What did you do today to your 3/S?

actually you don't need to multiply by the gear ratio, the ratio is applied on the driveshaft side, not the engine side.

However, what I'm more concerned about is bending moments that might occur because of the missing trans mount. Since the weight will be supported mainly by the front and rear mounting points, the rocking motion of the engine from the passenger to the driver side due to a bumpy road or cornering is a real concern. Unless you have a solid driver side mount, that is a shitload of stress you see at those joints as the rubber slack is taken up at the driver mount. let me draw a sketch, hang on.

wow this has gotten a bit off topic. Well, my driver aws rack boot is leak like a siv. So, gonna drain it, then wrap a new rag around it for fri at the track. lol need to do aws delete soon.

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Originally Posted by i3igpete

actually you don't need to multiply by the gear ratio, the ratio is applied on the driveshaft side, not the engine side.

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Walk me through this a bit because I don't see how the torque that's applied at the tires/ground isn't applied equally/opposite to drive train and ultimately to the only part of the drive train that's constrained.

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Originally Posted by Sin'sVr4

wow this has gotten a bit off topic.

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There is no topic. That's the point of this fun, meandering thread :p

It's easier to think in terms of free body diagrams. Consider a block with a crankshaft inside floating in space. If we bolt the flywheel to a wall, it makes sense that any torque output form the engine will be spent spinning the block the opposite direction. This is the "perfect" case when it comes to engine recoil - in reality, because we are accelerating a vehicle, the actual recoil will be less.

just a disclaimer - i'm not bashing nelson at all. I just wish he would let someone DD with this thing for a bit to test it out before making a massive group buy.

yeah I agree that bumps on the road which have enough force to twist the end points are likely to be the biggest problem, but for $650 why not... all else fails I go back to poly mounts, besides no-one is forcing you to buy it, there will be enough people trying from the first buy to figure out if it's going to break or not.

Yes I think the plate will be more rigid than the stock stuff with solids, I agree that there will be a lot of strain, it'd be nice to see a titanium part with poly's to absorb something like a suspension bottom out.

I'm not sure how much of an effect this has, but the engine is also no longer tieing the left and right frame rails together.

Ordered my message plates again, this time my message shouldn't be denied.

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then undid it.

relowered, and rotated my tires.

_isiah

Minor things all the way from the UK!

Well, started like any other project 7:30 on a Sunday morning...

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Out with the old an in with the new ...

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Twin plate goodness!

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Now, this is where it all goes a bit wrong... the 'i'll just do one more thing' :D :D

As of this evening not sure if I'm repairing and upgrading or breaking it! Hahaha! (before anyone asks I'm not breaking it! )

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Sidemounts gone and hopefully enough space for the FMIC - have an alloy rad to fit too... and the lower arms are being refurbished.. Need to sort out some electrics and also sort my US style mk4 lights to go on my Mk2 lowers...

The FMIC ... Pit Road M - Type R

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Why when changing little things like a clutch... seems to lead onto MANY other things "while I'm there" :D

Hopefully back together soon with a bit of a new lease of life!

Paul

I finished swapping everything over to a 98/99 ECU. Started the car for the 1st time in 6 months last night, and it fired right up with my base map. Idle AFR's were lean, and my EVOScan data logs were wrong due to it reading the old data.xml, but its a start.