Son of a..... Broke My Primary Drive Gear

[82Shafty]

Mike, I have a 93 coupe that is laying down 427 to the rear tire on 8lbs of boost, so I understand your affection with fast stangs.

As far as the shafty gear set maybe look into cryo treatment if you are looking to keep on dishing out the power.

I took out the 82 1100 this past weekend and it has a heck of a lot more torque than my 750. I felt the same way when I lay'd first gear by simply twisting the throttle back half way; I was like sweeeeeeeet.

I was also going to say that perhaps your backlash was a tad on the loose side

[Deesel]

Too old for wheelies at age 50?? I hope I dont get old that fast! Im only 34 and Im still getting better at them- on my shafty, no less. I thought getting older just meant you shouldnt crash as much.
I too have had tranny problems, but its a price Im willing to pay for a good time. I fixed the tranny once - lasted about 3000 miles. Bought 2 more used engines for $150 each, one lasted 8000 miles and the other is still going, 5000 miles of abuse so far. It seems once you break gears and stuff the case is never the same and the strength is not what it was even with new parts. This is why I choose low mileage bargain engines.
Im with you Turbo Mike- wheelies, burnouts, excessive horsepower and speed are essential the enjoyment of my life.
Be safe but have fun!

[rustybronco]

300ZX ... I completely toasted one (twice in a row) with my diesel Superduty Excursion (family aboard at the time)! Man was THAT fun -- I really felt sorry for the guy, embarassment and all!!

All I can say is: Superchips makes a VERY nice tuner!! Alone in the truck I've managed to pull a 0-60 time of 5.92 (with the A/C on) ... in an 8000 pound truck!!:twisted::twisted:

Stock the truck pulls 0-60 times in the mid to high 8's.

Enjoy!

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Remember the head gaskets Steve.
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[Planecrazy]

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Remember the head gaskets Steve.
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Superchips prides themselves on making what they refer to as "safe" power. As a result their tuners have (thankfully) proven to be pretty reliable in the "engine durability" department. As a consequence there ARE other programmers that make more dramatic power than mine, but I don't mind the trade-off.

Also, a lot of the problems that plagued the earlier 6L diesels ('03's in particular) were ironed out on the later ones. My truck is an '05 (really a late '04 in disguise), and (knock on wood) so far it's been bulletproof.

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Regards,

[joejeweler]

Well,......maybe ya have to kiss a car windshield and become one with the pavement to have the wheelie bug permanantly removed from you!

Oh,......DON'T even ask to borrow any bike of mine,.........with the abuse you're willing to shell out! :-D

Getting 3,000 miles out of a tranny is,......well,......SICK!

Low milage used engines lasting only 8,000 miles,......DAMN,........these things were designed and built for longevity!

Why not just get a 500cc or 650cc on/off road and have at it. My '79 Honda XL500S comes up on it's own sometimes,......just so much torque. The 650 probably more so though i haven't tried one yet. These are light and you can go at it all day and shouldn't have any problems.

Riding these old bikes this way,......is like taking your Cadallic out for a day of off roading.

Ah well,........at least that explains why i sometimes can't find the parts i need,...............

...............you guys are buying them all up and destroying them!

Too old for wheelies at age 50?? I hope I dont get old that fast! Im only 34 and Im still getting better at them- on my shafty, no less. I thought getting older just meant you shouldnt crash as much.
I too have had tranny problems, but its a price Im willing to pay for a good time. I fixed the tranny once - lasted about 3000 miles. Bought 2 more used engines for $150 each, one lasted 8000 miles and the other is still going, 5000 miles of abuse so far. It seems once you break gears and stuff the case is never the same and the strength is not what it was even with new parts. This is why I choose low mileage bargain engines.
Im with you Turbo Mike- wheelies, burnouts, excessive horsepower and speed are essential the enjoyment of my life.
Be safe but have fun!

[Turbo Mike]

Im with you Turbo Mike- wheelies, burnouts, excessive horsepower and speed are essential the enjoyment of my life.
Be safe but have fun!

I really couldnt have said it better. Its what I enjoy doing and happen to be pretty good at... life wouldnt be the same without doing what I do with the toys. Anyone can wheelie an on/off road or a newer jap bike.... it takes some courage and skill to wheelie a shafted GS1100... thats half the fun lol

[5RON5]

What a very very nice car!!!!!!!!! Beautiful!~~~~~~~~

[jonr]

Turbo Mike,

Here's 1/2 of what you need: bevel gear and drive shaft

You might ask the seller if he's got the matching beveled gear. If he has not split the cases and does not intend to part out the lower end, then you have a problem.

Good luck-
J

[Nessism]

Those twin-turbo ZX's are VERY sweet!! It's not that I don't like the new Z ... there's just something missing in its styling, and of course the new one is "dog slow!"

The new Z-car uses the VQ35 engine which is one of the best naturally aspired engines ever made - check out Ward's Auto World's Best Engines listing if you don't belive me.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3165/is_1_39/ai_97179292/pg_8

NISSAN MOTOR CO. LTD. 3.5L DOHC V-6

NISSAN 3.5L V-6

The Steelers of the 1970s. The Forty-Niners of the 1980s. The Yankees of any decade. Michael Schumacher. The Red Wings.

Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.'s "VQ" V-6 is beginning to approach the point where we're comfortable mentioning it in the same company. A dynasty.

Except for the VQ, no single engine, regardless of changes from one generation to the next, has amassed a string of nine consecutive Ward's 10 Best Engines awards. Although almost all mainstream automotive engines are designed for a long production run, precious few ever enjoy benchmark status, even when they're the newest engine in the market. Nissan's VQ continues as a benchmark nine years after its launch.

It's a remarkable feat, readers, one that bears re-emphasis: the very first VQ available in the U.S., a 3L DOHC V-6, was a winner in Ward's first 10 Best Engines competition in 1995. In the eight subsequent years that include this 2003 win, a VQ V-6 has won a Best Engines spot every time. We like to believe it was divine insight nine years ago when we identified the original 3L VQ as something special - but in truth, it was hard NOT to know that engine was special. Nissan engineers got it right - incredibly, resolutely right - from the very beginning, the day they signed off on the final design for what was to become the best V-6 engine the auto industry's ever seen.

Today, although Nissan has dropped the original 3L in favor of the brawnier 3.5L VQ, the engine family's unique qualities remain: an acute attention to detail, starting with microfinished internals and a goal to seriously reduce reciprocating mass. At its launch, the 3L VQ weighed an astounding 108 lbs. (49 kg) less than the iron-block 3L V-6 it replaced - some 20 lbs. (9 kg) was shaved from the upper engine alone - and the design reduced friction losses by 20%.

The VQ has been improved several times since that groundbreaking original, to the point that Nissan's 3.5L VQ still is the V-6 the competition wishes it had created. Although we're convinced a noticeable portion of the original 3L engine's supernatural smoothness and NVH has been sacrificed in the '02-model boring and stroking to 3.5L, the VQ remains a convincing combination of power, broad torque delivery and refinement.

We're still flabbergasted at how easy it was for pragmatic Nissan engineers - convinced that the sweet 3L VQ wasn't enough for the power-hungry U.S. market - to abandon their much-acclaimed baby and punch it out to 3.5L.

The "new" 3.5L VQ is incredibly versatile, currently being used in seven different horsepower ratings and four torque specifications. The company uses it in no less than nine distinct vehicles - everything from the all-new Murano SUV (see p.51) to the muscular 350Z, with three upscale Infiniti-badged models to boot.

[Turbo Mike]

Turbo Mike,

Here's 1/2 of what you need: bevel gear and drive shaft

You might ask the seller if he's got the matching beveled gear. If he has not split the cases and does not intend to part out the lower end, then you have a problem.

Good luck-
J

Dont have to split the cases... take the shifter/cover off and 4 bolts and the whole drive gear assy comes right out. Dont even have to pull the driveshaft.....

[Turbo Mike]

VQ35.

Thats nice and all but you ever drive one? In stock form the car is totally gutless. Sure its quick, but you dont even feel it, you have to watch the speedo to make sure you're accelerating. The whole driving experience sux. Pedal feel is like playing cruzin USA, no road feedback in the steering, and the ride is far from feeling like the "true sports car" its supposed to be.

Secondly the tranny, driveshaft, and rear axles are made out of glass. One or two real hard shifts or clutch drops, you're replacing something.

My buddy sean has an orange one. He babies it. Lets other people hammer it every so often for fun. Already killed a left axle and now 3rd gear just went.

Another buddy, derek, bought one brand new. At 44k miles, one of the camshafts disintegrated and locked the motor up and totally destroyed it.

Both my own personal driving experience, its lack of "Z car" style, and its complete lack of driveline toughness, I really dont see how you say its a "good" car. Whoopdy do, the motor is rated good when its brand new by some magazine.

[Arkaloid]

Turbo Mike,

Here's 1/2 of what you need: bevel gear and drive shaft

You might ask the seller if he's got the matching beveled gear. If he has not split the cases and does not intend to part out the lower end, then you have a problem.

Good luck-
J

He does not have it. i bought it the other day for mine.

[Nessism]

Thats nice and all but you ever drive one? In stock form the car is totally gutless. Sure its quick, but you dont even feel it, you have to watch the speedo to make sure you're accelerating. The whole driving experience sux. Pedal feel is like playing cruzin USA, no road feedback in the steering, and the ride is far from feeling like the "true sports car" its supposed to be.

Secondly the tranny, driveshaft, and rear axles are made out of glass. One or two real hard shifts or clutch drops, you're replacing something.

My buddy sean has an orange one. He babies it. Lets other people hammer it every so often for fun. Already killed a left axle and now 3rd gear just went.

Another buddy, derek, bought one brand new. At 44k miles, one of the camshafts disintegrated and locked the motor up and totally destroyed it.

Both my own personal driving experience, its lack of "Z car" style, and its complete lack of driveline toughness, I really dont see how you say its a "good" car. Whoopdy do, the motor is rated good when its brand new by some magazine.

I never said it's a great car, I was just countering your comment that the "car is gutless" which implies the motor sucks - which it doesn't. And while I haven't driven a Z-car before, I've driven every other Nissan with the VQ variant engine, including the G35 coupe (sister car to the Z), and I can say that it IS a GREAT engine and it doesn't have any inherant weaknesses.

[Turbo Mike]

He does not have it. i bought it the other day for mine.

Damn damn damn.....

[SqDancerLynn1]

Keep & eye out on ebay another one will show up. The GS 1000/1100 are the same ?????? don't know. I do know The GS850 is different & will not fit the larger GS1000/1100