Mission april 23therd who's going im going this time!!!

[Jason Harwood]

Good thing you drive an auto though!

[Zach Holt]

list:
yan w/car
me w/car
ivan w/car
drew w:camara
kyle w/car

maybes

jason
remi

[Drew Sale]

my season is done. I get knee surgery that day. 

i'll drive it for ya 

[Jason Harwood]

Car's fine, I was on crack.
Maybe for friday still, incase I start swapping the accord for my friend,

[John Hartman]

Have Alison drive it Marke, after all its an auto 

She could be the fastest female DSM driver in BC.

[Brett Haviland]

Jason, maybe your center viscous differential has finally given up the goast cuz ur running the wrong final drive in that tranny.

[Remi Raymond]

You sure it would be his final drive?
Final drives are apparently the same for all manual 1g and 2g cars (and GVR4s too) at 4.929
Automatics got their own ratio.

The thing that killed my center diff was the front diff ratio being wrong.

Taken from some information Jack (jacks transmissions) sent me when my center diff decided it wanted to become a pretzel.

Both the transmission and the transfer case have different gearing for 1995-1996 vs. 1997-1999.

The 1991-1996 transfer case have the same ratios (1.090 ratio). As well, the 1990-1996 transmissions have the same front differential 58-tooth ring gear.

The 1997-1999 transfer case is a different ratio (1.074 ratio) from the earlier ones because the transmission uses a 57-tooth front differential ring gear.

If you have a 1998 GSX manual transmission vehicle, you will need a 1997-1999 transfer case, or you will need a professional transmission rebuilder to swap out your 57-tooth front differential ring gear for the 58-tooth ring gear from the 1990-1996 transmissions to utilize a 1991-1996 transfer case. The output shaft pinion gear is the same for all 1991-1999 5-speed AWD transmissions.

The rear differentials are the same on 1995-1999 vehicles (3.545 ratio).

If you use a 1991-1996 transfer case with a 1997-1999 transmission without swapping the front differential ring gear, you will end up with a transmission that is powering the front wheels 2mph different than the rear wheels, which will destroy your center differential, rear differential, and your viscous coupler. Either swap the front diff ring gear and pick up a 1991-1996 transfer case, or get the proper 1997-1999 transfer case for your application.

The driveshaft is the same for all 2G DSM's 1995-1999.

The front axles are different depending on the application of ABS vs. Non-ABS as they would or would not have an ABS ring pressed onto the outer CV hub. As well, the driver-side half-shaft (the shaft that is installed into the transmission, and is bolted onto the engine block, NOT THE AXLE) is different between the 1995-1996 models vs. the 1997-1999 models because of the flange bolt placement. You cannot interchange a 1995-1996 halfshaft with a 1997-1999 halfshaft and have it bolt up properly. The axles are the same in size and splines, and fitment other than the ABS ring stuff.


Finally, the transfer case output shaft spline count is either 22-spline for 1989 through mid-1990 transmissions, or 23-spline for late-1990 through 1999 transmissions. There are no 21-spline tranfer case output shafts in USDM 1989-1999 transmissions.

[John Hartman]

he says he counted teeth and it was the same. 

[John Hartman]

PS, Brett, isn't it(the 23rd) your wifes B Day? 

[Brett Haviland]

I wont be there this time... got the wifey's b-day party to attend!

Yup!! I wont be there this friday night!! got some partyin to do

and also my colt is super slow.  Im tired of running 16's and 17 seconds.  Time for some new mods, or a different car.... that goes FASTER lol

but to the colts credit, it does get the best gas mileage out of all my cars... so it saves me a few bucks driving like 180 km's a day.

[Remi Raymond]

Colt vs mark 2 Jetta grudge match!
(If you ever bring it out again)

[John Hartman]

My moneys on the Colt.  Turbos make more power for less money.

DSM smic mounted up front = nearly free

1g turbo 5spd DSM cams, = cheap

dsm 1g manifold =  free/cheap

14b, not as cheap, but still not expensive

exhaust, closer to expensive, but not much

I'd say $500 should do it?

Whats $500 gonna do to the Jetta?

And don't get me wrong, I love old VW's(water cooled), a Mk1 Scirocco got me started in fiddling with cars way back when.

[Brett Haviland]

Pffft my turbo colt would anniliate a MKII stock tank.

With just a intercooler and exhuast, +MBC I could be running around 15 psi of boost with minimal knock on the stock 11b turbo.  I imagine that would be good for 15 second runs no problem.  I throw on a 14b and some other goodies like a 1G throttle body and 2G elbow plus chipping my stock eprom ECU...  It should be EASILY a 14 second car by then...... and i bet john is right... all those part would be less then $500... (for me anyways considering i have most of them sitting ready to go)


I should be getting the exhuast fabricated up and installed by next week.. and hopefully my water/air intercooler installed as well before the next Street legals...

[Remi Raymond]

My moneys on the Colt.  Turbos make more power for less money.

DSM smic mounted up front = nearly free

1g turbo 5spd DSM cams, = cheap

dsm 1g manifold =  free/cheap

14b, not as cheap, but still not expensive

exhaust, closer to expensive, but not much

I'd say $500 should do it?

Whats $500 gonna do to the Jetta?

And don't get me wrong, I love old VW's(water cooled), a Mk1 Scirocco got me started in fiddling with cars way back when.

My money is too, but it would be fun to have a battle of the 17 18.5 second cars...
once...

[Brett Haviland]

Remi, we dont need any 20+ second runs .... me running 17's is hard enough!

You really think the MKII could break into the 17's??


I would be up for leaving the colt stock for another week or so to do this "17 second grudge match"... but i highly doubt the MKII could run in the 17's stock.