Yay, updates! Well not too new as I have just been too lazy to post because of work.
Lets continue, here is the pile of shit I bought to basically net me a brand spankin new rear end, albeit the differential included, ended up being a grand total of $1315 after labor and such. Every new OEM seal for the rear end, koyo bearings all around, and new center support among other things. Most of ya are probably like why the hell did you spend that much on a T series rear end. Well, because I can lol. It's lighter than any other option, I don't mind drums (constructing rear disk setup eventually), and it will take the abuse I will put through it.
Yay, tight, fresh, and will take a beating, just how I like it
The pattern came out great, new bearings, and a solid pinion spacer from Weir. Don't mind the color, dude ran out of black paint and I told him to spray it with whatever he had haha.
Popped the axles out and dropped them off to my buds shop to get the new bearings and races pressed on.
Dropped out my old 320k mile differential and cleaned the housing and gasket surfaces.
And here's the source of my horrid noise. LOL. It's not that bad.
Whoops.
And after some picture magic, everything is back together! Axles do not need to be trimmed on aftermarket LSDs.
Put the LSD sticker on the housing that came with the diff, makes the car have 5 more horsepowerzz
Then me and my buddy took the car out to the industrial and did figure 8's, clutching in while cornering for about 40 minutes, it was noisy at first, but was quiet as shit by the time we were done. Drove home, dumped the fluid, everything looked nice, filled it back up and have been driving it since with no issues. Let me say, HANDS DOWN, the LSD is the best mod I have EVER done to this car, the amount of grip I have cornering now is ridiculous, I can't get enough of it. The car is super predictable now, and will only slide if I make it slide or dive into a corner fast enough, and it is FUUUUUUN. If you are thinking of putting in a good LSD, just do it, you will not regret it what so ever. I seriously fell in love with my car all over again. PS: IF you ever think of getting the Xcessive Engineering tranny mount, DON'T, the vibration is hooooorrid on a 22RE, unless you want your teeth to fall out before you become senile. Swapped in a new stock rubber mount and smooth sailing from there.
Well for an end note, I ended up getting the Cube Speed short shifter from AUS, pretty neat, and good craftsmanship, installed it yesterday, drove with it today. Verdict: good buy, crisp shifts, really really short throw, like 2 inches of throw between 1-2 and so forth. That and it looks bad ass. Only grip about it is that it sits a little further forward that the stock shifter, but it's not so bad once you get used to it, just have to stretch your arm further than you normally would and my bucket seat doesn't help it's case at all either lol.
That's all for now folks, no idea what is planned next, maybe new tires and turbo
