• Whos driving this car?

Posted: **Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:58 pm**

mranlet wrote:
GC8VI wrote:dont forget theres a GC owner too. not RWD yet
Let me know when you want to fix that I'll have a welded center diff coming out soon that has your name all over it.

not sure i can put a welded diff in my tranny. its a JDM Ver6 STi RA tranny with DCCD. have been drooling over the Watanabe RWD conversion sleeve for some time, which is built specifically for the Ver6 STi DCCD center diffs. just $600 plus shipping and then waiting like 3months to get it, kinda sucks. my dream-2 trannies:

1. Ver6 STi tranny with 4.11 final for AWD tranny
2. Ver6 STi RA tranny with 4.44 final for RWD tranny

could substitute a stock USDM RS tranny if they could actually handle power without snapping. 1st and 2nd being the weakest gears in the box makes for a bad drift tranny. so only the STi trannies can handle 300-400whp. otherwise PPG gears, but holy hell i would have sell of organs to the black market to afford those in my lifetime. could kill for a PPG 6spd tranny with 4.444 final. oh well.

wow. sorry for the long post.

edit*******the GC is a coupe, but there is a WRX wagon (GG) in the fam.**************

Posted: **Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:07 am**

I bet if you stopped smoking for like.. a day

you would save enough money

haha just messin

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:41 am**

you know i did that once........ended up with the s13.

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:29 pm**

I have a set of Kaaz gears for sale. 1400obo without the mainshaft ($500 shipped). They are the solution to the weak gears of the US trannies.

Problems with the center section are that the helical gears are subject to thrust forces. I've been looking for someone who can copy the idler shaft but with a straight cut gearset rather than the helical stepper set. It'll whine all the time but it will make the RWD conversion sleves more worthwhile.

Or you can wait until I get my Z33 6-speed tranny in and I'll copy my bellhousing for you

Ask martymartymarty.net, you need to get in on this:

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:13 pm**

That beast is sooooooooooooo fun to drive. Thanks again Ranlet!!!!

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:00 pm**

martymartymarty.net wrote:That beast is sooooooooooooo fun to drive. Thanks again Ranlet!!!!

thats u driving it in that pic, right? looks like ur helmet

Posted: **Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:03 pm**

struka wrote:
martymartymarty.net wrote:That beast is sooooooooooooo fun to drive. Thanks again Ranlet!!!!
thats u driving it in that pic, right? looks like ur helmet

yeah it does. Thats awesome. Looks like it'd be fun to drive.

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2006 8:59 am**

struka wrote:
martymartymarty.net wrote:That beast is sooooooooooooo fun to drive. Thanks again Ranlet!!!!
thats u driving it in that pic, right? looks like ur helmet

Yep

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2006 9:01 am**

Here's a few more. With Me, Ranlet, Yancey, and Hachi Bill in it lol

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2006 5:05 pm**

from what i have read and heard you want the PPG gearset. straight cut gears or dogset crashers. PPG has it all. pricey as hell tho.

as for my suby drifter-supposedly the Watanabe RWD sleeve housed in the RA STi gears works amazingly. so just need to get the ARC radiator and the Watanabe sleeve then maybe an ApexiPowerFC.......then its on. AWD drift kills my front tires after one night. now i cant drive the GC in any rain or i hydroplane everywhere.

martymartymarty.net-hell yeah. suby driftin FTW!

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2006 10:56 pm**

WTF, all the pics I can find are of martymartymarty.net driving...
Thie one is the best I can find of me at the helm, but that's about .5 seconds into the slide (without reaching full angle yet):

I linked the whole course and got some pretty serious angle later in the day, but I guess the cameras were already away.

There are some funny nuances to driving the low power/large wheelbase wagon, but if you're ever in town you're welcome to take it for a whip.

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:37 pm**

martymartymarty.net wrote:Here's a few more. With Me, Ranlet, Yancey, and Hachi Bill in it lol

was there trailmix involved?

Posted: **Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:48 pm**

struka wrote:
martymartymarty.net wrote:Here's a few more. With Me, Ranlet, Yancey, and Hachi Bill in it lol
was there trailmix involved?

And carpet munching!!! on the roof rack

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Thats fuckin pimp, thats a pretty stacked wagon man for sliding

Posted: **Tue Aug 01, 2006 1:13 am**

I need to bring some sleeping bags for the roof and some "I spy" games for those in the back seats.

I did bring 2 haybails to the event and took home 4 additional tires with the roof rack. God I love that thing!

Posted: **Tue Aug 01, 2006 9:03 am**

struka wrote:
martymartymarty.net wrote:Here's a few more. With Me, Ranlet, Yancey, and Hachi Bill in it lol
was there trailmix involved?

it's a Legacy, not an Outback, GAAAWD