mikey

I promise not to be horribly hung over this time and on time! Yeah sorry about that. Me and Pais are staying in Ha Hei for the night now.

Better late than never, I'M IN!

Ummmm.... THIS IS AWESOME.

Nevermind....

Does anyone have a bearing separator I can borrow for a night? Like this fella: I'm supposed to be going to Hampton Downs this Sat but one of my bearings just shat the bed.

Somebody left it in my letterbox with an Oldschool card. I was pretty sure it was you winkface! Btw, your trip looked aceness.

I <3 Miley.

Yeah, the adapters seem to be the go. Way easier than finding the right companion flanges by the sounds. So I'll measure everything up a couple more times and then make it happen.

Bummer. I'll try and research other companion flanges with 25spline and 3x2 CV's. Cool, good to know. If companion flanges are impossible to find then this might be the go.

Oh, good call. Sounds like 280zx companion flanges will definitely work, they fit the 25 spline stub axles on the early 240 but have the 3x2 CV bolt pattern. Otherwise surely one of those other options will work. Sweet!

So I bought a Nismo LSD with some shortened axles from an S15. After doing some measurements I think I can make an adapter to go from the four bolt companion flange on my hubs to the 3x2 bolt CV bolt pattern and if I make it around 25mm think it'll put the CV's in the middle of their range. This is a shot of the axles I have Am thinking I can make some adapters like this Have you any thoughts or feelings on this tomfoolery?!

Are these TC rods certable? Looks like they've taken stock rods, cut and welded a threaded sleeve on. If they are, ima buy them.

So this happened. I'm not sure what's going on. These are the facts: I don't have spark I can connect to the ECU with an ODB tool There are no DTC's The fly-by-wire throttle doesn't seem to be reading anything, which I think is unusual. It has stuttered a little bit for the first 30 seconds the last few times I've started it After work tonight it stuttered quite a bit for about a km then died. I thought it was out of gas. I have fuel pressure at the regulator in the engine bay. I'm at a bit of a loss so far. But am shattered so hopefully it'll come to me in my sleep!

So I bought a driveshaft loop but I've just realised I have two dirty big resonators in the way. Thusly: What's a boy to do? Shit's goan get messy innit.

My tacho is working ZOMG! ProZac sent me a spare stepper motor and I happened to be off sick yesterday when the courier arrived so I spent the next three hours stripping the guts out of the tacho and replacing it with the stepper and the worlds simplest circuit board. I wrote a simple little program and she's a good un. Finally!

I just kinda fell into PIC's because we used them at an old job for things. I am used to them now and I like that I can get them for free just by requesting samples from the Microchip site. Plus I have a couple of programmers and that. I just had a quick squizz at some STM32's. It'd be damn nice to have 32 bit registers and they've got heaps of features. Way more powerful than the baseline PIC's I've been using. But now I have a bunch of questions Looks like they have a 8Mhz internal oscillator, do you use that for some projects or always use an external one? What chip do you use for smaller projects which only need around 8 I/O's? Are there any in DIP packages? Do you need a fancy programmer for them? Is there a free C compiler? Thanks man

HUZZAH! I've gotten my speedo working. Basically I stripped the guts out of the stock speedo and put two stepper motors inside, put a hall sensor next to a diff flange, then I made some electronic thingys to measure the speed picked up by the sensor and move the motors in the speedo. Like so... This is the motor I used for the odometer This is the type of motor I used for the needle This is not my car but I basically did the same thing as this, sensor picks up the capscrews as they fly past the sensor: My hack circuit board: The processor is a PIC16F628A and it has two ld239 motor divers (one for each of the motors). The sensor is a Honeywell 1GT101DC. It all works pretty well. I was a shocked as you! Today I also bought some smaller tires, R888 245/45/16, clearance is touch and go with the flares, fingers crossed.

Ahh, I just checked, and the current size I have is 225/50 (not 60). So the diameter difference between them and 245/45's is only 4.5mm so should be sweet! Might be the way forward.

It is normal yeah, although I have pretty bad toe-in on one side too. One day I'll get adjustable control arms. I think we've got a go-pro at work I can pinch for the upcoming Hampton track day, so you can all laugh. TWO WEEKS TIME!! OMG

Tee hee hee! My first actual skid. Ever. Dem skids is fun huh?

Being a shithead. So much rev-limiter! After the above hooliganism it was time for new tires and go a bit wider. The old ones were 225 60 R16, so I tried 255 50 R16 semi slicks, which looked baddass but they'd foul on the flares. So I think I'll try 245 50 R16, but can't get those semi's in that size so will have to just be a street tire. I'm still not sure they'll fit either, so I may have to go to a 235! There's bugger all options in 16x9.5 really.

Good call, although maybe I'll get my cert before I smash the diff to bits.

You make a valid point. This will happen.

HAHA It is a bit weird to be at this stage. I dont really have anything else coming up worth posting about. It does feel like it's almost done. Strange.......

Nah not sussed the tacho yet, but yeah I am gonna put a stepper in and be done with it. Should be pretty simple. I just checked out Malcom's thread, good reading. I'm copying him and I'm gonna use the same speed sensor for my speedo, just ordered it from RS Online. Thanks for the tip.