A purists nightmare - E46 drift build

Tkuhn

UPDATE.

Pulled both axles and the diff out last night. Which I'm starting to dislike how fast I can do it lmao. 15 minutes and all three parts were out, aside from jacking up the car.

So there are a few reasons for pulling all those out. Number 1 being that the diff needs to be resealed. Number 2 is that after I had gotten it up on stands again I was checking all the suspension and found that all 4 of the inner heims joints on my rear arms were worn and causing alot of play. So I ordered some new cheomoly ones from McMaster-carr. I also got those installed last night.

Now to add to the bad news, I originally put the car up on all 4 jackstands to solve the drivetrain clunking noise. And I found it.... the u joint has alot of play. Luckily I have a friend getting rid of a 330 driveshaft for cheap and it has a good u joint. While the rest of that driveshaft needs parts (csb and rear cv) I plan to swap the front half from the new driveshaft to my existing driveshaft which has a new csb from not long ago and a good rear cv.

Hopefully my plan works out....

Tkuhn

Update.

Pulled apart 2 of my weds cerebus 2's to re lip them. I wish I could fit bigger lips but 1) I dont have the fender space and 2) I'd like to stay under a 10" wide wheel. So that being said I went from the original 2 inch lips to a 3 inch lip. What really kills me is the 6.5 inch barrels.

New on the left and original on the right.

And here's both completed.

Also pulled out my driveshaft.

My original one on the left and the one I picked up on the right.

The new to me driveshaft seems to have a better front half than my current one so my hope is that it will atleast last me for the rest of the season. The u-joint on my old one was really starting to make some noise.

And here is the 2 shafts made into one. I kept my original rear portion because the cv and the csb are still good.

Now I should be able to start putting the car back togeather!

Jdesign

Wheels look much better.

straight6pwr

hopefully the balance of those two unmatched driveshaft halves is acceptable!

Tkuhn

straight6pwr said:

hopefully the balance of those two unmatched driveshaft halves is acceptable!

It seemed to be driving at 40ish. We will see tonight as I will be headed up to shawano in a few hours.

Tkuhn

Made it up to the track last night

So I'm pretty sure the driveshaft has a slight vibration at higher speeds. Not 100% sure if that is me over analyzing or actually true though lmao. We will see what the weekend holds ‍️

Tkuhn

ClubFR Jam was rad.

It seems the driveshaft held up fine although I do feel like I need to get that sorted out. Also when putting my SSRs back on the rear for the drive home I noticed that there was grease on the inside of them, wellllll turns out the left outer axle leaked on the drive up lmao.

And I apparently drifted on it all day like that ‍️, so I'm glad it held up.

Waiting to see some media come through but here's some pics from the pits and a video of Sam and I.

VID_232440312_062101_435.mp4

Tkuhn

OH! ALSO, the new 3.38 diff was amazing! I apparently didnt know that i was missing it with the old 3.46. Although i know it's not much of a change it was just enough to keep the car off limiter

B C

Wow!

very cool to see both cars matching/together and drifting in tandem. Im not saying you guys should marry eachother but if you did i’d totally get it.

Tkuhn

B C said:

Wow!

very cool to see both cars matching/together and drifting in tandem. Im not saying you guys should marry eachother but if you did i’d totally get it.

Hahaha that was our idea is having them look similar yet different.

Jdesign

I have sound!!! I can't believe I haven't made it out there yet to watch you guys shred.

The cars look so good together.

_Wackster

Sorry to hear about the unbalanced driveshaft man, hopefully something can be figured out with that!

The videos are tite, this thread is tite.

Subbed.

Tkuhn

Jdesign said:

I have sound!!! I can't believe I haven't made it out there yet to watch you guys shred.

The cars look so good together.

You gotta come out! Theres 2 more events this year.

Jdesign

Tkuhn said:

You gotta come out! Theres 2 more events this year.

What are the dates? I will clear my calendar.

Tkuhn

Jdesign said:

What are the dates? I will clear my calendar.

Sept. 28 and 29th and October 26th and 27th

Jdesign

Tkuhn said:

Sept. 28 and 29th and October 26th and 27th

I marked DD78. October I wont be available.

Tkuhn

Some media coverage from ClubFR jam 2019

i_love_cars

love the photos

Jdesign

So good

Tkuhn

Not much new with the car as of now. Replaced the left axle again before DD76. Which was due to my own dumbassery, the outer joint was leaking grease from me using a persuader tonget it in the hub against my better judgement, and the cup bent allowing the grease to escape.

Anywayssss.

The event went well, my first few runs I thought I heard a clunking in the rear end but it was inconsistent and ended up being my 2x4 e-brake and a beer cap ‍️

Also @Sam_Holzmann and I finally touched tips, which was bound to happen with how close we get to eachother. Luckily there was no major damage. My bumper ejecto-ed as designed (3 small zip ties with the intent to break under pressure and then my bash bar bent in a bit. Which was easily bent back.

@Jdesign was in Sam's car when it happened even

Here's a pic of the "damage" the bash bar was already bent back before this pic.