did you find info for the gear swap for your 7AT, I'm interested as well....
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04-21-2012, 09:24 AM | #123 (permalink) | |
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I found this thread (and forum) via a search trying to find if the pinion sleeve and nut came with the gear set. I have had these and a quaife in my 06 350Z for over a year/10k and just started whining horribly. It started as you described. My differential was assembled by a shop that had no clue and is now out of business. They did not replace anything but the ring and pinion and apparently did not properly set the preload. It is currently at a shop that only deals in diffs, transfer cases and transmissions. As I did not want to lose my car I swapped the open base diff back in. WHAT A DIFFERENCE. Luckily it looks like there was no damage. 282.02 (with a discount) in differential rebuild parts. |
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06-28-2012, 07:11 AM | #126 (permalink) |
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After reading this thread, this is now on my short list of mods to do to the Nismo. I would imagine this would be one of the very best things to do if you're staying with straight bolt ons. I'm kind of surprised no one has come up with an ecu flash to adjust the issues with SRM (I would assume since its not a mechanical thing, this could be programmed somehow.)
Good info. (I'm gonna look and see if there are any reviews of the 4.3 FD.) |
06-29-2012, 09:35 AM | #128 (permalink) | |
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06-29-2012, 10:08 AM | #129 (permalink) |
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It seems to me if a good shop would offer installed packages there would be lots of demand. This is what happened in the S2000 community and it worked great. A quick search shows lots of doner diffs out there so getting a core isn't as bad as it was for the S2000. This allows you to buy a core and send it off to get the work done and not be down while getting the gears installed. The shop could install a good LSD while in there as well. Hopefully this has already happened and I just haven't read about it yet.
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11-28-2012, 07:32 PM | #131 (permalink) | |
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just ask the shop you have in mind how much it would cost and they should be able to help you out ON TOPIC is there a noticeable difference with taller gears? |
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11-29-2012, 11:54 PM | #133 (permalink) | |
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any real world gains by doing a mod like this? and will SRM work after this, if not than can a tune fix SRM? |
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11-30-2012, 02:08 AM | #134 (permalink) | |
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The gears (4.08s) will make you accelerate much faster. It can take off a few tenths of your quarter mile time and improve your 60' times. You will lose top end speed, meaning you can know only go to something like 180mph instead of like 200mph. Realistically I don't think any of us will ever go that fast so that's not much of a concern for me. You will lose some MPG because your RPMs will be higher (500RPMs higher) when cruising around, especially on the freeway. I personally don't mind it b/c if I was concerned about MPG I wouldn't have bought the Z in the first place. The hardest thing is keeping traction with the gears from what I read. So make sure if you upgrade the gears to have a good set of tires and a good differential (stock VLSD at the minimum). I will post more info soon when I create my review. |
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11-30-2012, 03:40 AM | #135 (permalink) | |
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Are you keeping the stock vlsd or aftermarket LSD like os given or quaife? |
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