GI: Affordable Helical LSD's for the G-series!!

[Hot_Wheels]

4 more days!!!

[Mellowness65]

tomorrow8)

[therieldeal]

dyno today... =o

[Dan [Sac]]

Blah, rain is forecast for tomorrow...looks like mother nature says "wait another week"...

[therieldeal]

weather.com says 0% till 10am, 10% from 10-11, and 30% from noon-6pm

still might turn out ok...

[FE3-323]

im tired of waiting & so is everyone else. this is getting way past old

[Dan [Sac]]

Um, ok? What do you suggest? I've put forth the cash and the effort, what else do you want? If I could control the weather I wouldn't be posting on CP, I'd be blackmailing people out of their sweet tax dollars in exchange for not flattening their puny villages with hurricanes.

[Hot_Wheels]

haha i never seen ryan seem angry. but yea um kay. go put some radials on it and go have at it!

[therieldeal]

its a race car... i'm pretty sure its not registered

[monoxidechild]

yea, its far from street legal. even where im at with no emmisions. lol.

[chief tool]

Surely another week isnt going to kill anyone.....**** happens

[yellow2000S/R]

I apologize that testing is taking so long - not a lot i can do about it at this point unfortunately.

Anyway, the diff is installed, and the transmission is installed in the car. He is supposed to be hitting the dyno today and the track tomorrow, as long as the weather is good tomorrow.

He's had the differential since February 2nd... its been 46 days?



Jan 27th: TheRielDeal claims we are looking at approx 2 months till we have LSDs in hand.

the group buy is technically over...
i'll find out the best way to go about things but you'll probably be best off just ordering one from their website in a couple months. they will be carrying these on the site for $650 plus shipping, plus the bolt kit. we're looking at roughly 2 months right now if testing goes well. 1 month for testing, 1 month for production.

February 2nd: Dan received the LSD

Alright, here are pics. The post office dropped the box at least several times in transit - the pics speak for themselves. Hopefully there is no damage.

Overall, the LSD looks good. The thread on the bolts is a little bit rough, but given that it was a last minute machined item I think that's acceptable. Hopefully the production units will be cleaned up.

Because I want to eliminate any source of possible user error, I will have a shop professionally assemble the gearbox to ensure a perfect fit. This may add a little bit of time to the equation, but if we're gonna go to the trouble of doing this, we'll do it right the first time.

February 14th: Dan says by the end of the week he should have trans dropped off at shop to get the LSD installed (I assume the end of week being the 20th)

I finally got a reply back from AUS about the PAR gears. They'll take 4-6 weeks to make (don't faint yet) so I'll have a gearbox assembled with stock gears for testing purposes. Since the LSD uses bolts for the ring gear that will make it easy to swap over to the PAR box once those goodies show up.

So, by the end of this week I should have the gearbox dropped off at a shop for the install and I hope to be on a dragstrip by the end of this month.

March 3rd: Dan claims he plans to do some testing March 14th

Picked up the transmission today. Install went smooth, the bolts heads did have to be machined down to ~7mm. Hope to put it up in the car this weekend, and if weather cooperates, to do some testing by the 14th.

March 6th: Dan questions what gear oil to use

Just one question, and I'm sure it's been answered in the 58 pages somewhere - is there a hard recommendation on the oil to run? I'm planning on using Royal Purple 75W90 for the stock setup with the MFLSD, then switch to NEO oil when the PAR-geared transmission is assembled.

March 11th: Dan claims car is ready to go... but wait! He suddenly has to dyno it on the 20th, why is this? He was supposed to be testing it in 3 days (the 14th). Now he is saying it should be tested March 21st

Car is up & ready to go but no dyno time is available until the 18th, so I've scheduled dyno for the 20th, with the testing to take place on the 21st. I'll be doing the alignment on the 19th. So to reiterate, the new scheduled test date is the 21st.

March 20th:

im tired of waiting & so is everyone else. this is getting way past old

March20th: Saying weather isn't going to allow testing tomorrow (the 21st), yet another delay?

Blah, rain is forecast for tomorrow...looks like mother nature says "wait another week"...

Day
PM Showers
High 61°F
Precip 60%
Wind: SSW 11 mph
Max. Humidity: 69%
UV Index: 4 Moderate
Sunrise: 7:08 AM PT

Rain Overnight
Low46°F
Precip
80%
Wind: SSW 10 mph
Max. Humidity: 78%
Sunset: 7:19 PM PT


March 20th: Complains about people wondering what is taking so long.

Um, ok? What do you suggest? I've put forth the cash and the effort, what else do you want? If I could control the weather I wouldn't be posting on CP, I'd be blackmailing people out of their sweet tax dollars in exchange for not flattening their puny villages with hurricanes.

SOME MATH

Current Totals (deposit paid):
28 spline - 17
26 spline - 25

Pricing:
$325 deposit, $325 upon completion of the project ($650 total)

This includes:
MFactory helical LSD
New diff carrier bearings
Ring gear mounting bolts
Shipping


17 + 25= 42 deposits
42 deposits @ $325 a piece = $13,650

MFactory is sitting on $13,650 + my $25 sending too much so $13,675 total for our 42 deposits.


This needs to be sped up, $13,675 isn't a laughing matter and is quite serious. This HAS been going on too long. The testing has yet to start, and there is a requirement of 1 month of testing. Then any changes need to be made if there is an issue, then more testing possibly. On top of that, everybody has to pay their remaining balance and the final units are produced and it is said it will take approximately another month after final payment till we have the items in our hands.

At this point, we are talking about having everything May 20th. I paid on October 30th. In 10 days it will be 5 months since payment. With the current "plan" it will be May 20th at best that I have anything to show for my investment in my hands. You are talking about 7 months since deposit, that is, if it doesn't rain tomorrow, and there are no issues with anything.



What do I expect? I expect a legitimate explanation on Dans regards on why he has been taking so long on this. He had at least a months time between TheRielDeal receiving the LSD getting the bolt head issue resolved, and Dan finally receiving it on Feb 2nd. In this time period there is no reason that he couldn't have gotten scheduled to get the LSD installed.

Not only that, but Dan keeps claiming all of these "time frames" as for when different items are going to be completed. Don't claim something that you can not uphold to.

[Hot_Wheels]

dont loose your cool, stuff happends this is just a hobby to most of us and not a full time job, i think there should have been more then 1 tester, yeah maybe one big hp car but another for maybe a moderate car, someone who drives theres every day just to give it some endurance testing other then striclty track testing, im sure some of us whould be intrested in how the lsd handels in wet conditions ect. i commend Jon on his work to get this done and mfactory taking on the task of making this for everyone. so for now just stick your tampons in and take a midol it will all be done soon enough just my .02

[wheresthericego]

dont loose your cool, stuff happends this is just a hobby to most of us and not a full time job, i think there should have been more then 1 tester, yeah maybe one big hp car but another for maybe a moderate car, someone who drives theres every day just to give it some endurance testing other then striclty track testing, im sure some of us whould be intrested in how the lsd handels in wet conditions ect. i commend Jon on his work to get this done and mfactory taking on the task of making this for everyone. so for now just stick your tampons in and take a midol it will all be done soon enough just my .02

x2
I'm just as anxious as anyone. Has anyone taken in to consideration the expanse Dan has incurred by having a proteotype diff professionally installed? At a later date he'll still have to get the final product installed. Most of us will slap that **** in the tranny in the driveway or garage and I would be willing to bet my left nut that less than half of the people listed in the GB will properly install the bearings.
I for one don't mind the extra wait since I know it is for the better in the long run.
So fkin what if it's PM showers tomorrow. Maybe the track opens at 12 tomorrow. If anyone you have been to a dragstrip and not the industrial dead end road then you will know how difficult it is to get in several runs.
Sit back, relax, and let the people with real updates bump this thread.

[yellow2000S/R]

So fkin what if it's PM showers tomorrow. Maybe the track opens at 12 tomorrow. If anyone you have been to a dragstrip and not the industrial dead end road then you will know how difficult it is to get in several runs.
Sit back, relax, and let the people with real updates bump this thread.

There are like 6 tracks within 3 hours of me between pa, nj and md... And Im in Pennsylvania. Yea, they range in quality, but there are some that you can hot lap all night that are at least decent. Him being in California has to have better options for track selection.