronts on 1 section and the 2 rears(through 1 line now) on the other and block the spare off?
Cheers
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Palmside used to do them too
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I don\'t know for sure, but seeing as how incestuous the rally fraternity is down here, I bet Palmside supply cages that have been pre-bent by Dave.
yup, lots of cage builder use prebent hoop and laterals by dave, mine in but got done by another builder, have a mate that works at another and all theres is as well
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That\'s the name. Couldn\'t remember what his last name was.
It\'s spelt McCahon btw. Dave McCahon from Racecraft Engineering.
http://m.finda.co.nz/business/listing/4pnlrl/racecraft-engineering/
But I\'ve only ever used un-scalloped kits from him.
yup dave supplys the hoops and laterals pre bent,supplys to alot of cage builders nation wide as well so will just need to supply your chassis code and away you go. but not notched, and youll still have to notch all your strait pipes
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which ratio would be the thing with price,
2.5 great
2.75 good
3.0 up "normal"
im sure someone can enlighten everyone on the specific cars each one came out of....
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Id Replace it, cheap insurance if the shards are still in there, youd kick yourself if there were shards and it killed your new engine
get a second hand one and clean and clean that one, throw up a wanted add someone will have one floating round from a engine swap or whatever
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i have a 3.9 STI RA Plate diff, i just brought but found i already have a spare so dont really need it lol, paid 300, will sell for the same if your keen, im in chch, where r you.
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thats for cusco diffs though nick..
from memory the Subaru factory ones are sealed up.
Fwiw. hes brough the v2 sti ra one i sold to Roo
and is asking about that diff specficallyconfusing desu. didn\'t you have your r160 mech re-shimmed? how are they to do that if its sealed? i think you\'ll find the basic design of a mechanical clutch diff similar enough that the cusco info is a useful example. left/right differential torque through the spider/pinion gears rotates the cross-shaft. depending on the cam angle of the cross-shaft and the groove you end up with expanding pressure on the clutches. in my previous post you can clearly see the two different set of grooves for 1.5 and 2 way setup
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on a side note the other diff is the a way of telling if its 1 way, 1.5 or 2 way easily?
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you can see cross-shaft setup through holes in the diff casing, but no harm disassembling for fun
yeah i assume the mechanism works the same, just need to disassemble to find out, the second pic is all i can see of the split so cant really see the shapeof the grove
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Lol, funny story, the diff in the second pic i already owned, so it looks like i have 2 plate lsd now, one is a 4.1 and the one i just got is a 3.9.
Should have opened it up first lol
So i now have 3plates includin the one in the rally car, plus 2 vsld the 4.44 woll go on the speedway car, plus 3 vsld with thr stub axles poking out, hmm deff time for a garage cleanout....
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i have a RA DCCD 3.9 752 series box for sale if your after that, or will swap for 4.44 754 series RA ness haha