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Indeed it is! Like a charm. It actually broke the second hand shaft we put in. A shaft we found yesterday at a local wrecker. I think it was an aftermarket CV judging by the way it exploded.

We needed to replace the original FR shaft with this because the original shaft was over heating, and blew the boot off, send grease everywhere and overheating/welding the CV.

Just one of them things........

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lol fences. and llamas.

every big (big) power running lots of fwd kills drive shafts and front diffs. the more front they run up to 50% the quicker they go, but the front driveline is just too small. I've got no doubt the only permenent fix is billet driveshafts and a bigger front diff....will require lots of hard work.

yep, there is no (easy) way around it really. the other problem that doesn't help is front driveshaft angles and again with the diff in the sump that's not exactly easy to cure either (unless you can just return the car to factory ride height which in this case is not practical).

Some guys in japan have made stronger front and rear driveshafts but the cost is pretty nasty. then again so is f**king everything else! like dundan said front diffs like to explode too and being in the sump there is bugger all you can do about it short of a full custom set-up.

the only practical solution is keep breaking the bits as they break. or mark's answer was "drive it less"... lol.

or mark's answer was "drive it less"... lol.

i wouldnt be locking that one in, eddie.

dont hi octane have some big dollar driveshafts?? or is the CV's thats the issue??

the japs have to be on to something surely... they have a few 1000hp gtr's getting around now..

is there a way that you can turn the front traction up and down with steering angle?? doesnt the hicas work of a steering wheel sensor??

what do the wrc cars use for front CV's?? i mean they are the the most hardcore 4wd thrashers on the planet.. admittedly they dont have 700hp and they weigh less with less traction... but still... gotta be some ideas there.

its easy solved just run less front torque. the rear diffs are pretty much indestructable (only about 5% smaller than ford 9") and the driveshafts are OK but casn be upgraded.

the problem is....the more fwd, the quicker they go....so in an event like this they have to run 50/50 and hope for the best.

plenty of options for driveshafts, just jap even have billet stuff on the shelf. its the front diff that is the big issue.

where is lofty....how are you guys going with front diffs....you guys have by far the most experience with trying to put big power thru the front in circuit use.

its true we need to run 50/50, we even built a trasfer case with a solid shaft so it dosn't have a clutchpack (very light weight) ,in testing car was very fast but front diff couldn't handle it. we punched the front diff assembly off the sump.

The problem is the front diff is small but if you run too much fwd under braking the load coming back into the front diff is opposing the load from the transfer case. the casting on the sump is the weakest link and because the front pinion and cownwheel

create a sideload (trying to spread apart)they punch the diff off. when you look at a broken one you can see they will take that load in the power delivery direction (on power pinion has thrust direction against sump) but they are not strong the other way. result was to limit how much fwd under brakes (no broken diffs since)

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Hi all,

A bit of news on something we have been organising behind the scenes with this driver and his manager in Japan ;) ...

Toshiki Yoshioka, Works Bell sponsored D1 driver and winner of the 2008 Formula D Las Vegas event, is coming to Australia for the World Time Attack Challenge.

Yoshioka has been invited to compete in the drift section of World Time Attack Challenge, and will be driving a 475hp 1JZ Toyota powered S13 in Sydney.

If any of you have ever seen videos of him running in D1 or Formula D, you'll know how spectacular his driving is.

We're going to be very busy at WTAC with Yoshioka's visit, our sponsorship of Mark Berry's Advan R34 GT-R, and a number of our customer cars running in this event also - it'll be an incredible event !

More info about Yoshioka's visit, a video interview with him, and a video of him competing in Japan can be found here ...

http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/..._australia.html

- The Tuners Group

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Yoshioka has been invited to compete in the drift section of World Time Attack Challenge, and will be driving a 475hp 1JZ Toyota powered S13 in Sydney.

http://www.tunersgroup.com/TunerWire_Live/..._australia.html

- The Tuners Group

ben ben will let anyone drive his car

i offered to drive but he likes asian guys

either way ill drink him under the table

by the way its fatz here on sato's computer

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Agreed with Lofty, we're also disengaging FWD under braking in an attempt to alleviate the front diff falling off.

I do think last week's CV was just one of those things. The boots have torn apart on this particular shaft before we found a fix for that and we've re-booted and re-packed this shaft twice I think.

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