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Also I should qualify the bolt issue – With the splines engaged in the eccentric, it takes some decent hammer blows to get it out. I’m not stressed with the bolt falling out, more just keeping the lock nut on there for safety.

LOL Peasant IRS

Having both IRS and Live Axle 1991 cars in my garage right now (and having driving both back to back last night on the same roads), the IRS is leaps and bounds ahead in handling and ride comfort. It’s not a perfect setup but with the tweaks I’ve put into mine I’m now finally happy with it. It doesn’t thump and jar, even with SSSLs…[Read more]

Be aware that with mine, to assist in getting the geometry right, I basically used new metal over the top of cut down existing metal to make a doubler plate. This also helps with the tearing of the mounting holes (which you’ve experienced also). However it means that the splined camber bolts are just barely long enough to engage the nut the full…[Read more]

Go nuts.

Honestly it’s been a great modification to the car. First gear is properly usable now. In the past, any heavy throttle application in first just ended in slip. Sounds like fun but after a while it gets irritating.

Be aware it’s not the easiest thing to get right (i.e. it’s fiddly) and you need to make sure you get the opening for the…[Read more]

If it is at the same RPM then, yes, they both have the same torque  :bye:  (Power = Torque x RPM /5252)

Couldn’t help myself there.

I think you’re talking about area under the curve, which is what defines the driveability in the terms of your argument above. A peaky curve isn’t nearly as good to drive as a tabletop curve.

NickVR – My opinion only, but there’s next to no point getting a 2300rpm stall. That is only a few hundred RPM higher than stock. A properly built higher RPM stall is fine for the street. Even a stock 5L will benefit greatly from a 3000-3500rpm stall. Get a lock up item and have the best of both worlds.

My 4k convertor flashes to 4200rpm on full…[Read more]

The most difficult part to get right on the exhausts of IRS cars (in my opinion) is the section between the rear muffler and the main mufflers. Getting sufficient drive shaft clearance at full droop whilst maintaining ground clearance and flow is a pain…

My thoughts on first car mods.

Brakes, Suspension, Tyres.

Don’t worry about power mods until the above is done. You’ll get much more out of those mods while you get more experience driving than trying to make a car with poor brakes and boat-like suspension go faster. Down the line when you want more power, you have the foundation to make it useable.

My thoughts on first car mods.

Brakes, Suspension, Tyres.

Don’t worry about power mods until the above is done. You’ll get much more from the driving experience while you get more experience driving and down the line when you want more power, you have the foundation to make it useable.

My T700 with 4.11’s and a 4000rpm lockup convertor runs below 2500rpm on the freeway.

I gave it a very slight overlap onto the wear surface just to get the line right, but didn’t want a gut full of paint onto the pad surface. Doesn’t seem like a great idea :p

Took 2 mins to mask each rotor anyway.

Drove this all weekend for about 300km total. Dash said 10.3L/100km on the freeway, 12.6L/100 overall, but that was probably closer to 15.

Lots more grip, even in the rain. Once you really provoke it, it slides very nicely. Gives lots of confidence. There is a small harmonic at around 75-80kmh under certain conditions, which I can probably…[Read more]

I’m further increasing the bogan factor. Although, I was walking back to mine last week and I heard the unmistakable sound of a buick 6 with next to no exhaust being held in first. Around the corner comes a white exec with black bumpers, on bump stops and VR Acclaim hubcaps (which I also currently have on my VQ at the moment). I remembered that…[Read more]

Small update.

Having been driving this around a bit lately, think I’ve put 2000km on it since I bought it, with a few longer trips (up to Seymour and back etc.). It eats up highway kms, just cruises along. Really enjoyed the longer drives. However, I’ve had to do two hard-ish stops in it in traffic recently and both times I wasn’t sure I was…[Read more]

I just said to myself “awwwww” and pulled over. Didn’t even get worked up by it. Weird.

Gary – took some photos on the SLR yesterday, need to remember to bring the SD Card into work to upload them. Hopefully I’ll remember tomorrow!

Saturday morning I went and had a pair of new 225 rears fitted to the 15’s. Looks chunky. Testing of the new tread ended rather dramatically, with me thinking I’d finally run out of luck on my ’12 month’…[Read more]

Cheers Gary.

Still a long way to go with this car, not sure I’ll ever get it into a suitable state but that won’t stop me from trying.

Took the car for a run last night. After having the spool in the car for about 7-8 years, driving without one was quite a change. No longer the tight feeling going through round abouts or tight turns (who would’ve thought?).

Centre seems to work just fine, as soon as power is put through it the behaviour is just as before, quite linear. There…[Read more]

<span style=”font-family: Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; background-color: #fafafa;”>Took the car for a run last night. After having the spool in the car for about 7-8 years, driving without one was quite a change. No longer the tight feeling going through round abouts or tight turns (who…[Read more]

OK – It’s been a while. In between working interstate/overseas basically every weekday for this year and trying to maintain a marriage/social life outside of this, the Stato has been neglected. SOme progress now though as I’ve found a few days after work that I could do stuff.

Diff Build

SO I couldn’t really do much more on the rear suspension…[Read more]