Building the Boosted Smurf

[psulja]

As expected when raising the boost, I exploded my diff last night. Rolled into it in 2nd gear, once I hit full boost there was a pop followed by many marbles in the diff. Towed it home at midnight and installed my 3.9 torsen today.

Might take carnage photos tomorrow when I split the 1.6 diff open.

The na6 diff lasted an entire 900 miles after boost lol. And less than 24 hours after raising the boost to 13.5psi.

[—Martin—]

The torsen in my old '96 lasted many thousands of miles and I was running 15psi, so you should be good to go now.

[psulja]

That's good! I want to raise the boost a bit more just before putting it away for winter but I think I'll wait until I can get on a dyno before going any higher. Pretty much want to raise boost until I'm just under 250whp.

[I<3flippyheadlights]

You're nuts, man. I can't believe the diff even lasted 900 miles with the way you drive (which is awesome driving)

If I ever go to Canada, you must give me a ride.

[psulja]

This happened Saturday night before plaza:



Sketchiest tow truck driver, took him 3 hours to find me. Didn't even know how to use the race ramps to get the car on the flat bed.



Got the car up in the air and swapped in my 3.9 torsen rear end Sunday morning.



Went out and tested the new diff. If I ever get the video's from Ceshan I'll post them.



Carnage:

[I<3flippyheadlights]

Oh 1.6 diff, we barely knew thee. But you were a good diff. A diff, that shall be missed.

[theothersawyer]

Damn, that's some crazy carnage!

[psulja]

So the track day got rain delayed to today. Was very happy with my results. First pass was a 13.6X, but was only boost around 11psi.



Adjusted boost a bit to 13psi, just below what I was running the night we were tuning for more boost.

PB, last run, didn't want to do anymore runs after it because I beat the guy I was trying to beat and didn't expect to even hit the 12's today. Plus nothing broke and I still needed to drive the car back home 200km.

12.83@108.44


Very happy with this since I couldn't get tires in time and I was running the stupid stretched 195's that aren't sticky at all. Going to get drag radials for our season opener next year and try to hit low 12's.

Was having a lot of issues with wheel hop at the beginning of the day but was playing around with my launch a bit and in the last run I actually took off pretty smoothly.

Video is currently uploading.

[psulja]

[WASABI]

Wow, that's awesome! Car looks good too!

[psulja]

Thanks Jim

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[Gene Rodriguez]

As expected when raising the boost, I exploded my diff last night. Rolled into it in 2nd gear, once I hit full boost there was a pop followed by many marbles in the diff. Towed it home at midnight and installed my 3.9 torsen today.

Might take carnage photos tomorrow when I split the 1.6 diff open.

The na6 diff lasted an entire 900 miles after boost lol. And less than 24 hours after raising the boost to 13.5psi.

i have a spare msm torsen with the axles in the garage

[psulja]

So not much to update in here as the season winds down. Currently planning out exactly where I'm going with the car and it may be a long road in front of me.

Took the car out to Woodward, you Michigan people will know what I'm talking about, and had some fun. It was kind of cold since and not too many people were out since its the end of the season. Got to run an S2k, modded del sol, 2013 subaru wrx, e36 m3, r32 GTR, and possibly some other cars that I don't really remember lol. It was supposed to be a night of racing Cobalt's but they all backed out when they heard i ran 12's. Anyways, that list of cars there is added to the kill list of this car All of that was done on around 13.5psi. Not posting any of those videos here though.

The car might have one more night of fun left in it for the season before I park it in my garage and start pulling parts off it again.

Also, got my tombstone radio surround with a radio blanking plate, and ordered some little things like window guides and the antenna delete from ROADSTERTECH lol. Going to start ordering some more parts in the next month or so to keep me busy over winter.

[RoadsterTech]

Retro modern? (Insert chain yank here)

[psulja]

oooo shiiiit... editing meow, good catch.. just put a retromodern sticker on the inside of my trunk lid, think thats where it came from