Another GTM Install
10-26-2011, 06:44 AM
#241
ya I've had my axles off 3 or 4 times, regreased everytime and I still have all sorts of clicking noises.
i just ignore it now, but rolling around a parking lot makes it sound like the wheels are gonna fall off.
Hopefully a regrease will work for ya.
i just ignore it now, but rolling around a parking lot makes it sound like the wheels are gonna fall off.
Hopefully a regrease will work for ya.
10-26-2011, 04:47 PM
#248
One of my good friends who happens to be a master mechanic picked the car up and will drive it in to the shop tomorrow. He is going to diagnose the popping/clicking noise and install the Quaife. Rearends are his specialty. He said its too loud to be an axle. We did have the brakes and suspension done so its probably just something loose. I will report back tomorrow night. Also rented a fender rolling tool. Should be here in a couple of days.
10-26-2011, 05:52 PM
#249
One of my good friends who happens to be a master mechanic picked the car up and will drive it in to the shop tomorrow. He is going to diagnose the popping/clicking noise and install the Quaife. Rearends are his specialty. He said its too loud to be an axle. We did have the brakes and suspension done so its probably just something loose. I will report back tomorrow night. Also rented a fender rolling tool. Should be here in a couple of days.
10-29-2011, 09:55 AM
#254
Yes, the crash bar is gone. However, it is replaced by the intercooler. Unlike other FMIC's that require removal of the crash bar, ours has mounts that bolt to the frame rails and the intercooler becomes part of the vehicle structure. Also, because our FMIC is bar and plate as opposed to tube and fine, it actually has quite a bit of strength in the same direction as the original crash bar. Therefore, you won't lose structural rigidity like everyone in this thread is implying.
10-29-2011, 05:39 PM
#255
the turbos exhaust mods, fuel pump, injectors and ecu setup will prevent carb approval long before crash bar.
The california assh*le resource board doesn't really care about crash ratings of a car, that usually is something DOT etc bothers with.
10-29-2011, 10:30 PM
#257
Guys with serious cars in Cali deserve more respect than anywhere else imo lol, we have extra total bs to deal with. Even members on here (*cough* berto) start crying about stuff that isn't even half as bad as it is here.
10-30-2011, 08:08 AM
#259
Correct...
I remember my young noob 350z -tech days when I was hoping against all hope for JWT's promise for a CARB legal TT kit...and even now my Vortech kit has a snowball's chance in hell of passing smog...
I remember my young noob 350z -tech days when I was hoping against all hope for JWT's promise for a CARB legal TT kit...and even now my Vortech kit has a snowball's chance in hell of passing smog...
Last edited by 350z006; 10-30-2011 at 08:09 AM.
10-30-2011, 05:50 PM
#260
There's a giant difference between smog stuff: bring in your car hot and pass a sniffer at like 2 different rpm 'load' sites + pass scan (easy with uprev) + visual, which depending on how dumb your shop is/how many carb EO stickers you can get.
And Referee: go in after getting a ticket and they check for every damn thing to be exactly OEM, or face getting doubling in cost tickets every time a cop pulls up your plates (you get flagged in the system I hear).
And CARB: 'production' 50 state legal, costs an arm and a leg because the individual company must pay for everything. Greddy didn't go through with it on the Z either.
I'm pretty sure also why we don't get carb approved kits/they all died quick is due to the lack of non illegal tuning systems. No companys wanted to sell their 500hp turbo kits with a godd*mn split second box to blow up a few weeks later. And to be carb approved can't do injector swaps or fuel pump upgrades. So you get very limited to low boost setups. I think if companies came back with Osiris now adays they might actually get a few kits to pass.
CARB doesn't just look at the NO2/CO etc levels, they look at modification of the electronics and fuel system etc. Any actual modifications to how the computer reads the sensors etc get thrown out immediately. I'd assume it has to do with the OBDII scanning system... It's really focking stupid that error codes can cockblock a perfectly fine sniffing car BUT that's how sh*t is.
Our gov is f*cked up.