Glossy!

Tore out the driveshaft and open diff today. I also threw the viscous unit in. Painted the cover and the bolts. Uneventful, really.

Going out to dinner with the lady here in a few. More updates later.

PICS.


PS- I'm aware that that white won't last on the bolts, I was bored.

I've done the impossible!

I've finally found a good use for an open diff!

For when you're too lazy to go find a BFH, you use an open diff to pound in your output shafts.

Small update

Tonight we got the car up on ramps. It was pretty interesting trying to push the car up there because the jack is still holding Keegan's subframe up. Got the driveshaft unbolted from the trans to train it. Hmmm what else went down... Oh, my spare diff siezed. wtf. Going to have to pull the one out of the car now and throw the viscious in there; not a biggy but oh well. Going to take a stab at getting the diff and driveline unbolted tomorrow before work.

This is how she sits tonight.

An Introduction

Finally getting into this blog hype. I'll be updating this with random car stuff etc.

I've owned a 1990 Nissan 240sx since August of 2007. I bought it with 63k original miles, and I am the third owner. Through this car I met a lot of friends, which have guided me in the right direction with the car. My first concern was to get the automatic swapped out. I slowly pieced together the parts. However, in February of 2008 I got into the accident. The car was still drivable but the driver's side quarter panel was messed up. I pretty much lost all motivation and put my money elsewhere. In December of 08 my auto trans started to fail on me so the car sat until this past May while I threw together the most badass 5 speed swap ever seen. $250 worth of OEM hardware, aluminum one piece driveshaft, 88k mile granny owned 5 speed, Q45 VLSD (with a bigger shim) and brand new everything else. My mentality was: "If I'm going to touch it for the swap, it's going to be new." I ended up spending about $1300 just for the 5 speed swap. Yesterday the best parts for the car arrived... Parts Shop Max coilovers. So today my buddy Keegan (owns an S13 coupe, you'll see a lot of his car in this blog), Tree (FC owner, again you'll see more) and I started to tear into the swap.

I was getting everything ready and I sprayed degreaser on the engine bay. Cleaaaaan.


First step was to tuck the fender harnesses cause this bitch will be LOW.


Then we proceeded to remove the auto shift linkage.


While taking it to the trashcan I dropped it a few times. Clumsy me.


And that's how it's going to sit until we have time to work on it again.

Thanks for looking!