Build thread/running log of my E28? Guess I can do eet.
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Update kids!
Picking up a rear diff from Zach and Chris this weekend (sawzall fun to be had)
Decided our 60lb street sign I "made" would make an awesome skid plate (gunna double it up on it's self)
And a current state of the E28, (Sitting at the back of my driveway sulking like the broken car she is)
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in my experiences before the 5spd swap, you either need to keep it in "1" and do a low-speed throttle oversteer type drift, or keep it in "2" with enough speed to where you can hit full throttle without kicking down to 1st gear when you need to apply throttle.
The trans upshifting when you lift off the throttle when in drive can really screw things up.
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So over the course of last weekend (sunday to be specific) I drove from Mad-town to Colgate (zachari's house) to snatch another 3.25 rear diff for the E28. I get yelled at by everyone for not taking enough pictures, so pictures and video are to be had.
Jake snapped this photo of me under the E28, cutting half shafts in the snow!
After that half shaft was cut, we packed up our cars, put everything back in the garage. And headed to the walmart in Germantown. To test drive Nick's E46 328CI. Thing was awesome, needs some work. But is an awesome car. Hoping to snag that thing real soon.
Fastforward about an hour, we're heading to Jake's shop in Waukesha.
Here we pulled the diff cover off to inspect it.
All looks good! Mashed teeth or obscure objects in the diff.
Then we gave it a final bath of brake kleen, then soaked up as much as we could of brake kleen & the remaining diff fluid.
Then, we got to talking about Jake's E30 on the lift hovering over one of the Semi's. Got to play with his hydro samari sword E-brake. Thing is titties! I also want his front seats!
Enough boring shit, let's get to metal porn. I had joked around with Jake about welding my rear diff. He was down for welding it, so that was next on the agenda.
Rotate the output flanges 180 degree's and do it all over again. You wanna get both sides of the spider gears.
Fast forward to Monday, I had driven back to Madison. Then upstate to my shop in Green Lake. (Hi rowley, sorry I didn't say hi. )
I wanted to get all the rust scale, and other random nonsense off this thing, because honestly, it was fucking caked in who the hell knows what. And had been sitting in the dirt for a minute. So I started off with the tool shown below (Thing does a fucking NUMBER to rust chunks, but doesn't gouge the parts which is a plus! Then I wire wheeled it to get all the finer stuff off.
After whire wheeling it.
After that, I broke all the Allen bolts lose, but left them threaded in for the time being, because the half shafts make awesome carrying handles of this heavy chunk of metal.
After that, I'm gunna prime/paint it, to prevent further damage, and painted diff's look cool as fuck. Then drop my old one, and install this one!
Then I snapped this really shitty panoramic photo looking out on my farm. this is the view from inside my shop. This shot would have looked cooler with the race sled, and the quad sitting out in the field, but fuck that. I'd rather ride them then let them sit in the field!
That skid plate will be sweet though! Especially from low camera angles
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