[TitaniumTT]

Plan A is to modify the slave cylinder to fit the RX8 bellhousing. The guys that I had spoken to built an adapter plate. Thier reasoning was that if the the slave ever failed, they could just buy a new slave and bolt it on. In looking at the bellhousing in the FC to begin with, I saw a problem with this. The bolts would be VERY difficult to get to. As you can see in the pic, it would shift the bolts farther forward, sure you could unbolt the plate, but I had a better idea. When slaves fail, they fail from seals. Very few times do the cylinders themselves go bad, so lets mod the fucking cylinder shall we?

Here we go, the bolt holes are close, but they won't work, the cylinder will extend too far and I was afraid of it leaking out.



So I went ahead and cut the ears off of the stock TII slave and jigged the thing up to where I thought it should be. Bolted on one of the cut off ears and tack welded the thing on. Then I took it off, finished off the welding being CAREFUL not to penetrate the cylinder to the point where it would effect the seal.




Bolted it back on and repeated for the forward facing ear.



Tranny all bolted up with the slave and a new starter. I searched and searched for a starter before I decided to go with one from autobone. I know I know I fucking HATE autobone but.... all the other starters that I found even with my wholesale accounts were in the $2-300 range with a limited warranty. From 90 days for the most expensive bosch, to a 3 year for the napa unit. Theis POS from Auto-bone was something like $120 with a lifetime warranty. Now, I'm ignoring the Lifetime warranty arguement from Napa... everything that I have bought for my truck with a lifetime warranty from napa has failed, and failed FAST. Hopefully, this starter lasts a little longer than the average 7 months that the LIFETIME Napa parts seem to last. Time will tell