TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[TitaniumTT]

LAME! I'll have ~2500 miles on the engine so we should be going for the 8k full boost see if we can get to 400RWHP.

Didn't get the 6-spd done. I pulled apart the FE 6-spd and a bag of parts fell out of the extension housing I pulled apart the "other" 6-spd and went to put the FE main drive gear on the "others" input shaft and the clutch cover/main input bearings won't line up using the FE's main drive gear and the "others" main shaft and countershaft. That was the whole plan and it fell apart because of an 1/8" difference in length Apparently the clutch cover depth is different between the two.

So I'm basically back to square one with two 6-spd trannies disassembled on my work benches. I'm going to rebuild the FE box using the FE's countershaft, main drive gear, main shaft, clutch cover and intermediate housing. Then see if I can get the "other" trannies exentsion housing machined to fit the FE's driveshaft bushing and rear seal. The FE's mainshaft fits the TII driveshaft while the "other's" fits an N/A driveshaft. So I can't use the "other" trannies extension housing with the FE's mainshaft unless I can A) find a driveshaft shop that has a yoke with the OD of the N/A driveshaft and the spline diameter and count of the TII's driveshaft or B) get the "other" extension housing machined to fit the FE's driveshaft bushing and rear seal. Not to mention there is a 3/8" difference in length but with a proper yoke, that's not going to be a problem.

The other option is of course to use the FE's extension housing and relocate the shifter with a fuckton of cutting and welding. Which in all honsty is probably what is going to happen now using the "other" trannies shift rod. That would be the cheapest route to go in the future if we decide to offer these becuase you would only need to buy one trans and one shift rod as opposed to two trannies and meld them together.

Or I can drop everything off with Dave and say, make it work.

I still need to get the car set for Thursday so the tranny is going to take backburner till Saturday, which REALLY pisses me off. I wanted that thing done for the last few auto-x's that I will hopefully be able to attend. Hopefully I can make 4. Two somewhat long (2'nd and 3rd gear) and two short - just like the one where my best time came leaving the car in 1st the whole time. Not to mention I really didn't want to be dropping that tranny again. I had to get the Type-R box on the ground to get to the T/O bearing and I wanted to put the 6-spd back in. Le sigh, oh well. I still have 6-7 weeks to get this tranny crap sorted out and mounted before the car is off the road. I REALLY want to get the thing installed and running just in case I need to weld onto the car for mounting BEFORE I fix all the rust and undercoat it. Oh yeah, my car is being stripped down to the bare chassis and tossed on a rotisserie starting in early Nov. List is to
1) fix all the undercarriage rust
2) prime then Herculine the underside
3) Lizzard Skin the interior
4) A litte re-wiring on the interior
5) Belly Pan
6) Re-enforce the front bumper
7) Re-enforce the hood
8) Windshield washers
and it all MUST be done by X-mas becuase I will hopefully be re-painting an FB that attended last years DGRR and will be debuting new skin for '10. Also need to build an Auto-x trailer so my buddy can drive my truck to DGRR '10 with the trailer in tow an loaded so I can slap on the race rubber to drive the dragon

Not to mention the deck on a 21' boat that I'll hopefully be pulling to replace a gas tank, and then there's always the TII LSX conversion and total re-paint that we want to get done for DGRR as well......... BUSY winter!