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Sucks you blew the trans. I saw you asking about a trans on GD and was gunna email you to see if your 002 was for sale. My pops needs a fresher one in his car.
Whoa wait, that little tube is the torsion tube? I thought I was looking at an A-arm mount. Way to small of tube and seriously lacking in bracing. There is a LOT of stress in a torsion tube, I've cut out and replaced a few........
How long before the video's out of him pulling you at 25lbs of boost? Hopfully your top was down?
Oh and those gussets are the reason the tube cracked. Cut them out and it will live a little longer. The real problem is you lacking triangulation somewhere in the structure allowing the tube to flex a lot........
Nope, not the issue. Car should be ready to go tomorrow. Long process. In the course of swapping tranny it was discovered that the axles were too long for 002. They needed 27 1/2" for the new narrower tranny and come to find out they had 27 1/2" on the old wide one. Course because they were too long they were mushroomed, etc. New axles. The car on hard impacts would "splay" too wide. The reason it was cracked on the right and not the left is that the tranny / motor was not 100% centered. Both of those issues have been resolved. Will still be reworking torsion tube area in summer and possibly address any triangulation, etc at that time. To install tranny it required that motor and tranny be raised. That resulted in cross members being cut to allow for height and engine cage being cut in a likewise fashion. New motor mounts, etc. Because some area was lost under the rear deck lid of the body, power steering pump has been relocated. Because tranny went taller, fuel pump has been relocated. Good thing I bought this car with the full expectation of getting it sorted out. Will have pictures later. We are one step closer to having it sorted.
You'll be one cool dude when it's all sorted out. How you like duning with near zero forward visibiliity after a car with near unlimited forward vis? LOL!!! My car now is horrible forward vis. New car will have different body/sight lines to improve on that issue for sure.