Main job was to put the new diff in. I ended up getting one from Mark at MGT who had the 1.5 way from his old R33 race car diff sitting on the shelf. He didn't know what it was - it's nigh on impossible to tell, especially when they're in the case all built up - bu assured me it was good, and tight. So this seemed a good option as I could just bolt it on and go rather than have to strip the old one etc. Plus of course, saved me a bit of money (a rare thing indeed if it's a gtr flavour purchase).
Well, it's certainly tight! Fuck me what a noise it makes. I know tight LSDs bang and knock and moan but this thing sounds like a cement mixer on lock at v low speed. Concerningly so in fact. But we'll see, it's ok in a straight line, not noisy at all etc, so I'm going to try it and see how it goes.
I asked Mark what oil to run in it and he said Motul 75/90 would be ok. I'm wondering if I should put something else in like 90PA...? Need to decide before it goes on track I spose.
We also had the front camber arms off following knocking out the shoulder at rockingham and the allignment guys claiming they couldn't get more than 1.5 deg neg on them. Was going to cut them up which apparently is quite common thing to do to extend the thread.
However, we managed to get load more turns on and according to the guauge am now running -2.6 deg neg on the front. So I'm happy with that, it just relaly pisses me off that these fools can't jsut do their job and set the car up in the first place. We put the guage on the rear and seemingly these didn't have the same amount of camber on them either - perhaps explains some rubbing when i ragged it up the road the other day
As I need it alligned again we also stuck another +10mm on the rear ride height as i think it was still low relative to the front.
Still, it looks pretty cool with all the camber at the front, and I'm looking forward to trying out the new diff, provided of course it isn't fucked...
